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 RUSSIA, Novosibirsk

Office: Ul. Demakova, 27/1, ZAO ‘NPP EPOS’

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Large-scale projects accomplished by and including 2013

1.1983 - 1991 - building and development of a plasma test facility rated at 20.0 MW, including two PVT-800/20, up to 2.0 KA, up to 20.0 kV.  The development and creation of a plasma gun rated at up to 18.0 МW, with operating voltage of 15.0 kV, efficiency of 92-98%, its implementation at the test facility to test fuel assemblies of nuclear rockets gas-cool reactors (with the capacity of 14.0 МW) and to test specific systems with modes from 5 seconds to 1,000 hours.

2.1990-1991: supervision of the project development at the Plasma Center of the USSR, rated at 40.0 MW by the order of S.V.Kolpakov, the Metallurgy Minister of the USSR (project budget of 6.5 Mln rubles). Responsible Participants: IMET, NIIChM, NPO ‘Tulachermet’, NSTU Department of Thermal Engineering (thermal plasma gasification reactor, meltdown drip furnace reactor, plasma furnace, plasma test facility).

3.Development of plasma guns rated at 1.5 MW to cut 1.5 m and less concrete parts and slabs have been developed (order of the Commission for Chernobyl NPP accident elimination). National Nuclear Center RK.

4.Development of plasma ore-thermal unit to simulate NPP emergency situations, 2001-2004, by the order of the Nuclear Center RK,  Kurchatov City, and MARUBENI Company (3 plasma guns, 3 electrodes for PDU, 6 sources per one unit, chamber up to 40 atm., temperature up to 2,900С, automatic control system is based on the unique algorithm to simulate uniform (residual) power distribution in the melt). The works were performed for the Nuclear Energy Institution of the National Nuclear Center RK, Kurchatov city.

5.The development of plasma vacuum systems for wear-resistant coating, our own batch production in 1990-2001.

6.The development of plasma vacuum magnetron sputter guns for heat-reflecting glass coating of 1,600x2,000 mm, our own batch production.

7.Plasma vacuum sputter guns for multy-layer and wear-resistant coating, Ekibastuz, 2 units. 1997.

8. The building of the test facility  to perform full-scale hydraulic tests on self-contained nuclear plants’ fuel assemblies. Novosibirsk Chemical Concentrates Plant (NCCP) 2004

9.Reducing furnace for thermal processing of fuel assembly’s fuel pellets, 1800С, hydrogen, argon (2 furnaces). NCCP 2005

10.    Induction furnace IST-0.15 and arc furnace DSP-1.5 for steel melting, foundry at Novosibirsk Chemical Concentrates Plant (NCCP) (upgrading).

11.    Induction furnace for pure lithium smelting with a capacity of 100 kg. Vacuum, argon, excess pressure up to 2.0 atm. 2006.

12.    An induction furnace IST-0.06 for primary metals melting, rated at 40 kW. Mobile version.

13.     Induction furnace IST-0,1 rated at 100kW. Germes Company

14.    Induction furnaces rated at 0,5 - 5,0 КW for materials science investigations (series). 2005-2011.

15.     Design development for the silicomanganese production shop rated at 45,000 tons per year. The first stage: 7,500 tons per year. Design, detailed design. Gosekspertiza. 2008-2009.

16.     Ore-smelting plasma shaft furnace RShPP-0.01 rated at 100.0 KW to produce silicomanganese. Start-up 2009. The unique characteristics.

17.    Ore-smelting plasma shaft furnace RShPP-0.25 rated at 250.0 KW to produce silicomanganese. Client: Novosibirsk State Technical Univercity, Novosibirsk. 2010.

18.     The development, building and start-up of an ore-smelting plasma shaft furnace RShPP-1.5I1 rated at 1.5 MW to produce 1 ton of silicomanganese per hour: a furnace, automatic control system, water, power and energy supply, charge supply, gas removal and conditioning. 2009 Unique characteristics. There are 4 patents.

19.    Two-operator vacuum plasma furnace, rated at 0.24 MW per an operator, to melt refractory metals and powders processing.  Electrical Technologies Center of NSTU.  Powders processing.  Powders and ingots melting with melting temperature over 3,400C. Adhesion coating of the strength higher than that of the base material. 2009.

