Modular design of steam turbines

Abstract

The key areas of steam turbine construction development are the issues of improving the tools and means of development, production, operation and managing the life cycle (LC) of the main and auxiliary equipment.Observations show that measures to improve the pre-production and actual manufacturing are often carried out separately without a common idea, with different approaches, tools and solutions, which leads to duplication of work, lack of a common line of development to the goal and sometimes incompatibility. Irrational and uneven problem solving should change in favor of a systematic approach to the development of the enterprise, its products and product LC management tools.The "dead end" of extreme unification, typification and standardization restricts and stops the development of products and their production; therefore, a new idea is needed that allows for a unified systematic approach to development and growth (up to explosive growth) against the background of stalled competitors. A new idea or ideology may be the methodological application of the modular principle of creating equipment with simultaneous digital transformation of the enterprise, which should be implemented with methodological and administrative support for the transition of the turbine enterprise from the "old" approaches to the "new" ones.The application of an integrated approach to the implementation of the modular principle with simultaneous digital transformation of turbine enterprises opens up wide opportunities for enhancing competitiveness, and further operating activities using such a concept will lead to the company’s explosive growth. The new concept will allow the development and improvement of steam turbines and turbine equipment using approaches and technical solutions, achieving high technical, economic and operational indicators with reduced costs for design and engineering preparation of production and manufacture of equipment, as well as with minimal time and financial costs to carry out reconstruction and maintenance of equipment by changing modules.