全球首台单机容量最大冲击式转轮研制成功

Core Insights - The world's first 500 megawatt (MW) impulse turbine with a maximum runner size of 6.23 meters has been successfully developed and dispatched, marking a historic breakthrough in China's core equipment for high-head, large-capacity impulse turbine units [1] - The runner was independently developed by Harbin Electric Machinery Company and will be applied in the Zhala Hydropower Station, which is a key project in China's "Tibetan Electricity Transmission" initiative and is recognized as the most complex impulse hydropower project under construction globally [1] - The Zhala Hydropower Station features two of the world's largest and technically most challenging 500 MW impulse units, which are also the first major technological equipment projects in the energy sector approved by the National Energy Administration [1]