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Rybinsk Motors, JSC

Rybinsk Engine-Building Design Bureau

152903 Rybinsk
Yaroslavl region, Russia
Tel: (0855) 243-100
Fax: (0855) 262-398

Saturn-Gas Turbines JSC Volzhsky Machine-Building Plant Volga Engineering Plant Volga Machinery Plant [VMZ] Machinery Plant #1

Russia, 152914, Yaroslavl Region, 
Rybinsk, 16, Tolbukhina Str. 
Phone: +7 (4855) 205-365 
Fax: +7 (4855) 205-365 

http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_url?doit=done&tt=url&intl=1&fr=bf-home&trurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gt.npo-saturn.ru%2F&lp=ru_en&btnTrUrl=Translate Joint-Stock Company "Saturn-Gas Turbines" is subsidiary company of "NPO "Saturn". It is situated on the base of former "Volzhsky Machine-Building Plant" JSC, Rybinsk. Joint stock company "Saturn - gas turbines" - the daughterly company OF [NPO] "Saturn", was created in November 2006. The company is an integrator and complex supplier of highly effective ground-based power machinery equipment for the needs of joint stock company "Gazprom". The enterprise is a supplier of high-quality piping accessories, optional equipment for Russian enterprises, scientific centers and atomic power-plants (APP). This includes piping accessories for nuclear- fuel cycle enterprises; piping accessories for atomic power-plants (APP); piping accessories for industry purposes; and optional equipment for radioactive substance, transportation and long-term storage of spent nuclear fuel. In 1936 "Machinery Plant #1" was created for the production and repair of construction equipment of the first cascade of hydroelectric power plants in the Volga. In 1953 the plant was renamed the Volga Machinery Plant ([VMZ]). In 1965 the VMZ became part of the Ministry of Medium Machine-building (subsequently [preobrazovannoe] into the RF Ministry of Atomic Energy) and was further developed as machine-building enterprise, which specialized in the production of pipeline accessories, non-standard, sometimes unique equipment for the enterprises and the scientific centers of the branch, and also for the Russian atomic power plants concern "Rosenergoatom", production association Mayak ["lighthouse"], "Machine Building Plant of Electric Steel, mining and chemical combines, the institute of nuclear research Dubna, the institute im.I.V.Kurchatov and others) - chamber equipment, sorption columns, heat exchangers, capacities of different designation, technological lines for the radiochemical productions, special load-lifting equipment. In 1974 VMZ was rewarded with the Order of the Banner of Honor. Volzhsky Machine-Building Plant is not the Volzhsky Pipe Plant (town of Volzhsky, Volgograd region), which is Russia's largest producer of pipes. It is one of the machine building, metallurgical and pipe plants manufacturing equipment for Gazprom's needs. The Russian machine building sector currently faces the challenge of turning out high-tech gas industry equipment. Moreover, the output quality should fit with the highest standards and allow Russian firms to win competitive contracts and supply their products both to Gazprom and abroad. It is our machine builders that are primarily responsible for meeting this multifaceted challenge. For small power engineering is mastered the production of gas-turbine power facilities on the base of the turbines with a power of 2, 5, 6 and 8[MVt]. The total power of gas-turbine power stations can reach 80[MVt]. Power facilities work in simple, steam-gas "[PGU]" and central heating "[GTES]" cycles. Total efficiency during the production of thermal and electrical energy reaches 85%. The prime cost of the manufactured energy is 2-3 times cheaper than the price of the traditional suppliers of heat- and the electric power. Data of proposal are now claimed in the market for the petroleum-extracting and petroleum refining industry, by energy-consuming industrial enterprises, and also on the market ZhKKh with the large seasonal consumption of thermal energy. Being the remote power supplies of heat- and of electric power, the contemporary power plants "of Saturn", integrated into the electrical and thermal distribution networks, make it possible to decrease the dependence ZhKKh on the influence of energy-supplier - monopolist, to increase the quality of the exerted services, and to also decrease expenditures for the supply of the district and urban housing and utilities enterprises of heat- and by electric power. It is worthwhile to note that the power facilities of joint stock company "Saturn - gas turbines" are characterized by compactness, short period of production and installation (from 9 to 15 months), comparatively low specific cost and short payback period capital investments. the Block- container performance [GTES] makes it possible to maximally draw nearer the production of heat- and electric power directly the place of consumption, after avoiding in this case energy losses in the stage of transport. To order joint stock company "Gazprom", "by Saturn" are let out the gas-pumping aggregates of the fourth generation - GPa -4[Rm]. Data of GPa are the contemporary automatically controlled complex, which works in the regime "uninhabited" technology. The system of automatic control (SAU) ensures remote control and protection GPa from the maximum basic parameters in all operating modes. On the base GTD (gas-turbine engine) -4[Rm] are developed and are supplied highly effective GPa by the power of 6,3[MVt] and 10[MVt]. According to their technical and mass-and-size characteristics the data of GPa completely satisfy the demands of joint stock company "Gazprom". To order the enterprises of the Federal agency in nuclear energy RF joint stock company "Saturn - gas turbines" is fixed the production of an enormous standardly designated number of pipeline accessories for AES. The deliveries of pipeline accessories and optional equipment are achieved into C.P.R. (Chinese Peoples' Republic) and India to the constructed nuclear plants. In last year, besides the traditional steel framework, the production of titanium articles for AES, which use sea water, for the cooling is mastered.

