Master degree program
Thermal Power Engineering (MEPhI)

Thermal Power Engineering (MEPhI)

QUALIFICATION

  • Scientific and pedagogical direction - Master Engineering Sciences

MODEL OF GRADUATING STUDENT

Integrate physical and technical knowledge to solve complex thermal power issues and formulate judgments based on incomplete or limited information.
Critically evaluate and interpret the latest achievements of theory and practice in the field of traditional and alternative heat power engineering.
Analyze the existing problems of enterprises in the heat and power industry and ways to solve these problems.
Develop physical and mathematical models of energy processes and systems and carry out a comprehensive study on their basis.
Competently use modern information and communication technologies and methods of computer modeling in all spheres of their life and work, in particular, for professional purposes.
Navigate in complex methods of studying fast physical and chemical processes, as well as to calculate the basic thermodynamic states in stationary gas-dynamic complex chemical systems.
Describe the thermodynamics of complex processes and systems, as well as calculate the physical characteristics of nonequilibrium systems.
To carry out calculations of the parameters of energy systems to ensure the reliability and safety of heating installations and to increase the efficiency of energy use.
Analyze various methods of conducting scientific and applied work, formulate and substantiate the research topic, apply professional and practical skills in scientific and pedagogical activities.
Analyze scientific and technical information, own domestic and foreign experience on the research topic.
Independently organize and conduct research and development projects in accordance with existing ethical standards.
Systematize the results of research activities and submit them in writing in the form of reports, abstracts, articles, master's thesis and take part in their discussion.

Program passport

Speciality Name
Thermal Power Engineering (MEPhI)
Speciality Code
7M07130
Faculty
of Physics and Technology

disciplines

3D simulation of reacting flows in combustion chambers
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Aim оf discipline:: the study of methods and the formation of skills for three-dimensional modeling of reacting flows in the areas of real geometry when burning energy fuels. Abstract оf discipline: Basic equations and methods for solving problems of three-dimensional modeling of convective heat and mass transfer processes in reacting media. Two-phase flow. Obtaining difference equations by the control volume method. Modeling the optimal modes of combustion of pulverized coal fuel using the example of the Ekibastuz state district power plant. The problem of reducing the output of nitrogen oxides NOx

Computational Thermal Physics Methods for Optimizing Combustion Processes
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Aim оf discipline: mastering the methods of experimental research of thermophysical properties of substances and methods of analyzing the processes of accumulation and transfer of heat by substances at different temperatures for the intensification of technological processes and environmental protection. Abstract оf discipline: Mathematical models of the combustion process in the combustion chamber. Over Fire Air technology. Systems of separate (SOFA) and double (CCOFA) "sharp" blast. Technology for reducing nitrogen oxide emissions using non-catalytic reactions

Computer modeling of the combustion of liquid and solid fuels
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Aim оf discipline: formation of skills and abilities to apply methods of modeling and optimization of heat and power processes, installations and systems of thermal power plants and industrial enterprises. Abstract оf discipline: Mathematical modeling of processes, devices and systems of heat power engineering, optimization of installations and systems of thermal power engineering. Optimization methods for heat technology installations and methods for calculating optimal heat and power systems. Application of modeling methods in the study and design of heat and technological systems and their elements

Convection processes in heat and mass transfer apparatus
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: develop knowledge on experimental and numerical studies of the occurrence of concentration convection in multicomponent gas mixtures occurring in technological processes and installations. Content: Methods of mass transfer. Convective mass transfer in various channels. Mass transfer in solving various problems of energy. Study of the intensification of molecular mass transfer during convection. Determination of separation coefficients in the regime of diffusion instability.

Foreign Language (professional)
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form practical skills in various types of speech activity in a foreign language. The training course builds the ability to perceive, understand and translate information in the modern global space, participate in scientific events to test their own research. The discipline is aimed at improving competencies in accordance with international standards of foreign language education.

