81 700m 400MW Class Ultrahighhead Pump （81 700 400 mw级Ultrahighhead泵）.pdfVIP

Hitachi Review Vol. 49 (2000), No. 2 81 700-m 400-MW Class Ultrahigh-head Pump Turbine Kozo Ikeda OVERVIEW: The first unit of the world-leading ultrahigh-head pump turbine Morihito Inagaki was commissioned in December 1999 at the Tokyo Electric Power Company Kazuo Niikura (TEPCO)’s Kazunogawa pumped-storage power plant in Japan. This paper describes several state-of-the-art technologies applied to the hydraulic and Katsuhiro Oshima mechanical designs, which ensure the pump turbine’s high reliability and stable operation. Kazunogawa; vertical Francis-type single-stage reversible pump turbine, turbine head 728 m, output 412 MW, maximum pumping head 779 m, speed 500 min-1. INTRODUCTION strength reliability and high hydraulic performance. ELECTRICITY is mostly produced by thermal and Furthermore, several tests were conducted with actual nuclear power in Japan. For the purpose of shaving size components to confirm the performance and the peak and the bottom load in the power grid, over durability of the components under severe conditions. 40 pumped-storage power plants have been built in Field tests of the No. 1 Unit of Kazunogawa Power Japan since the first reversible pump turbine was put Station verified that the sound and vibration levels are into operation at the Oomorigawa Power Station in lower than those of the conventional 500-m, 300-MW 1959. The higher the pumping head, the smaller the class pump t