Summary

International standards for power generating equipment follow the logic of standardization systems, while requirements for specific equipment serve to complement the more general requirements. For a specific application, this is their advantage and disadvantage. No single document exists to fully cover the requirements that customers and manufacturers need. When used for technical proposals and contracts, they require the use of a large number of standards, which is inconvenient for both manufacturers and customers.

Meanwhile, international standards do not make provision for the operational considerations and specific requirements applicable to the power generating equipment in the Unified Power

Grid of the Russian Federation [1, 2], including the reliability and operational stability requirements defined by the grid operator (System Operator of the United Power System JSC).

When international standards are adopted as national standards, coherence with the existing national standards may be lost. One example of such ill-conceived application of international standards is the introduction of GOST IEC 60034-3-2015 standards as an intergovernmental standard identical to IEC 60034-3:2020 [3].

To improve the situation with respect to requirements for turbogenerators, TC 333 Rotating

Electrical Machines, a technical committee of Rosstandard, decided to develop a new national standard that would define extended technical specifications for turbogenerators covering both international and domestic requirements for these machines.

In accordance with the Russian National Standardization Program for 2022/23, Rosstandard’s

Technical Committee TC 333 prepared and adopted a new standard, GOST R 70940–2023[4].

Rotating electrical machines. Turbogenerators. General Specifications. This paper highlights the key features of the newly introduced Standard and looks into how it corresponds to the requirements of IEC 60034-3 and IEEE C50.13 [5] international standards.

Additional informations

Publication type Session Materials
Reference A1_11244_2026
Publication year
Publisher CIGRE
Country Russian Federation
Study committees
File size 149 KB
Price for non member 30 €
Price for member 30 €

Authors

KADI-OGLY* Evgeny - AAEM, TC 333; KOROVKIN Nikolay - SPbPU; LASHUKOV Aleksandr - AAEM, TC 333; KUZ’MICHEV Vladimir - Hydroproject; ROYTGARTS* Mikhail - Power Machines; GRISHIN Nikolai - Power Machines; CHESTYUNIN Roman - ELSIB; GRIGOR’EV Anatoliy - UralEnergoEngineering; SERGIEVSKIY Yuriy - MPEI; SIZOV Nikolay - Forward Energ; SOKUR Pavel - Rosseti R&D Center; SMETANYUK Yuriy - Inter RAO Engineering

Keywords

turbogenerator, harmonization of standards, technical requirements

A Modern Russian Standard for Turbogenerators