Heat supply systems and heating networks
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: developing knowledge and skills in design, operation and management of heat supply systems and heat networks, including understanding the principles of operation of heat systems, methods for calculating heat loads, fundamentals of efficient use of energy resources and ensuring the reliability and safety of heat supply. Content: types and components of heat supply systems. Methods for calculation and design of heating networks.

Higher education pedagogy
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The goal is the formation of the ability of pedagogical activity in the university based on the knowledge of higher education didactics, theories of upbringing and education management, analysis and self-assessment of teaching activities. The course examines the design of the educational activities of the future teacher using credit technology of teaching, the implementation of the Bologna process, mastering lecturer, curatorial skills using strategies and methods of teaching / education and assessment (TLA-strategies)

History and philosophy of science
  • Number of credits - 3
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline: to form a holistic systemic understanding of philosophy as a special form of worldview, and the historical foundations of the formation of scientific knowledge, an understanding of the methods and problems of teaching them in future professional activities. As a result of training will be able to: characterize the main content of metaphysics and ontology in the historical development of philosophy; systematization of philosophical and scientific methods of worldview; conduct research related to the definition of the philosophical content of issues in the professional sphere and the presentation of the results for discussion

History and Philosophy of Science
  • Number of credits - 3
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: studying regularities and trends in the development of special activities for the production of scientific knowledge, taken in their historical dynamics and examined in a historically changing sociocultural context. Introduces the problem of science as an object of special philosophical analysis, forms knowledge about the history and theory of science.

Management and marketing in the thermal power industry
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: learn basics of management and marketing for subsequent use in work; familiarization with processes in the organization operation, information about the organization activities, variants of structure construction, staff motivation. Content: Modern marketing concept of enterprise management. Methods of portfolio analysis. Management decisions on pricing.

Methods of scientific researches in heat and power engineering
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Aim оf discipline: formation of competencies necessary for solving problems in the field of scientific and technical activities during observations and measurements, drawing up their descriptions and conclusions in the development, analysis of the state and prospects for the development of heat power engineering, heat technology Abstract оf discipline: The world energy model. Energy industry of Kazakhstan. Heat networks: problems of heat transportation. Research methods, rules and conditions for the implementation of innovative work; determining the technical and economic efficiency of ongoing research and development

Organization and Planning of Scientific Research (in English)
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: familiarization with peculiarities of scientific research, scientific and technical, innovative activity, methods and means of scientific research, organization and planning of creative work. Content: Features of individual and collective scientific activity. Empirical and theoretical methods and means of scientific research. Methods-operations and methods-actions. Innovation: essence and definitions. Innovation as a scientific and technical, technological and economic category.

Pedagogy of higher education
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose is the formation of the ability of pedagogical activity through the knowledge of higher education didactics, theories of upbringing and education management, analysis, and self-assessment of teaching activities. The course covers the educational activity design of specialists, Bologna process implementation, acquiring a lecturer, and curatorial skills by TLA-strategies.

Problems of development of waste-free industries and their solutions
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Aim оf discipline: study of the conditions for increasing the efficiency of waste-free production; methods for a comprehensive assessment of the state of natural and economic territories and its impact on production safety Abstract оf discipline: Waste classification. Fuel waste characteristics. Waste from coal mining, ash from thermal power plants, ash and slag, oil production waste, methods of their transportation and processing. Methods of waste-free processing of energy waste and used as reductants. The basic principles of creating waste-free industries and the requirements for them. Rational use of waste

Psychology of management
  • Number of credits - 3
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The course "Psychology of Management" forms the competencies of undergraduates necessary for the professional activities of a graduate student in the framework of managerial relations. Purpose: provision of scientifically based training of highly qualified specialists on the basis of study and analysis of psychological conditions and peculiarities of management activity in the process of professional formation within the selected specialty.

The methodology and technology of writing scientific papers
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: acquisition of necessary knowledge for the generalization of scientific research results, their processing and registration as scientific article for the purpose of publication in the open press. Content: Basic methods for presenting scientific research results. Formulation of the theme, concept and title of scientific article. The choice of publication for publishing a scientific article. Structure of scientific article. Work with literary sources.

