SUMMARY
Significant experience in analysis, research, and developments as applied to large steam-turbine units of fossil-fuel and nuclear power plants, both serviced and designed, especially in reference to their transients, automated control, monitoring, and technical diagnostics
SCIENTIFIC & TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE:
2003 – presently FREELANCE CONSULTANT
- Advised and lectured on steam turbine design and operation for specialists of diverse countries, including India (NTPC and CPRI), Korea (Doosan, KEPCO and KEPRI) and Israel (IEC)
- Participated in developing diverse automated surveillance systems for steam turbines in service
- Go on contributing to power engineering magazines March, 2000 – 2002 Energy-Tech magazine of Magellan, Inc. CONTRIBUTING EDITOR
- Led a bimonthly column entitled “Turbine DOM (Design, Operation & Maintenance)” January, 1998 – October, 1999 Electric Power International magazine of The McGraw-Hill Co. CONTRIBUTING EDITOR
- Led a section of Technology Briefs March, 1997 – 2002 Actinium Corp., St. Louis, MO/Mountain View, CA CHIEF CONSULTANT, Power Engineering Section
- Participated in developing some data acquisition systems for power plants in service
- Contributed to US/Russian technology exchanges in power engineering June, 1994 – July, 1996 Washington University in St. Louis, MO VISITING SCHOLAR, Department of Mechanical Engineering
- Was developing knowledge bases for transients of large power steam turbines
- Prepared the lecture course on steam turbines for post-graduate students
- Led seminars on power steam turbines and their cyclic operation for power plant specialists
1962-1994 All-Russia (former All-Union) Thermal Engineering Research Institute, Moscow
CHIEF/ LEADING/ SENIOR SPECIALIST, Department of Power Plant’s General Problems
- (1973 – January, 1994):
- Analyzed and researched operation quality of power plant units in service
- Examined design of steam turbines for new power plant units and projects of their automated
control and information systems - Created methodology for research of steam turbine transients based on combination of field tests
and mathematical modeling, as well as technological basis for steam turbine start-up automation - Headed the national program on technical diagnostics of fossil-fuel power plant’s main equipment;
in particular, developed the Interstate Standard on general requirements on diagnosibility of main
thermal-mechanical equipment of power plant units - Participated in field tests of 250, 300, and 800-MW supercritical-pressure steam-turbine units at
fossil-fuel power and cogeneration plants - Guided investigations of flexibility characteristics for wet-steam turbines with the single capacity
of 220, 450, 500, 750, and 1000 MW for nuclear power plants, developed their start-up schedules - Participated in design and implementation of automated data acquisition and control systems for
fossil-fuel power units with the single capacity of 300, 500, and 800 MW, various combined-cycle
units with the rating of from 130 to 800 MW, and 1000-MW nuclear power units - Worked out and introduced technological algorithms for the aforesaid systems
- Conceptualized, developed, and implemented diverse computing devices for operating temperature
and thermal-stress monitoring of steam turbine rotors - Guided creation and implementation of computerized and PC-based subsystems of continuous
diagnostic monitoring for 110, 250, 300, 800, and 1200-MW steam turbines; developed and
introduced technological algorithms for informative support of the plant’s operational personnel - Developed special mathematical models and programs to simulate transients of steam-turbine units
under automated and manual control, conceptualized and developed program-simulators for training operational personnel - Issued directions on improvement of regular temperature measurements and monitoring systems
for the main types of domestic large steam power and cogeneration turbines
PROFESSIONAL PUBLICATIONS and INVENTIONS:
- Steam Turbines for Modern Fossil-Fuel Power Plants, The Fairmont Press, Liliburn, GA, 2007, 537p.;
- Wet-Steam Turbines for Nuclear Power Plants, PennWell Books, Tulsa, OK, 2005, 456 p.(translated into Chinese and issued by Xi’an Jiaotong University Press, 2013);
- Large Power SteamTurbines: Design & Operation, 2 vols., PennWell Books, Tulsa, OK, 1997, 1294 p. (translated intoRomanian and published in Romania, 2003, as well as republished in India, 2007);
- two books inRussian: Start-ups of Power Unit Steam Turbines, 1980 in co-authorship with E.R. Plotkin(translated into Chinese and published in China, 1985), and Technological Fundamentals of TurbineStart-Up Automation, 1983;
- over 200 published papers, overviews and lectures in Russian andEnglish; 39 inventions approved by author certificates of the USSR
- Some latest published articles in the Elektricheskie Stantsii magazine (all in Russian):Leyzerovich A.Sh. “…plus digitalization”, 2018, No. 11, 36-40.Leyzerovich A.Sh. “Returnig to the problem of covering the variable part of powerconsumption graphs in the USA”, 2018, No. 6, 20-28.Leyzerovich A.Sh. “Trends in developing steam turbine units with supercritical and ultra-supercritical steam pressure in China”, 2018, No. 1, 25-30.Leyzerovich A.Sh. “Efficiency and emissions of modern large coal-fired power units”,2017, No. 9, 2-9.Leyzerovich A.Sh. “Difference in scenarios of covering the variable part of daily powerconsumption graphs in the USA and Germany”, 2017, No. 6, 2-8.Leyzerovich A.Sh. “Moderrn European Heat-and-Power Steam-Turbine and Combined-Cycle Units”, 2016, No. 11, 2-12.Leyzerovich A.Sh., Plotkin E.R. “Developing Temperature and Thermal-Stress StateMonitoring for Rotors of Large Steam Turbines”, 2016, No. 6, 51-59.Plotkin E.R., Leyzerovich A.Sh., and Berkovich Y.D. “Informative Support of the Operatorin the Course of Starting-up the 228-MW Steam Turbine”, 2013, No. 10, 14-21.