20.      Plasma welding unit for thick copper sheets, rated at 120.0 kW with sheets thichness up to 80 mm. NSTU.

21.    Special equipment types and calculations for oil companies, 7 projects in total.

22.     Experimental equipment to simulate oil reservoirs performance, equipment and bore hole control units (2004-2011), fracturing and migration simulators, bore hole operating mechanisms placement control, engineering and calculation of radioisotopic positioning systems, experimental equipment to simulate liquid-gas mixture behaviour in bore holes.

23.    Manufacturing engineering support of 5 foundries (from equipment layout and choice to process chain start-up and follow-up, technical auditing).

24.    Manufacturing engineering support of a radioactive metal disposal foundry where certified goods are produced and sent to consumers including Finland companies (Ust-Kemenogorsk). Equipment setting and start-up, engineering support.

25.     Engineering, start-up and commissioning of IST-1.0 induction furnace, power facilities and an automatic control system for a nuclear waste processing plant ‘TOO Universal i Ka’, Ust-Kamenogorsk.

26.    Ceramic kiln design for OAO ‘NEVZ’ (Novosibirsk Electrovacuum Plant), Novosibirsk. 

27.    Steel heat-treatment furnace. Building and start-up. Novosibirsk, 2006.

28.    Induction furnace IChT-10 connection concept scheme for OAO ‘MMK’ ZAO ‘MRK’, Magnitogorsk. The calculation of electrical schemes, protection system calculation and setting.

29.     Induction furnace IChT-10’ parameters determination for OAO ‘MMK’ ZAO ‘MRK’, Magnitogorsk.

30.     Performance assessment of arc furnaces DSP-25 at OAO ‘MMK’ ZAO ‘MRK’ at equipment faults (a driver fault of one of the electrode holders, control elements).

31.    Transient analysis of the shop power lines with IChT-10 furnaces in order to present solutions for eliminating breakdowns of furnaces transformers rated at 2,500 kVA with OLTC. OAO MMK, Magnitogorsk.

32.    Technical audit and solutions on upgrading of a shop with ore thermal furnaces RKO producing silicone carbide. 2008.

33.    Technical audit and solutions on low-voltage circuit upgrading at Serov Ferro-Alloy Plant.

34.    Analysis of DS-6 applicability for foundary technology. ‘UG-FS’, Kazakhstan.

35.    Upgrading of SShO (shaft), SNVL (electrical vacuum), SNO (electrical chamber) furnaces, including power source replacement, mechanical, electrical parts and heat insulation upgrading. NSTU, Novosibirsk, AETU Department.

36.    Refractory and lining works for electrical resistance furnaces at temperatures up to 1,780C.

37.     Design and building of a new equipment set (AKOS) for secondary steel refining rated at 1.0 MW, including ladles of 5.0 tons, a plasma heater, an electromagnetic and gas-dynamic  mixer, a dosing system, pinch rolls, top and bottom blowing, including gas and powder mixtures, plasma blowing, shutter closing etc., as well as nanocomposite dopant systems (2009-2010). The development of an up-to-date technology for melting and integrated processing of a new production line for import-substituting heavy duty and wear-resistant steels, as an alternative for manganese steel G13L.

38.    Expert engineering opinions on 4 metallurgical and ferro-alloy plants with output volume of up to 240,000 tons per year were composed.

39.    Ten small-size experimental units up to 40 kW of various applications:  Vacuum-arc remelting, vacuum-plasma remelting, electroslag remelting, three IST induction furnaces, 4 resistance furnaces etc. are to perform inhouse D&D on our own experimental basis.

40.    The development of two furnaces for high-temperature ceramics sintering in shielding and reducing atmosphere at the temperature up to 1800С. 2006.

41.    Calculation and engineering of an electrical enamel roasting furnace rated at 1,300 kW. 2007 Novokuznetsk.

42.    Calculation and engineering of a gas enamel drying furnace rated at 600 kW. 2011. Novokuznetsk.

43.    Calculation and engineering of a gas enamel roasting furnace rated at up to 1,500 kW. Metal ceramics gas furnaces re-design. Calculation of thermal fields, gas dynamics, heat exchange, evaporation and condensing, and recovery processes. Working area and routines ergonomic solutions. 2010-2011.