The theory and technique of scientific experiment
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: study of modern theory foundations of engineering experiment methods of planning, implementation in practice, mathematical processing of experimental data and analysis of active experiment results. Content: The main tasks of research work. Simulation and similarity. Fundamentals of mathematical design of the experiment. Statistical analysis of experimental data. Fundamentals of random processes theory and their statistical processing. Computer methods of statistical processing of engineering experiment results.

Data for 2021-2024 years

disciplines

3D simulation of reacting flows in combustion chambers
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: study of methods and features and the formation of skills of three-dimensional modeling of reacting currents in areas of real geometry when burning energy fuels. Content: Basic equations and method of solving 3D simulation of convective heat and mass transfer in reacting media in real geometry. Two-phase flow. Radiative heat transfer. Obtaining difference equations using the control volume method.

Automated control systems of thermo-technical processes and attitudes
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: study of automated control systems for boiler units, water treatment and fuel supply equipment, heating installations, public utility facilities, drying and refrigeration units, chemical and metallurgical industry facilities, principles of management of thermal industrial facilities, functions and tasks of automated control systems, alarms and protection of specific industrial installations; familiarization with the main modern trends in the field of automated control systems for industrial facilities.

Computer simulation of the combustion of liquid and solid fuels
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: formation of knowledge, skills and abilities to apply methods for simulation and optimization of thermal power engineering processes, installations and systems of TPP and industrial enterprises. Content: Mathematical modeling of processes, devices and systems of thermal power engineering, optimization of options for installations and systems of thermal power engineering. Numerical methods for calculating the main characteristics of coolants and heat and mass transfer devices. Modeling methods for research and design of thermal technology systems.

Diffusion Instability in a Multicomponent Gas Mixtures
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Aim оf discipline: mastering the basic methods of calculating the diffusion process when solving practical problems of stationary and non-stationary diffusion mixing in multicomponent gas mixtures. Abstract оf discipline: Stefan-Maxwell diffusion equations. Features of multicomponent diffusion. Diffusion and instability of mechanical equilibrium in isothermal three-component gas mixtures. Ballast gas method. Inversion of the density of the mixture. The boundaries of stable diffusion in three-component gas mixtures. Concentration convection with isothermal diffusion in vertical channels of various shapes

Ecological Problems of Environmental Industry
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Aim оf discipline: formation of systematic knowledge about rational strategies for energy and resource conservation; skills in the balanced use of natural resources and environmental protection to ensure a high quality of life. Abstract оf discipline: Limits of stability of natural geosystems and mechanisms of adaptation to stress. Modeling of natural processes. Anthropogenic impacts on nature and the cause-and-effect relationships of processes occurring in nature during economic development. Disturbance of natural ecosystems in the world.

Energy fuel combustion technologies
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Aim оf discipline: formation of a theoretical base for undergraduates on the combustion of energy fuels and the efficient use of natural resources. Abstract оf discipline: рreparation of solid fuel for combustion. Dust preparation systems. Properties and characteristics of solid fuel. Combustion of solid fuel. Preparation and combustion of heating oil. Preparation and combustion of gas fuel. Fuel quality control. Integrated use of fuel in thermal power plants. Chamber and layer combustion of solid fuel.

Environmental safety in thermal power engineering
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: acquiring knowledge in assessing the impact of natural and man-made factors on the environment, environmental friendliness of technological processes, control, forecasting and prevention of environmental hazards, protection of the population, technosphere objects and the natural environment. Content: principles of establishing environmental standards for an enterprise, organizing control over the environmental safety of an enterprise, technological safety systems for thermal power facilities.

Fundamentals of power supply system design
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: studying methods and rules for designing power supply systems for cities and industrial enterprises; mastering modern methods for calculating normal and emergency operating modes of electrical networks, focused on energy and resource conservation. Content: Practical methods for determining design loads of electrical networks. Compensation of reactive loads in power supply systems. Placement of compensating devices in distribution networks.

