INSTITUTE OF HEAT AND NUCLEAR POWER ENGINEERING
Thermal Power Stations
Thermal power stations generate more than 80% of consumed energy.
This specialty is trained by three Departments: Thermal power plants, Theory of
heating engineering, and Boilers and ecology of power engineering.
The specialty offers the following specializations:
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Steam-and-gas and gas turbines
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Boiler installations of the thermal power plants
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Ecology of power engineering
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The Centralized heat supply from thermal power station
The training of students in the specialty "Thermal power stations"
is determined by the requirements of power engineering, which is based on super-power
power-generating units. The decisions made by the engineer when designing and operating
the equipment should be highly economical, exact and reliable, for mistakes are
costly and their consequences are unpredictable. It demands from the engineer not
only deep knowledge in the field of fundamental and general engineering disciplines,
but also skill in calculations using modern computing facilities. The high level
of education is supported by modern computer equipment and a staff that is both
highly skilled in teaching and highly educated.
Automatic Production and Technology Processes
These specialists are trained by the Department "Automatic
Control Systems for heat processes".
The operation of the industrial equipment and the generation
of electric and thermal energy are impossible without all-round automation and control.
The efficiency, safety and reliability of industrial processes depend on the perfection
of the control system.
First of all, the control requires collecting and processing
a large content of information. In the case of a modern thermal power station, for
example, the initial information is formed by automatic measurements of two-three
thousand values of temperature, pressure, flow rate, the level of a liquid, the
concentration of impurities in the water and steam, and other quantities, as well
as two-three thousand discrete signals determining the condition of the equipment,
mechanisms, latches, valves.
The modern control system is composed of various apparatuses
for data acquisition, microprocessor controlling devices, computer networks, and
the software realizing algorithms proved by the theory of control.
Automation engineers are to apply forces to modernize existing
and out-of-date control systems and to put in action modern program-technical complexes,
which will be able to provide total automation of control processes on electric
power stations.
It is obvious that the specialist in automation of electric
power plants should have a sound grasp of the control object - the plant process
equipment and corresponding processes - and, naturally should have a particular
knowledge in the field of control, automation, and modern computer facilities.
Within the framework of the basic specialty the following specializations
are offered:
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Automation of technological processes at the thermal power
plants
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Automation of technological processes of the nuclear power
plants
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Automation of industrial heat engineering processes
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Automated control systems on thermal power plants and nuclear
power plants
Water and Fuel Technology on the thermal and nuclear power stations
Can you imagine life without water, heat, and electric power?
Whether you know what provides the necessary quality of heat-carrier or neutron
mediator, the answer is simple: nothing but water. To prepare water suitable for
these purposes means to solve a problem that is not less complicated than to realize
space communication. The cause is simple - the purest water used, for example, in
medicine is incredibly dirty compared with that used in power systems. The water
used in power systems needs to be hundreds and thousand times as pure.
But the problem is more extensive than the production of especially
pure water. There are a number of problems involved. The specialists solving the
problems should be professionals in physics, chemistry, hydrodynamics, and mathematics.
That is why the Department "Technology of water and fuel" is one of the key education
facilities in the mathematical modeling of physics-technical processes and monitoring.
We cannot teach you everything, but we can help the one who
wants to learn and wants to find a place in the most interesting branch of science
and engineering. You can realize your abilities and opportunities at the general
level of higher education, having received the bachelor's degree, or continue your
education at a higher level, thus becoming a professionally qualified engineer or
a master of sciences.
We give the graduates a real buttress in life, a profession
bringing satisfaction and a steady financial position. The need for water and heat
will never disappear or essentially change. That is why our specialists have been
called for since antiquity. They were required in ancient and , take important positions
in modern industry, and will be required in future.
The Department offers the following specializations:
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Technology of water and fuel on thermal power plants
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Technology of water on nuclear power plants
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Internal-drainage technology on electric power plants
Management of Enterprise (in thermal power industry)
The electric power-engineering branch should provide consumers
with electric and thermal energy. At the same time the increase of rated capacities
of power units and the complication in the structure of heat and power systems result
in an increased role of the personnel in the maintenance and operation of reliable
units. The personnel should possess not only specialized knowledge, but also knowledge
in the field of economy of the market, marketing, and scientific methods of personnel
administration. Now the formation of administrative personnel at power plants is
carried out by specialists with higher education mainly in the fields of heat and
electrical engineering who have shown not only engineering skills, but also practical
experience in working with people.
