Liang Weiyan
Liang Weiyan was a Chinese electrical engineer and expert in power-generating equipment. He was one of the key engineers who designed the water turbines of the Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest power station. He also served as Chief Engineer of Harbin Electric Machinery Company and taught at the Harbin Institute of Technology. He was elected an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 1995.
Biography
Liang was born 2 October 1929 in Beiping, Republic of China. His ancestral home was Xiangling County, Shanxi province.After graduating from the electrical engineering department of Peiyang University in 1951, he started his career at Harbin Electric Machinery Factory, eventually becoming Chief Engineer of the company.
In the 1970s, his design of a 125-megawatt water turbine generator for the Gezhouba Dam won a national gold prize, and he oversaw the manufacture of China's first 600-megawatt steam turbine generator using imported technology.
In the 1980s and 1990s, he was a leading member of the group of engineers which designed the water turbines of the Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest power plant. He was elected an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 1995, and was appointed in 2008 as head of the power equipment group of the CAE's Three Gorges quality inspection team.
Liang was the chief editor of several books including History of China's Electric Industry , and An English-Chinese Dictionary of Power Generation Engineering. He also served as a Ph.D. advisor at the Harbin Institute of Technology.
Liang retired in May 2015. He died on 29 December 2018 in Sanya, Hainan Province, at the age of 89.