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BACKGROUND: Kay International, with offices in California and Russia, contacted R.F. MacDonald Co. in response to their requirement to furnish ten complete boiler rooms in Khabarvsk, a far eastern Russian city with a population of 800,000. Khabarvsk is about 400 miles north of the port city of Vladivostock and is located on the Amur River approximately 30 miles north east of the China border. 

Since the late 1940’s, heating systems built in Russia were centralized.  In Khabarvsk there are two electrical power generation plants and one heating only plant, all coal fired.  The former operate as large scale co-generation plants with the heat rejection piped throughout the vast city in about six hundred miles of above and below ground piping to provide the city’s heating and hot water needs.  The hot water from the heating only plant is piped in a similar manner. As the above ground piping approaches a roadway at an intersection, it is elevated above the street to provide clearance for vehicle traffic to pass beneath but also to serve as an expansion loop for the hot water piping.

After many years of operation, in a combination of open and closed loop piping systems providing both heating and domestic hot water needs, without water treatment and adequate maintenance, many residents especially in outer lying areas were without hot water completely.   

PROJECT: Khabarvsk, Russia - Ten Complete Boiler Rooms   

The project was performance based with no detailed specifications provided.  A total of ten complete boiler rooms were required, each to have two heavy oil fired 600 HP hot water boilers, two primary hot water circulating pumps, make up water softener, expansion tank, control system and all interconnecting piping.  Rather than have the equipment fit the available space of existing sites, completely pre-engineered identical boiler plants were to be provided and the sites would be made to fit. 

R.F. MacDonald Co. proposed twenty 600 HP Cleaver Brooks hot water boilers equipped to fire heavy oil with fully automatic air atomized burners and propane pilots, the required auxiliary equipment, controls and all interconnecting piping, valves and fittings into pre-engineered boiler rooms. 

To support the field installation requirements thousands of miles away, R.F. MacDonald Co. provided fully detailed 3-D CAD drawings in addition to scaled two-dimensional drawings. On site field services to supervise installation and equipment start up was also included in our proposal.  Based on our complete equipment offering and scope of engineering and field services commitment, we received the order for approximately $2,500,000. 

The boilers were shipped on flat racks and all other equipment and accessories were containerized for ocean shipment from Seattle to Vladivostock.  From Vladivostock to Khabarvsk the equipment traveled by rail. After the equipment for the first boiler room was received and rigged into place at a site to provide the heating needs for a complex of apartments in an area about 30 miles west of Khabarvsk, R.F. MacDonald Co. was contacted to supervise the remaining portion of the installation and provide equipment start up.

R.F. MacDonald Co. is proud to have participated in this effort to assist the city of Khabarvsk, Russia in the rebuilding of its infrastructure.