Unique Projects

Starting from 1959 till present, the Institute has designed over one thousand projects; structures and facilities constructed according to those designs were timely commissioned, time-tested and are successfully operated today. Every year, the Institute specialists design water supply and water disposal systems in accordance with modern trends and latest developments of Russian leading scientific and research institutes. Some of the most interesting and complex projects in terms of design and technical implementation are described below.

Khabarovsk

		Tungus water plant with water purification from iron and manganese in horizon (SUBTERRA technology, Germany). Feasibility study of the first phase of the Water Production Complex construction was prepared for the city, to produce water from underground sources located at the Tungus Field, with a capacity of 100 thousand cubic m/day, using the latest scientific achievements in potable water preparation and treatment.
		Wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) extension and reconstruction. The site design includes an in-house boiler room with cogeneration plant which generates electric power. The boiler room and cogeneration plant operate on natural gas mixed with biogas from sludge digesters.
		Municipal water treatment plant (MWTP). Leopold Drainage System (USA) was applied within the block of filters and sedimentation tanks with a capacity of 60 thousand cubic m/day.

Novosibirsk

		Provision of continuous operation of NFS-5 pumping and filtering plant at minimum water levels in the Ob River. A simple and creative solution of the Institute specialists helps to stabilize the operation of NFS-5 in case of observable drop of water level in the river. According to the Institute design, upstream of the pumping plant, a ramp with pumps was built to deliver water into the pumping plant forebay. Based on this solution, Krasny Klyuch water plant was designed for Nizhnekamsk town where similar problem occurred.
		Sewage siphon across the Ob River. PET pipes with diameter of 1,400 mm were used for the first time in Russia. New siphon across the Ob River was developed and designed by OAO SGKVK in order to prevent potential accidents in the existing siphon. After it has been put into operation, two lines of the existing siphon will be switched off for capital repair in turns, which will eliminate the risk of the Ob contamination with wastewater.
		Two stations for water ultra-violet (UV) disinfection at NFS-1 and NFS-5 pumping and filtering stations. UV stations provide 100% disinfection of potable water for the right and left banks of the city. NFS-1 is the first water UV disinfection station in Siberia.
		Design of technically complicated and unique capital construction project VEPP-5 Complex ordered by the Institute of Nuclear Physics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (INP SB RAS). VEPP-5 Complex is intended for world-class precision experiments with the highest levels of luminosity. Units of this type are called elementary particle factories.

Kemerovo

Layout plans of the city water supply, water disposal and storm-water drainage systems covering the period till 2025. Water disposal plan solves the problem of unloading the main pumping station which was overloaded and in a critical condition; the solution is to transfer the wastewater to sewage treatment plant through a deep-laid collector which will be built by shield tunneling technique. Reconstruction of gravity collector section was performed by trenchless method, i.e. micro-tunneling.

Tomsk

In 1972, the only source of the city potable water, the Tom River, was contaminated with effluents from various industrial plants; for this reason, the Institute urgently developed the design of underground water intake with a capacity of 260 thousand cubic m/day.

Grozny

Engineering part of Investment Memorandum Water Supply, Water Disposal and Heating System Modernization in Grozny City. Within the program of engineering modernization of water supply, water disposal and heating systems in Grozny city, the Institute specialists collected and studied reliable data on current condition of the systems. Based on the collected data as well as field survey of the facilities, proposals regarding the rebuilding, reconstruction and modernization of municipal water supply, water disposal and heating systems were prepared; moreover, proposals on costs reduction and use of state-of-the-art equipment were made and the description of engineering solutions was provided.

Irkutsk (Baikal Lake)

In 2001, the Institute developed the General Procedure of Water Use and Water Disposal in the Central Economic Zone of the Baikal Natural Territory. This work was included into the scope of measures aimed to protect the Baikal.

Krasnoyarsk

In 2004, the Institute developed the Design of Sludge Mechanical Dewatering Room using the equipment manufactured by Westfalia Separator AG and Polydos 4 p/4000 unit, which made it possible to reduce the volume of sludge by factor of 10.

Dolinsk (Sakhalin island)

Reconstruction of water supply system in the town of Dolinsk, settlements of Uglezavodsk and Bykov, as well as neighbouring villages, fed from the Naibinsky Water Plant. Reconstruction of water supply systems was designed taking into account complicated geotechnical conditions of Sakhalin island: seismicity of magnitude up to 9, water-abundant territories, presence of crossings of designed pipelines with the rivers of fishery top category.

Mirny

MIR Mine Thermal pumping station is intended to provide the mine production zone with hot water. The construction of the pumping station takes place in the area of permafrost soils. Foundation under the building frame structure is made of bored piles. To avoid soil thawing in adjacent areas in the permafrost conditions, the piles have been designed to have cooling devices inside the body structure.