Department of Theoretical Bases of Heat Engineering

The main directions of the research work at the department:

Modern information technologies in thermal power engineering and heat engineering;

Non-traditional and renewable energy sources;

Numerical modeling of heat transfer and hydrodynamics in power equipment elements;

Heat pump installations and air conditioning systems;

Preparation of water energy carriers of thermal power plants and nuclear power plants;

Development and optimization of water-chemical regimes and systems for chemical control of the quality of the coolant at TPPs and NPPs;

Autonomous power supply of buildings, structures, objects.

Energy fuels and lubricants;

Membrane technologies in the processes of industrial and municipal water treatment and water purification.

During the training, students receive basic and specialized knowledge, in practice they get acquainted with modern methods of calculation and design of heat exchange equipment, power plants, ​water treatment and chemical control systems, the features of their design and operation; with fuel preparation and combustion systems, fuel quality control, lubricants and dielectric fluids. Graduates of the department are successfully employed in leading energy companies, small-scale energy enterprises, design and scientific institutes.

The department actively uses information technologies in the framework of training courses. The department pays considerable attention to fundamental and applied research in the field of thermal and nuclear energy. The department is equipped with unique experimental facilities, modern research equipment, which allows simulating the processes of real energy facilities. Students and graduate students of the department take an active part in research work.

Educational and scientific facility of chemical and technological monitoring systems for water chemistry

Experimental facility for studying corrosion and deposits formation processes

Experimental facility for studying chemical reagents dosage system

Reverse osmosis plant at the MPEI’s combined cycle power plant

Educational and experimental facility for research of ion-exchange resins

Water chemistry educational laboratory

Educational and experimental facility for studying a modern water treatment technologies

Educational laboratory "Technical Thermodynamics"

Educational laboratory "Heat and Mass Transfer"

Heat pump in the underfloor heating system of the Department

Solar collector with artificial lighting

Heat pump as a part of the Department's demonstration heat station

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Level of higher education Direction of training Code of direction (scientific specialty) Profile of training (scientific specialty)

Undergraduate Thermal Power Engineering and Heat Engineering

13.03.01 Technology of water and fuel at TPPs and NPPs

13.03.01 Thermal power plants

Master's program Thermal power engineering and heat engineering

13.04.01 Technology of water and fuel in the energy sector

13.04.01 Heat engineering and small distributed energy

Postgraduate

1.3.14, Thermophysics and theoretical heat engineering

2.4.5 Energy systems and complexes