44.    Calculations to optimize ceramics furnaces modes. Novokuznetsk, 2011 – 2012.

45.    An electroslag furnace to produce tool steel and low-alloy ingots with the weight of up to 200 kg. 2011. Biysk.

46.    Electroslag melting furnace to fine-tune the radiocative metals decontamination technology. Tomsk, 2010.

47.    Melting and sintering induction unit, 2-40 kHz for high-temperature materials processing. SO RAN (Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science). 2011.

48.     Shop survey, preparation of design specifications and the development of the shop concept design with steel founding volume of up to 15,000 tons per year. 2010-2011.

49.    Production and start-up or steel electroslag founding units with centrifugal casting up to 1.0 ton. 2010-2011. Kemerovo, Barnaul etc.

50.    Small-capacity DSP upgrading projects were performed at refractory lining service-life increase to over 300 casts, 30-60% increase of furnace capacity (for furnaces with a capacity of 3-50 tons). Furnaces upgrading was performed according to the projects with the set results achieved. 2009-2010.

51.    DSP-6 control system upgrading. It was equipped with new control and data collection systems. Furnace data collection and processing scheme was designed, produced and implemented.  2010-2011.

52.    Gas removal and conditioning design for the shop with three metallurgical machines (two DSP and АКОS) was performed, 2010.

53.    The design of an electroslag melting shop for two ESF, 700 kg each, was performed.

54.    The development of a ferro-alloy production technology for FSA grade, with 1.4-times energy use reduction. PDU scheme for FSA production was developed.

55.    Development, building and start up of an induction vacuum furnace with a cold crucible rated at 100.0 KW.  Moscow, 2011.

56.    Innovation platform to produce nanomaterials for metallurgy was established in NSTU. 2010-2011. Equipment set and technologies for production and processing of nanopowders and articles made therfrom was created. Melting and grinding equipment, plasma evaporators, vacuum plasma implanters, plasma surface processing, electrophoresis, induction and plasma sintering, etc. 2009-2013.

57.    Development of the technology of thick metal film coating of nanoceramics. Coating metals: copper, stainless steel, tantalum, niobium and other metals including metal nanopowders. Thick coating of a ceramic substrate (100-800 micron) is performed at the regulated speed of 0.1-500 micron per second. Adhesive strength is 23.2 MPa, tearing-off takes place in the ceramics area, there is no delamination. The project was ordered by NEVZ. 2011-2012.

58.    The foundry design for Krasnoyarsk plant was developed for the production of up to 10,000 tons for such products as general purpose industrial steel, high-quality heat-resistant steel, and aluminium castings. Advanced technologies and equipment, including scientific and production enterprises’ ones, were used: arc and plasma furnaces, induction crucible - including vacuum ones, electroslag furnaces, secondary steel refining units, more than five types of cast product forming. 2012.

59.    The development of an upgrade project for three thermal ore furnaces RKO-9 for Novokuznetsk enterprise. Furnaces’ capacity increase up to 14.0 MVA.  Parameters calculation, furnace configuration, low-voltage circuit with a transformer.

60.    Calculations and project development for ore thermal furnaces RKO-9 gas removal. Efficient filters operation within the performance range - up to 150C was provided at the change-over to transformers 14.0 MVA.

61.    The manufacturing of a low-voltage circuit for two furnaces RKO-14 to reach the current of 50 kA, with gas removal, cooling and charging pipes systems’ upgrading.

62.    The development of offers, schemes and algorithms to automate ferro-alloys production process with the furnace of 14.0 MVA, from charging hoppers to ladle pouring, PCS proposals’ preparation.

63.     The establishment of an inhouse floor and development of thick copper plates welding technology to produce low-voltage circuits, crystallizers, large-size electrical furnaces’ bus tubes, flexible current leads. 2013.