Since more than 80% of consumed energy is generated by thermal
power plants, the new specialty "Industrial management in power engineering" was
organized at the Department "Thermal power plants".
Engineer-managers will be engaged in the management of high
power electric and thermal networks and other important power objects in the Russian
Open Society "UES of Russia". The engineer-managers work first of all in:
enterprises for power units designing, mounting and setting
up;
scientific and computer centers;
power systems and associations of a federal and regional
level.
Training of students in the specialty "Industrial management
in power engineering" is defined by the requirements to validity the decisions accepted
by the engineer. So the training of specialists involves studying fundamental and
conventional engineering disciplines based on mastering of the methods of mathematical
and computer modeling; studying of financial, innovational and strategic management,
management of the personnel, monitoring, and auditing.
The students are trained to solve problems systematically.
They should be able to see a problem simultaneously as a whole and in detail, making
it possible to reach reliable, exact, and highly efficient decisions.
Nuclear Power Plants and Installations
The Department of Nuclear Power Plants trains engineers for
working at design and research bureau, at newly constructing and active nuclear
plants. Graduates receive fundamental theoretical and practical background in physics
and mathematics, computer facilities, and special disciplines. The students are
responsible for: carrying out scientific research in physical, thermal physical,
and physicochemical processes; projects; tests; and carrying out effective operations
of the basic equipment of the nuclear power plant. They also use modern methods
of mathematical modeling of processes and study computer-aided design and automated
systems for scientific researches.
Technical Physics of Nuclear Reactors and Plasma Installations
Educational plan of this specialty is directed toward deep
fundamental training in natural sciences. Since 3-d year of education students are
studying special disciplines, which help them to deal with engineering and physical
problems of thermonuclear installations and reactors design and plasma technology.
The gradual advanced studies allows students to understand complicated processes
inside electrophysical installations, which have no analogues in science history.
The unique feature of this specialty is totally individual
education. Almost each student have his personal professor-"tutor".
Students are trained by not only professors of the Department,
but also by specialists of Russian leading research centers. Students use in their
practice the real experimental installations of the Department and research centers.
Great attention during education is paid to methods of mathematical
simulation of physical processes while using contemporary information technologies.
The Internet-hall of the Department is one of the best in MPEI.
Since their first years in MPEI students take part in research
work, while working with experimental installations of the Department and its branches.
Course works, graduate projects made at these installations are original scientific
work, so many students have scientific publications just at graduation from MPEI.
Graduates of the Department feel no problem with job opportunities.
Advanced physics and mathematics training together with system approach allows them
to successfully work in the leading Russian research centers, while developing new
electron-beam, laser and plasma technologies, which are necessary for all branches
of science and industry.
Thermal Physics
Thermal Physics engineers are engaged in experimental and theoretical
research on the thermal physical properties of substances, processes of hydrodynamics,
and heat-mass-exchange. A profound knowledge of general and applied physics, mathematics
and special disciplines, and a deep knowledge of numerical methods in combination
with a professional proficiency level in computers - all of this fruitfully allows
graduates to work in the most various branches of modern engineering.
In 1993 according to the decision of accreditation council
of the American society of engineering education the specialty "Thermal Physics"
was granted accreditation, allowing the MPEI(TU) diploma "Thermal Physics Engineer"
to be in the list of engineer specialties accredited in the .
The specialty offers the following specializations:
Low Temperature Physics and Technology
Low temperature engineering is the basis of many modern high
technologies: a multiple intensification of processes using cryogenic liquids, cryogenic
monodisperse technologies, cryomedicine, cryoelectronics (including the newest supercomputers),
biotechnologies, superconductivity-based power engineering (including high-temperature
superconductivity), high-speed transport, and space researches.
The Low Temperature Department trains specialists in engineering
and physics of low temperatures. It accommodates eight educational laboratories,
the unique cryogenic center, and a computer class.
The specialty offers the following specializations:
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