Generating and supplying electrical power is as vital as any pursuit of the nation and society, as the most complex organisms.
To maintain their activities, people do their best when using electric power facilities. For us, letting these people enjoy their lives comfortably by keeping electric power facilities in top condition is why KEPCO KPS exists.
Global Power Plant Solution Provider, KEPCO KPS
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Story 1. Stand at the starting point
Completed Yeonggwang Nuclear Power Plant Units 1 and 2 / Korea’s GNI per capita reached USD 30 million
Completed Kori Nuclear Power Plant Unit 1 / Korea’s GNI per capita reached USD 50 million
1984: Established the Korea Electric Power Repair Co., Ltd.
/ 2007: Listed on the Korea Stock Exchange
/ 2014: Headquarters moved to Naju Innovation City
During the 1980s, when the demand for electric power exploded, KEPCO KPS was established for the specialization of maintaining KEPCO’s electric power facilities and technical independence.
KEPCO KPS has grown with Korea’s remarkable economic development with its efforts to improve the performance and reliability of power plant and power transmission facilities, as well as enhance the utilization rate and safety of nuclear power plant facilities.
Power plant performance diagnosis / Retrofit / ROMM / Nuclear decommissioning business / New and renewable energy business / Overseas business / Special technology service / Power plant maintenance / Power transmission and substation facilities service / Power facilities consulting
As the foundation of the electric power industry and the core of national economic development, KEPCO KPS has been taking responsibility for facility maintenance
and offers total solutions including maintenance and diagnosis, the performance improvement of power plant facilities in Korea and overseas, new and renewable energy EPC (engineering, procurement, construction), and power transmission and substations.
As a member of Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO)’s subsidiaries, KEPCO KPS leads customer value with the best service quality for electric power generation companies.
To increase the operating rate of customers’ power plant facilities and produce stable power, KEPCO KPS does its utmost to train people and develop technologies in maintenance engineering.
KEPCO KPS enriches Korea though the maintenance industry, the key element that determines stable power supply.
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Story 2. Mark a new era
* Thermal power Nuclear Power
Power transmission and substation
Pumped storage & water power
* Power Plant Services(Thermal, Nuclear and Hydro)
* Routine maintenance (Preventive maintenance, Predictive maintenance, corrective maintenance) / Planned outage maintenance / Commissioning / Instrument and control system maintenance / Maintenance of private power plant facilities / Modification and rehabilitation project (Life extension and performance improvement, system improvement and rehabilitation, dismantling power plant facilities)
KEPCO KPS conducts power plant performance diagnoses and life evaluations, including routine maintenance, planned outage maintenance, and commissioning for local and overseas power plant facilities.
[Thermal power]
* Electricity / Measurement – Combined cycle O&M simulator operation technology / Integrated digital generator control system building technology / Model integer estimation with generator parameter test technology
* Governor – Power facility output control valve actuator performance diagnosis technology
* Power plant boiler diagnosis and maintenance – Performance analysis and improvement / Life diagnosis
* Turbine – Power facility structure diagnostic technology / Turbine casing heating bolt induction heat technology
* GT -501G gas turbine combustor liner shape and material restoration maintenance technology
Maintenance technology assures the best efficiency by maximizing the operating rate of thermal power plants.
KEPCO KPS technology is the summation of thermal power generation maintenance engineering that is not limited by any manufacturer or any power generation method.
It conducts the latest comprehensive maintenance for the 1,000 MW, high-capacity, and efficient steam power generation plant.
In particular, the plant service center offers the most advanced services that maintain ultrahigh temperature, pressure gas, and steam turbines, as well as develops turbine components.
