Institute of Thermal and Nuclear Power Engineering (ITNPE)

General information about ITNPE

Institute of Thermal and Nuclear Power Engineering (ITNPE) was established in 2000 as a structural MPEI sub-division on the basis of confluence of former Thermal Power Engineering Faculty and Energy Physics Faculty and invariably preserved its face, its traditions and experience which were accumulated during 50-years of its activity. At present ITNPE includes 8 departments, it has two directions of Bachelor and Master courses; nine specialties for engineers and eight specialties for Ph.D. courses; four educational-scientific centers which are used by ITNPE students and Ph.D.-students. The total staff of ITNPE professors and teachers includes 194 persons and among them 48 Dr.Sci. and 113 Ph.D.

ITNPE has deep scientific, technological and industrial links with JSC "EES of Russia", JSC "Mosenergo", other energy systems. ITNPE graduates from Thermal Power Engineering direction are intensively invited by the industrial enterprises because they have the deep scientific and practical experience, knowing the computer technologies, the skill to solve complicated problems in energetic. ITNPE is closely linked with research, development and designing organizations of Moscow and other regions of Russia where many MPEI graduates work. ITNPE graduates from Technical Physics direction have the deep mathematical and physical preparation and are widely invited to research and development organizations.

ITNPE departments

• Water and Fuel Technologies

• Thermal Power Plants

• Automated Systems for Thermal Process Control

• Theoretical Fundamentals of Heat Engineering

• Boiler Installations and Energetic Ecology

• Nuclear Power Plants

• Engineering Thermophysics

• General Physics and Nuclear Fusion

• Low Temperatures

ITNPE trains

Bachelors and Masters on directions:
– Thermal Power Engineering;
– Technical Physics.

Engineers on specialties:
– Thermal Power Plants;
– Water and Fuel Technologies on Thermal and Nuclear Power Plants;
– Automation of Technological Processes and Manufacture;
– Engineering and Physics of Low Temperatures;
– Thermophysics;
– Nuclear Power Plants and Installations;
– Technical Physics of Nuclear Reactors and Plasma Devices;
– Nano-Materials.

Ph.D.-students and Dr. Sci.-candidates on specialties:
– Thermophysics and Theoretical Heat Engineering;
– Machines, Apparatuses, and Processes in Refrigerating and Cryogenic Plants, Conditioning and Life Support Systems;
– Power Engineering Systems and Complexes;
– Nuclear Power Plants including its Designing, Operation and Withdrawal;
– Thermal Electrical Plants, its Power Systems and Aggregates;
– Automation and Control of Technological Processes and Manufacture;
– Computer-Aided Design Systems;
– Industrial and Fire-Protection Safety

The following Education-Research Center function at ITNPE:

• Research-Educational Center "Physical Engineering Problem of Energetic";

• Educational-Research Center "MPEI-Mosenergoproject" (Branch of Thermal Power Plant Department);

• Center for Expert Retraining and Qualification Improvement for the Employees in the Field of Energetic of Thermal; Power Plants;

• Research-educational Center "Thermic methods of treatment and utilization of man-caused formations and wastes".

ITNPE actively performs the scientific investigations in the following directions:

• Water-chemical regimes of TPP and NPP;

• Monitoring and automated systems for chemical checking;

• Low-wasted technologies for treatment of sewage;

• Development and optimization of schemes and parameters of gas-turbine and steam-gas units;

• Optimization of schemes and parameters of TPP and NPP;

• Development of concept for creation and modernization of integrated ACS on the basis of the modern utilities;

• Theory development for control systems of technological objects;

• Regime optimization of the main and auxiliary equipment;

• Thermophysical properties of water and water vapor;

• Combined research of physical properties of the high-temperature super-conductive materials;

• High effective heat-exchange systems;

• Investigations of urban industrial environment pollution;

• Noise reduction from the power equipment;

• Investigation of heavy damage at NPP with water-water reactors;

• Reliability analysis and safety at NPP;

• Automated system for simulation and calculation of NPP regimes;

• Investigation of two-phase flow hydro-dynamics;

• Automated systems of thermophysical research;

• Hydro-dynamics and heat-exchange at the turbulent flow;

• Experimental and theoretical research of heat-exchange processes;

• Cryo-mono-disperse technologies for substance production;

• Development of systems of cryo-vacuum isolation on the basis of special nano-materials;

• Development of cryo-statting systems for high-voltage super-conductive cables;

• Development and implementation of the cryogenic systems on the basis of cryo-agent mixtures;

• Thermophysical problems in creation of receivers for the power beams from thermonuclear reactors and installations;

• Heat-hydraulic parameter investigations in the reactors of new generation.