64.    The establishment of an inhouse research shop to fine-tune metallurgical technologies (2013):

- plasma shaft ferro-alloy furnace;

- electroslag melting and founding unit;

- induction crucible and induction vacuum furnaces;

- induction plasma furnace;

- integrated steel processing machine;

- fully equipped briquetting area for pilot production of metallurgical briquetts and briquett production and composition technology fine-tuning (with penetration).

Processing of orders from enterprises to develop penetration technologies.

65.     The development of an electroslag remelting and founding shop (2013) with the output of 2,500 tons of ingots per year on the bases of in-house equipment and technologies.

66.    A turn-key project on construction and start-up of an ESR and ESF shop: civil works, communications, equipment production. Ingots with the weight of up to 7 tons for shafts, gears, with the diameter of up to 2 meters at centrifugal casting. The unique inhouse technology and original equipment layout. 2013.

67.     Proposal development on the high-quality lithium metal production trends for further use at power source manufacturing, for OAO ‘TVEL’. The development and transfer of the project with the business model, choice of production types and products, profitability travel path for the specified trend. The working out of proposals and conditions about the transfer of the above mentioned enterprise to our company for external management (2012-2013).

68.    The development of the foundry’s draft design, preparation of the program of an innovative development of founding technologies for ‘TRUD’ Plant, preparation of the investment plan and scheme within the frames of national innovative projects’ support programs. November, 2012.

69.    The development of the production process based on the use of a plasma shaft furnace to perform commercially viable titaniferous ore treatment and provide profitable production. 2010-2013.

70.    The development of an offer to create Novosibirsk Engineering Center of Metallurgical Competences at the premises of Novosibirsk State Technical Univercity. Activity in the field of development of viable (not virtual) technology centers for advanced metallurgical technologies, including production of high-quality steels, pure materials, metal powders (including nanopowders) and powder-based composites. 2013.

71.     The development of a mini-metallurgical plant project (cistomized) on the basis of plasma technologies for highly renumerative production of qualitative iron-based steels. 2009-2013.

72.    Projects in progress:

- project design for the machine engineering plant foundry on 3,000 tons per year;

- project design for the electroslag melting foundry floor on 3,000 ton per year;

- project design for the electoslag melting shop on 2,000 tons per year,

- project design for the foundry on 16,000 tons per year;

73.    In 2013 over 30 technical and commercial proposals were made in response to enterprises’ requests on metallurgical and machine engineering production facilities establishment and equipment manufacturing. Three applications and buisness proposals were prepared in cooperation with large-scale finantial institutions on the topic of development project budgeting for the total amount of 80 Bln roubles.

74.    The enterprise is awarded with medals for technologies and equipment at the international shows in Seoul, Paris, Geneva, Casablanca in 2008-2012. Ore-smelting plasma furnace and smelting technology received several golden medals at various exhibitions, including International Show in Casablanca, 2011.

75.    There are over 16 golden and silver medals and awards from international shows and fairs.  It is entitled as The Best small-size enterprise of the region in the field of industrial production and innovational activity in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, being awarded the prise ‘Zolotoy Merkuriy’ by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

76.    There are over 230 calculational and experimental projects performed:       

- heat exchange and heat transfer (in liquids, gases, in solids, including multy-layer heat protection, in rare media and vacuum, multiphase heat exchange in water, vapor, charging and suspended solid particles);

- gas dynamics (in liquids, gases, with suspended particles and boiling layer, in rare media and vacuum);

- electromagnetic fields (inductance and mutual inductance calculation, electromagnetic heating, electromagnetic transportation, rare media path with overlapping fields);

- electrical and electrodynamic calculations and plasma, mechanical calculation of static and dynamic systems: parts, blocks and machines, complicated spacial systems, including those at heating and external mechanical impact;

- calculations and models of thermal electrical, phisical, chemical and metallurgical, aerodynamic processes to perform metallurgical (including ore smelting) melting and industrial waste disposal;

- electrochemical and chemical calculations: at electrical treatment, electrolysis, during metallurgical processes (including ore smelting);

- business models calculations for industrial enterprises and production facilities.

On the basis of the calculations performed the corresponding systems and equipment was build and now is being operated, existing enterprises are being designed and established.

77.    There are over 120 patents on technologies and equipment, and over 460 published works.