Two moisture separator-reheaters sent to Belarusian nuclear power plant

The Russian mechanical engineering company ZiO-Podolsk, which is part of Atomenergomash, the mechanical engineering division of the Russian state nuclear power engineering corporation Rosatom, has sent the third and fourth sets of moisture separator-reheaters to the Belarusian nuclear power plant, the Atomenergomash press service told BelTA.

Each set comprises a separator and two moisture reheaters. They are intended for the first power-generating unit of the Belarusian nuclear power plant. The weight of the manufactured products totals 422 tonnes.

The moisture separator-reheaters are meant to dry and reheat moist vapor. They are designed as vertical apparatuses made of three parts in one shell. The service life is 50 years. The technical designs have been developed by the engineering company ZIOMAR (part of Rosatom’s Atomenergomash). ZIOMAR specialists oversee the equipment’s production and supervised installation.

Atomenergomash enterprises supply virtually all the key equipment pieces that nuclear power plants with the VVER-1200 type reactors need. The product choice includes reactors and core catchers, pipelines, steam generators, main circulatory pumps, cooling pumps and other kinds of equipment.

In 2016 ZiO-Podolsk will make and supply four sets of moisture separator-reheaters as well as accompanying components in addition to a bubble condenser for the second power-generating unit of the Belarusian nuclear power plant. In 2015 the Russian enterprise supplied a bubble condenser and two moisture separator-reheaters for the first unit of the nuclear power plant located near the Belarusian town of Ostrovets.

ZiO-Podolsk is a major manufacturer of heat exchange equipment for fuel and energy infrastructure installations such as nuclear and heat power plants, oil and gas industry enterprises.

The Belarusian nuclear power plant is a project to build an AES-2006 type nuclear power plant 18km away from Ostrovets, Grodno Oblast. The nuclear power plant will have two power-generating units with the total output capacity of up to 2,400MW (2x1,200MW). In line with the general contract for building the nuclear power plant the first power-generating unit is scheduled for commissioning in 2018, with the second one to go online in 2020.