The Department was founded in 1932
Summary
The Department of Electrical Stations is one of the oldest departments at MPEI. It conducts teaching in the basic disciplines in the field of electrical power engineering.
Department staff members are authors of main state standards for methods of calculating short circuits in electrical installations of AC and DC current, for calculation of short-circuit effects - thermal resistance of cables, electrodynamic resistance of electrical equipment and overhead power lines.
The Department is a developer of industry guidelines for the calculation of short circuits and the selection of electrical equipment, a developer of organization standards of PJSC FGC UES and JSC Russian Railways for operational direct current systems, for auxiliary systems of substations, for the selection of batteries, conductors and tripping protective devices (fuses and circuit breakers).
The Department actively cooperates with industrial institutes, generating companies and project organizations (Mosenergo PJSC, Rosseti PJSC, FGC UES PJSC, SO UES JSC, OEK JSC, Institute Teploenergoproekt JSC, etc.).
Research areas
- selection of electrical
equipment and circuits of power plants and substations;
- short circuit currents
calculation;
- electromagnetic
transient processes;
- industrial
control system (ICS) of electrical equipment at digital power plants and
substations; automated data management system of electrical equipment at
digital power plants and substations;
- operating
modes of electrical equipment of power plants and substations;
- scientific
and engineering research in the field of power stations and substations;
- schemes
of electrical circuits of wind and solar power plants;
- building
Information Model (BIM) 3D modeling of power plants, substations and equipment;
- technical
and economical calculations of wind-diesel complexes;
- application
of electric energy storage systems at the electric power facilities;
- application
of rigid busbar at substations and power plants;
- arrangement
of resistive neutral grounding in 6-35 kV networks;
- development
of the ways to improve the reliability and survivability of power plants during
large-scale accidents in power systems, including wartime conditions;
- industrial
control systems in electrical installations of power plants and substations;
- computer-aided
design (CAD) for power plants and substations;
- transient
processes in interconnected power systems and their impact on modern equipment;
- transient
processes in isolated power systems of low power and their impact on modern
equipment.
The list of scientific topics of the department is constantly updated in
accordance with current trends in the development of the power electrical
engineering industry.
Recent projects
- Development of scientific and technological solutions for propagation of Mosenergo MV switchgears for earth faults prevention.
- Development of ‘MRSK Cerner and Volga region’ company (utility) standard ‘Manual for safety prompt blocking operation in HV switchgears’.
- Development of Guidelines for networks 6-35 kV neutral grounding with the study of Moscow Cable Network 6(10) kV transition to resistance grounding.
- Transients study of hydro power plants auxiliaries power systems for RusHydro.
Features
Students involved in ongoing R&D projects of the Department with deep dive in industrial software for simulation and analysis of power systems and research. Used software is: ETAP (OTI), PSS®SINCAL (Siemens), EMTP-RV (Powersys), NEPLAN (ABB), ELCUT (TOR), GuPlanAC (MPEI) and so on.
There are scientific group “Transients in electrical installations of power stations and substations, operating modes of electrical equipment, CAD systems of electrical installations” headed by Prof. Yury Gusev and students are welcome to join our research projects.
Unique equipment
The department owns licensed world-class software, which allow computer simulation of the majority studied processes.
At present, in connection with recent events, a transition to domestic software, which allows performing similar tasks, has been started. Simintech, ELCUT etc.
The department has the laboratory of transient processes in power systems, the laboratory of automated control systems for technological processes in electrical installations of power plants and substations. In 2025, it is expected to open a "digital power plant" laboratory, based on the CHP of MPEI.
Also Department possesses:
220
kV SF6 gas-insulated switch-gear cubicle;
Sandbox
of control automation of electrical equipment and intellectual electronic
protection and automation devices, in compliance with IEC 61850;
Supercapacitors
battery of 40 F and 400 V that acts as equipment testing current source up to
20 kA.
Educational programs
Bachelor
bachelors
of science in the specialty "Power Plants" of the direction 13.03.02.
"Electric Power and Electrical Engineering".
Master
masters
of science for the program 13.04.02. "Power Plants and Substations".
PhD
candidates
of technical sciences in the specialty 05.14.02 "Power Plants and Power
Systems".