*Reactor – Reactor vessel head penetration (RVHP) and bottom mounted instrumentation (BMI) examination technology / Reactor phased array ultrasonic testing (PAUT) technology
* Steam generator – KPS upper-bundle lancing system (KULAN) technology / KPS Tubesheet inspection system and KPS In-bundle inspection system (KTIS and KIIS)
* Reactor coolant pump – Reactor coolant pump main flange maintenance and internals replacement technology
* Welding – RCS piping small penetration nozzle preventive maintenance technology / Weld overlay technology of dissimilar metal weld zone
KEPCO KPS has been in charge of maintenance and engineering for the core facilities of Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co., Ltd. (KHNP).
It also has secured specialized high-precision technology and state-of-the-art equipment through efforts of establishing the Nuclear Power Maintenance Engineering Center (NMEC).
NMEC offers inspection and maintenance of reactor internals diagnosis of electric control facilities and inspection/diagnosis/maintenance services on steam generators, reactors and fuel facility systems, reactor coolant pumps and motors, and main system valves.
* Waste treatment – Air conditioner radioactive contamination waste filter treatment technology
* Isolated phase bus (IPB) remote examination technology
builds up customers’ and people’s confidence.
* Transmission lines maintenance / Performance diagnosis / Live wire maintenance services / HVDC conversion facility maintenance / Construction, supervision, engineering, and safety diagnosis of transmission lines
KEPCO KPS accumulates highly advanced technologies including facilities improvement and replacement by increasing the operation year of nuclear power plants, quality assurance of components, and decommissioning technologies.
It realizes “safety,” which is the fundamental and ultimate value, and builds up customers’ and people’s confidence.
KEPCO KPS offers total services including maintenance and construction, performance diagnosis, live wire maintenance, and safety diagnosis
* Transmission and substation technology: Space vector-based overhead transmission line measurement technology / Transmission tower engineering evaluation technology / 765 kV transmission tower live wire insulator replacement power line hydraulic uplift technology (HYPIC)
Rapidly responds to unexpected accidents / Emergency restoration service 24 hr a day, 365 days a year
Moving toward future. for KEPCO power transmission and substation facilities of the national grid.
KEPCO KPS runs its nationwide business and offers the best emergency restoration service that rapidly responds to unexpected accidents for enabling constant power production for 24 hr a day, 365 days a year.
Anytime, anywhere, for anyone, KPS is offering high-quality electricity with its sincere mark in the maintenance industry of power plant facilities and moving toward future.
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Story 3. Broaden its horizons.
New and renewable power plant facilities EPC, including solar power, wind power, etc., and O&M business
KEPCO KPS broadens its horizons of total services to achieve customers’ desired requirements.
As customer demand for eco-friendly energy increases,KEPCO KPS expands its business scope into new and renewable energy businesses.
It improves performance and extends the lives of old plant facilities, especially gas turbines and generators.
Overseas offices
UAE, Jharsuguda, Ambatovy, Al Manakher, Bhavnagar, Tigre, India, Chanderiya, Daharki, Meghnaghat, Dariba, South Africa
KEPCO KPS – KPS-Faraday school for meister high school students was established
/ KEPCO KPS – Made an agreement with small and medium-sized businesses about mutual growth and fair trade
/ Recruitment and creation of quality jobs
In addition,
it offers operation and maintenance services for overseas power plants, opens a new market, and continues the challenge for the future since it has entered the overseas maintenance service market in 1982 for the first time.
Training professional personnel,
securing core technologies that encompasses design, production, and construction of power plant facilities,and ensuring the highest safety with the best technologies are the ways to a better tomorrow.
KEPCO KPS will realize the social value of mutual growth and coexistence by following those ways and open up a bright future with its customers.
Outro
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From people’s daily lives to national economic development
As a power plant solution provider that supports power infrastructures
From people’s daily lives to national economic development
As a power plant solution provider that supports power infrastructures
We are right there by its customers’ side.
KEPCO KPS is here for you.
Global Power Plant Solution Provider, KEPCO KPS
We are right there by its customers’ side.
KEPCO KPS is here for you.
Global Power Plant Solution Provider, KEPCO KPS
