Research areas of the Department
The scientific interests of the Department include
design, construction, operation and reconstruction of buildings and structures of nuclear and thermal power plants, renewable energy sources, application of such latest information technologies and complexes as
· Methodology for computer-aided design of energy facilities, including setting, formalizing and typing design procedures and design processes; development of fundamentally new methods of designer - system interaction, as well as computer graphics tools and methods of geometric modeling of designed objects;
· Development of the scientific basis for automation tools for documentation, paperless document management in energy construction;
· Development of the scientific basis for the implementation of the energy facilities life cycle;
· Optimization and development of space-planning and structural solutions of buildings and structures of nuclear power plants, TPPs, NPPs, renewable and other energy sources, taking into account the natural and climatic conditions processes, economic and structural safety, as well as development of new types of load-bearing and enclosing structures for these buildings;
· Development of methods for assessing the reliability of building structures of the power industry, forecasting their service life, safety in emergency situations and beyond design basis impacts;
· Search for rational space-planning and structural solutions for buildings and structures of power facilities aimed at efficiency increasing of investments, energy and resource saving, creating the required conditions for people and optimal for technological processes, in the conditions of placement of facilities on the territory of the industrial site.
organization and management of construction of energy facilities:
· Development of scientific, methodological and system-technical foundations for design of structures, their development and planning strategies, improvement of efficiency of organization functioning and quality for production processes and systems in power construction;
· Search for methods of informatization and computerization of production processes, their documentary support at all stages for the construction industry of energy facilities;
· Improving the quality and competitiveness of the final products of energy facilities, due to the more efficient implementation of the construction part, as well as the quality control system and products certification in construction;
· Quality systems and environmental friendliness of construction materials and products;
· Development and implementation of industrial management principles, including preparation of personnel support in energy construction;
· Development of theoretical foundations and practical applications of organizational, technological and economic reliability of production processes;
· Assessment of the level of reliability and sustainability of the construction industry of energy facilities;
· Development of production methods under technical, economic and environmental risks; Increased efficiency in emergency situations;
· Development of methods for monitoring, planning and management of production and related processes in the implementation of large power facilities.
search for new technologies, needed for the production of building materials and structures, special construction materials, products and structures for thermal and nuclear power facilities:
· Development of theoretical basis for production of various construction materials with the specified set of operational properties;
· Creation of new and special construction materials ensuring both durability and quickly erectable of buildings and structures of energy facilities, as well as radiation (biological) protection in the conditions of ionizing radiation flows, as well as radiation resistance of the obtained materials;
· Development of new energy-saving and environmentally friendly technological processes and equipment for obtaining construction materials and products for various purposes, using of local raw materials and industrial waste;
· Development of control systems and quality assessment of construction materials and products used in construction of energy facilities;
· Methods for computer design and control of technology for obtaining various building materials;
· Study of the joint operation of building materials with different properties in layered and complex building structures of energy facilities;
· Development of materials and technologies for reconstruction of buildings and structures of nuclear facilities;
· Development of methods for disposal materials from dismantling of buildings and structures of nuclear installations;
· Development of effective materials and technologies for construction of nuclear power generation buildings and facilities in winter;
· Development of the technology of obtaining prefabricated construction products and structures used in the construction of large nuclear power facilities (TPP and NPP);
work execution technologies during construction of NPP, TPP and NPP facilities:
· Forecast and optimize process parameters, improvement of organizational and technological reliability during construction of NPP, NPP and TPP facilities, including new renewable energy sources;
· Development of new and improvement of existing technologies and methods of construction and installation works during construction of energy facilities, Assessment of their effectiveness, identification of general trends and patterns;
· Study of the effectiveness of the use of various machines, equipment, installations, tools, vehicles, automation systems in the construction of large power facilities;
· Principles and methods for determining the production capacity of construction organizations, enterprises, their production base and ensuring their mutual balance;
· Methods of organizational and technological design in power engineering;
· Environmental impact of technological processes;
· Scientific foundations, systematic approach, methods and technologies for improving the operational quality of industrial and civil buildings, taking into account the year-round work and instrumental control methods for improving the reliability of buildings during their construction and reconstruction;
ensuring environmental safety:
· Sustainable natural and technical systems as the main factor in ensuring environmental safety of industrial, civil and other construction facilities, creating favorable living conditions for the population;
· Environmental safety criteria for natural and technical systems formed by industrial, civil, water, transport and other construction facilities; methods for assessing the environmental effects of man-made and natural disasters;
· Environmental safety of power construction facilities, management and operation of environmentally safe natural and man-made systems;
· Development of environmentally friendly energy-efficient, resource-saving, bio-positive structures, building systems and technologies;
· Monitoring systems for environmental safety in fields of construction and operation of construction complexes and structures, including emergencies resulting from natural disasters, man-made accidents and destruction;
· Methods for ensuring environmental safety in managing of architectural, layout and technological solutions for construction of energy facilities during their design, construction, reconstruction, as well as during the reclamation of objects surrounding their natural environment;
· Methods of justification for increasing of the environmental protection level during the creation of construction power and water management systems, water supply systems of TPP and NPP, water disposal;
· Risk assessment methods to justify the principles of environmental safety of construction activities.
Training of scientific and pedagogical personnel is carried out on the basis of the Master's and graduate schools in two main programs: “Construction of Thermal and Nuclear Power Facilities” and “Construction Engineering and Safety of Technically Sophisticated and Unique Energy Facilities.”
