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DelIvery Order #06
Task 2 Power Plants Combusllon EfficIency
Busmess Trip Report.
Penod: May 26 - 28. 1997
Desllnallon: Burshtyn Thermal Power Plant
Completed by: Alexander Filippov,
Burns and Roe Kiev ResIdent Engineer
May 30,1997
Dunng the period from May 26 through May 28 I Vlslted Burshtyn Thermal
Power Plant. The purposes ofthe tnp were:
1) To sIgn letters of recelVlng for the equipment supplIed by USAID/Burns and
Roe
2) To schedule a start-up VlSlt of ZIRTEK and INSTROMET compames
techrucal representatives.
3) To teach the plant staffhow to operate the supplied energy eqUlpment.
During the meellng with Mr. Bozenenkov. Deputy director on foreIgn relations he
expressed rus sallsfaction by the fact of recelvmg the equipment. But he stressed
that the plant was facIng serious dIfficulties related Wlth the majOr lack offunds
The main reason IS non-payments for electncity. The plant doesn't get paId,
although tills is one ofthe largest power plants in UkraIne and even sells
electnclty abroad. The plant has bIg debt on wages for its workers. Since
November 1996 the employees have been paId from 30 to 40% oftherr monthly
wages.
On Tuesday. May 27. we had a techmcal mee1lng and diSCUSSlOn of chfferent
quesllons related to Installation of oxygen analyzer ZIRTEK. Meeting was
headed by Mr. Mallevsky. Cruef of control eqUlpment department, 12 specialISts
particIpated. By the time of my VlSlt the plan only had opened the boxes Wlth the
eqUlpment and hadn't studIed the manuals yet. So the meellng turned to be a
"bram storm" over different techrucal aspects of oxygen analyzer mstallation.
The speCIaliSts determined the boiler and the points ofinstallallon. responsIble
persons and general prelimmary steps ofwork. I explained neceSSIty to fimsh
mstallallon by the end of June. 1997, in order for the ZIRTEK representallve to
complete start-up ofthe analyzer. Mr. Mallevsky and other managers proIIl1sed
to make their best to fimsh mstallahon in hme.
We dIscussed the Issue of gas chromatograph installation Tills queshon was
very difficult. It looked like the plant had dIfferent reasons not to mstall It at the
hme bemg. FIrst. the system of payment for gas has changed smce the deCISIon
of mstallatlon of gas chromatograph (calonmeter) was made. Now the plant pays
for the volume of receIved gas and for Its "average. contract" calones Dunng last
1.5 years they have not regIstered the calones content lower that contracted. only
on the contrary. So they were reluctant to mstall the deVlce wruch can "make"
them to pay addItional money for the gas. The second reason ofbemg reluctant