Department of Modeling and Design of Power Installations

Scientific and technical developments are carried out in several key areas:

• ​Thermal, hydraulic, and aerodynamic calculations and design characteristics development of boilers and nuclear power plants’ steam generators.
• Design development and optimization, drawings, and 3D models’ creation for power engineering objects.

Complex mathematical modeling with thermal calculations of power engineering objects.

• Scientific and technical problems are solved jointly with the power engineering industry leading manufacturers (JSC Machine-Building Factory of Podolsk (JSC ZiO), PJSC «Krasny Kotelshchik» (part of NordEnergoGroup)).​

The research activity of The Department of Modeling and Design of Power Installations includes the following projects:

• development of computer expert-diagnostic systems of steam boilers and their elements.

• development of computer-aided design technologies for power equipment.

• evaluation, justification and adoption of technical solutions in the steam boilers design.

• development and introduction of highly economical and environmentally friendly technologies for fossil fuels’ combustion.

• mathematical models’ development and software support for the power equipment design.

• fuels’ combustion study with controlling of chemical underburning.

• natural circulation studies in heat recovery steam generators.

• highly efficient low-power equipment (boilers, burners) development.

• solid phase circulation circuit study in the CFB boiler.

• nonconventional-fuels-fed low-power boilers’ design.

• Power engineering objects’ full-scale studies organization.

In the course of the work, the project activities of students at the university were organized. In the last 20 years alone, projects have been implemented for the following energy facilities:

• Kirishskaya GRES;

• "Noyabrskaya PGE";

• GRES-24 (Ryazan);

• TPP in the town of Svetly;

• TPP Rep. Ecuador;

• OOO LUKOI-Energoengineering at the Usinskoye field;

• TPP of Yaregskoye field;

• Yugo-Zapadnaya TPP (St. Petersburg);

• TPP-12 Mosenergo;

• Pervomaiskaya TPP;

• Kaliningrad TPP-2;

• Pregolskaya TPP;

• Chelyabinsk TPP-1;

• Aleksinskaya TPP;

• Dyagilev TPP;

• Novogorkovskaya TPP;

• Academic TPP;

• Nizhneturinskaya GRES;

• Adler TPP-1 and others.

The Department of Modeling and Design of Power Installations offers educational services in accordance with the State Educational Standards, which are being prepared for 7 MPEI institutes. The computer technology and software development allowed lecturers to use multimedia technologies and graphic systems in their work with students.

To increase research work efficiency, the department has modern computing equipment that contains the most current versions of the necessary software. A lot of scientific and technical problems have been solved due to this equipment and software. It provides continuous scientific activity for department’s students and workers.

Department’s workers in collaboration with students created several application programs for the following tasks solving:

• Thermal calculations of power nuclear reactors (WWERTR).

• Gas turbine combustion chamber’s design calculations.

• Steam boilers’ heating surfaces’ thermal and structural calculations.

• boiler’s harmful emissions calculation (EnPoll).

Rapid Prototyping Equipment

Rapid prototyping equipment allows quick and accurate receiving of various parts and products layout of created 3D models.

Modern computer classes

The department has five computer classes with multimedia equipment and graphic stations for modern graphic programs usage.

Two specialized classrooms are equipped with workstations for engineering calculations carrying out, drawings preparing and three-dimensional objects modeling. It’s widely used by students in their projects’ work.

Computational equipment for research carrying out

A computing cluster consisting of 5 Hyperion nodes (the total number of cores is 120, the total amount of RAM is 640 Gb), united by a high-performance InfiniBand data and messaging network for modeling gas-dynamics and combustion processes.

The Aquarius workstation, based on 2 Intel(R) Xeon(R) processors, is used for the hydro- and gas dynamics processes calculation and steam and hot-water boilers’ dynamic models’ creation.

More than 100 workstations based on Intel(R) Core(TM) processors for 3D modeling, design documentation preparation and engineering calculations.

Environmental Monitoring Laboratory

Information obtained during the environmental monitoring stations operation is planned for publication on the MPEI portal. It will inform the community about the region’s environmental situation and the MPEI TPP’s environmental performance.

Teaching students at MPEI TPP

Students are trained on modern operating power equipment using modern tools for monitoring work processes. There is also the possibility scientific research carrying out.

Bachelor

• 13.03.03 Direction: «Power engineering», Profile: «Boilers, combustion chambers and steam generators of nuclear power plants»

Master

• 13.04.03 Direction: «Power engineering», Profile: «Organic and nuclear fuel power plants»

PhD

• 2.4.5 «Energy systems and complexes»