In 2001 the merger of Rybinsk Motors JSC and A.Lyulka-Saturn JSC formed NPO Saturn JSC. Rybinsk Motors JSC was a diversified joint stock company. Rybinsk Motors JSC is a diversified engine manufacturing company. The company features a developed infrastructure, mature power generating and transportation facilities and retains centralized management.

In 1997 Rybinsk Motors JSC merged with Rybinsk Engine-Building Design Bureau. Starting of gas-turbine engines production for power generation and gas industries. In 1998, in accordance with the RF Government order, the company became the prime manufacturer for development, production and overhaul of gas-turbine engines for unmanned air vehicles.

In 1999 Volzhsky Machine-Building Plant formed a part of Rybinsk Motors JSC. In June 2000, the Rybinskiye Motory annual shareholders' meeting replaced the company's management. Veniamin Mezhibovsky, the former director of Volzhsky Machine-building plant, became Rybinskiye Motory's executive director. Rosaviakosmos Management Chief Yury Dmitriyev became the state's representative on the Rybinskiye Motory board of directors. It is situated in the city of Rybinsk, formerly Andropov, on the bank of the Volga River in the central part of Russia. The city of Rybinsk has a distinctive and interesting history. The town of Rybinsk had grown from a small settlement in the 11th centuries into Rybolovetsky Slobodka in the XVI-XVIII centuries, then turned into a large trade and shipment centre on the Upper Volga in the XIX century and has become a large highly developed industrial modern city. From the second half of the XIX c. the city of Rybinsk features an intensive growth of industry. In 1853, the Zhuravlevs merchants opened the rope-spinning yard, along with it grounding flour and shipbuilding production were developing rapidly. In the pre-war period new large industrial plants producing aviation materiel, printing equipment and other machine-building production were built. In the autumn of 1942, the Rybinsk hydroelectric power station began to produce electricity for the first time which supplied besieged Moscow with electricity. At present a powerful system of locks connects the Volga with the largest reservoir in Europe from which one can pass through to the Baltic and White Seas.

For 70 years the key activity of the company has been the production of aircraft engines. The Rybinsk Motors engines power about 1100 aircraft of 160 airlines of Russia and foreign countries. More than 4500 aircraft engines are in operation now. The other company business directions are production of industrial power plants of large output, diesel engines and snowmobiles, special-purpose vehicles, equipment for nuclear power, non-standardized equipment and valves, as well as household and industrial appliances. Rybinsk Motors JSC has developed high-tech production facilities: stock shops, foundry, forging shops, tool production, machine, assembly, heat treatment, wood-working, electroplating shops, paint and varnishing shops, test cells.

Up-to-date design technologies are being mastered at the enterprise. They are the key to development of new-generation engineering. Quality and reliability of Rybinsk Motors products are quaranteed by new aviation technologies. General statements of quality system are certified to ISO 9000 International Standards. Close business cooperation between Russian aircraft engine manufacturers and a number of leading foreign companies has proved in action its mutual advantage and much promise. Highly-skilled staff is the objective of the Company in any activity: from top executives to engineers and shop floor workers.

