POLZUNOV SCIENTIFIC AND DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION ON RESEARCH AND DESIGN OF POWER EQUIPMENT (NPO CKTI) MAINTAINING THE CUTTING EDGE OF NUCLEAR INDUSTRY

This publication intends to familiarize those interested in the history of national atomic industry with the R&D landmarks contributed by a Russia’s leading engineering centre — I. I. Polzunov Central Boiler-Turbine Institute. This may also be of interest, since works performed by us have not lost their signifi cance to present, as they comprise a solid knowledgebase for both current and future generations of nuclear power equipment.

The publication covers the period from 1945 (when NPO CKTI was fi rst involved in the USSR Nuclear Project) and to present. We have contributed to a widest range of power equipment — steam generators for plants equipped with pressurizedwater reactors or fast breeders; steam generators for marine nuclear energy installations (NEI); separator-superheaters for nuclear plant (NP) turbines; NP and NEI heat exchanges for space applications; reactor process channels; transportation and storage containers for spent fuel of water-cooled or gas-cooled NPs; and many more.

At our unique facilities (with the capacity of up to 10 MWt), we have researched a very wide range of physical processes — heat transfer, hydraulics, hydrodynamics, steam separation, and endurance.

Continually, we work to intensify such processes, increase their reliability, improve forecasting, and extend the equipment lives.

For this article, we used NPO CKTI publications, reports and projects, some of them being now mentioned for the fi rst time, as the secrecy regime prevented such publications in the time when the related works were in progress. If you would like to learn more details, please use the list of sources attached hereto. 

1. Petrenya Yu. K., Fedorovich E. D. Participation of the Central boiler and turbine Institute in the Atomic project of USSR in the period 1945 – 1954 years (historical sketch). In collection «CKTI Proceedings», iss 282, «Atomic power engineering», by ed B. I. Nigmatulin, Yu. K. Petreny, E. D. Fedorovich, St. Petersburg, 2002. With 64 – 74.

2. NPO CKTI Pages of history. Documents. Memories. By ed. by V. E. Mikhailov. Td by SPb Polytechnic University St. Petersburg, 2010. 371 p.

3. I. I. Polzunov NPO CKTI – 85. Years, events, personalities. Vol. 2. By ed. By Mikhailov V. E. St. Petersburg, 2012. 434 p.

4. Sudakov A. V., Legkostupova V. V. Moisture separator-reheaters of foreign companies. Saint-Petersburg. Td by SPb Polytechnic University. 2015. 103 p.

5. Kutateladze S. S., Borishansky V. M., Novikov, I. I., Fedynsky O. S. Liquid metal heat carriers. Atomizdat. Moscow. 1958. 206 p.

6. Andreev P. A., Gremilov D. I., Fedorovich E. D. Heat exchangers of nuclear installations. Second ed, reworked and added, by ed of D. Sc., Prof. N. M. Sinev, Ed. «Sudostroenie». Leningrad, 1969. 352 p.

7. Leader of a team game. (About Gromov B. F.). Memories. FEI, 2007. 204 p.

8. Half of century in atomic industry. Collection of papers by ed of Mitenkov M. F. Ed. Kitizdat, N. Novgorod, 1997. 304 p.

9. Sudakov A. V., Trofi mov A. S. Tasks of non-stationary heat and mass transfer. Moscow. Td by Atomenergoizdat. 2005. 232 p.

10. Petrenja Yu. K., Sudakov A. V., Ivanov B. N., Nefediev E. Yu., Chemikov O. G., Ananiev A. N., Makushkin A. V., Kuznecov A. G. Technique of technical diagnosis and prolongation of design life of vessels and heat exchangers of the systems important for safety of power units of LNNP with reactors RBMK. RD EO 0478-03. Sosnovyj Bor – SaintPetersburg. 2003. 88 p.

11. Lebedev V. I., Chemikov O. G., Ananiev A. N., Sudakov A. V., Zhemchugov V. G., Kalinin V. G., Kulikova G. G. The prolongation of design life of power units of LNNP. M. Td by Atomenergoizdat. 2006. 528 p.