In 1997 the enterprise was combined with Rybinsk Engine- Building Design Bureau, creating a solid base for achieving a more technically sophisticated production level. NPO Saturn has at its disposal the most powerful in Russia R&D basis for gas-turbine equipment development. All this has become possible thanks to incorporation of the leading Russian aircraft engine design schools within NPO Saturn, with intake of the most experienced Russian specialists. Experimental Design Bureau No.1 (Rybinsk) is engaged in defining general principles of the engineering policy of the Company and R&D directions, development of civil aircraft engines, and industrial gas-turbine engines.

Rybinsk Motors is a leading Russian manufacturer of aircraft engines. Rybinsk Motors supplies engines for nearly 60% of Russian middle- and long-range aircraft and for over 80% of military transport planes. Research centers on creating a low emission combustion chamber for Tu-154M in accordance to ICAO requirements, developing TVD-1500 (turboprop and gas turbine engine) for An-38 and T-701 "Grach", RD-600B for Ka-62 helicopter and DH-200 (diesel engine) for small aircraft.

The company produces by-pass turbojet D30KP (thrust rating up to 12,000 kgf), installed on? IL-76 aircraft and its modifications (civilian - IL-76T and IL-76TD; military - IL-76M and IL-76MD; special purpose aircraft -? zero-g flying simulator IL-76MDK; fire-fighting IL-76TP; refueler aircraft IL-78). The engine has undergone several modernizations during the years of exploitation. The A-40 multipurpose amphibian aircraft? designed to fight submarines in the nearest sea zone is equipped with two?? D-30KPV engines (D-30KP engine modification). The A-50 aircraft was developed from the IL-76MD; it is equipped with a radio-electronic system intended for long-range target detection, tracking and missile guidance. The specifications of this modification are compatible with the AWACS E3 Sentry American analog.

The factory has signed several large contracts for manufacture of ground oil and gas pumping stations. The sales in the nine months of 1997 exceeded 875 billion roubles (approximately. $146 million). In spite of the general depression, Rybinks Motors is busy with orders for the overhaul and manufacturing of engines and has direct support of Incombank and Gazprom. In 1997 the factory established a joint venture with General Electric to produce engines for small passenger aircraft and helicopters of T-7 type and LM-2500 for gas pumping stations.

Rybinsk Motors JSC is involved in continuous improvement of its engines' operating performance. To meet the requirements of an operator, the company is ready to perform certain measures during the repair improving the engine reliability, efficiency and operating performance. Provision of the electronic turbine rotor overspeed protection system which allows to eliminate the engine turbine overspeeding above the maximum permissible rpm and the turbine failure at disengagement of the shafts.

Provision of the closed drainage system which allows to eliminate fuel discharge to the atmosphere, and fuel return to the fuel system provides fuel economy (about 18.4 t per 5,000 h of operation); Equipping the D-30KU-154, D-30KU-2 engines with acoustic panels (sound-absorbing constructions) allows to reduce the noise level in compliance with international environmental protection standards. Thus, it is possible to carry out landing at any country of the world without penal sanctions; Equipping the D-30KU-154 engines with the thrust reverser whose doors have sloping ribs providing the reverse jet deflection from the fuselage which protects the engine inlet from foreign object ingestion and from gas impact on the fuselage.

Introduction of structural improvements on new engines and repaired ones allows to extend the D-30KU-154 assigned service life up to 15,000 h and the D-30KP-2 assigned service life up to 9,000 h; During its life cycle any engine purchased or repaired at Rybinsk Motors JSC is traced by the Operation and Maintenance Department. Specialists of the department carry out guarantee and post-guarantee repair of aircraft engines in operation as well as implement measures improving engine reliability and specified life between overhauls.

Rybinsk Motors, based some 400 km north of Moscow, was to manufacture the AL-41F, a fifth generation engine for military aircraft, and its derivatives for civil applications. The agreement was signed on 18 September 1998 by the manufacturer, Rybinsk Motors, the AL-41F developer, Lulka-Saturn, Defence Ministry and the administrations of Moscow City and Yaroslav region. It calls for prompt finishing of development and putting into production of the new engine for next-generation combat aircraft. Setting up a full-scale production line at can take from three to four years, requiring investments worth Rbs 2 billion. But in 2000, in accordance with the RF Government order, NPO Saturn became the prime manufacturer of the fifth-generation aircraft engines.