Low-temperature thermal technology processes and apparatuses
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Aim оf discipline: formation of skills in working with basic methods and technologies for obtaining low temperatures and experimental installations for measuring physical parameters in the range of low and ultra-low temperatures. Abstract оf discipline: Properties of gases at low temperatures. Cryogenic liquids. Steam-liquid compression heat transformers. Continuous and batch absorption plants. IR spectroscopy method for low-temperature studies. Measurement of the thermal conductivity of metals at low temperatures using the relative flat layer method. Infrared spectrum Fourier spectrometers

Modern «clean» technologies in thermal power engineering
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: familiarization with advanced technologies and methods that help reduce harmful emissions and increase the efficiency of using energy resources in the thermal power industry. Content: Cogeneration and trigeneration in thermal power engineering. Use of renewable energy sources. Modern technologies to increase boiler efficiency and reduce emissions of harmful substances. High temperature air combustion.

Modern methods of thermodynamics of irreversible processes
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Aim оf discipline: study of optimal models using the basic principles of the phenomenological theory of irreversible processes. Abstract оf discipline: Thermodynamics of irreversible processes. The principle of local equilibrium. Entropy of nonequilibrium systems. Evolution criterion for equilibrium and nonequilibrium states. Glansdorff-Prigogine theorem. Linear theory of Onsager. Principle of microscopic stability of non-equilibrium states of reversibility. Curie principle. Stability of stationary states and Le Chatelier's principle. Fluctuations and the limits of applicability of the thermodynamic method

Operational reliability and safety of thermal processing systems
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: mastering issues of reliability of thermal installations, safe operation of power equipment. Contents: structural schemes of reliability of technical systems and their calculation, the main methods of increasing the reliability and examples of the use of reliability theory to assess the security of production systems of thermal and electric energy; the methodology of analysis and assessment of technological risk, methodology to assess the reliability, safety and risk.

Perspective direction of power engineering development
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: familiarization with main modern areas of energy development for optimization operation of power plants and reduce negative impact. Content: Current state, development forecasts, and problems of RK and the world power industry. Improvement ways of electric network operation. Possibility of RES usage for power supply. Power characteristics calculation methods of power stations, plants and complexes.

Physical kinetics
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Aim оf discipline: formation of undergraduates' knowledge about the fundamental laws of physical kinetics, physical processes and phenomena; skills of studying processes and phenomena occurring in a wide range of thermodynamic parameters of the state of matter. Abstract оf discipline: Microcanonical distribution. Ehrenfest's equations. Relationships between critical indices. Landau's theory of phase transitions of the second kind: order parameter, symmetry breaking, conditions for implementation, and valuesof critical exponents. Equilibrium conditions for the phases of multicomponent systems. Gibbs Phase Rule.

Problems of development of waste-free industries and their solutions
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: study of the conditions for increasing the efficiency of waste-free production; learning the methodology of complex assessment of natural-economic areas that host production, estimation of influence of natural economic territories in the security industries. Content: Classification of waste. Coal mining and oil production wastes, ashes. Methods of waste-free processing of waste and energy used as reducing agents. Basics of creating waste-free production.

Removal and use of ash and slag materials on thermal power plants
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: formation of engineering-ecological thinking to understand modern problems of environment protection and rational environmental management. Content: Industrial ecology and industry greening. Organization and general regularities of productions. Ecological strategy and policy of production development. Removal of ash and slag materials, and their use. Main industrial methods of flue gases and sewage purification.

Scientific and technical problems of thermal power engineering and heat technologies
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: preparing to solve professional problems in the field of energy saving in power engineering and heat technologies. Content: System, legislative, technical and environmental problems of heat power engineering. Problems and prospects of traditional, non-traditional and renewable sources usage. State policy in increasing energy efficiency. Energy inspections of thermal power facilities. Energy-saving measures in industry.

The electrical part of the power system
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: develop solid theoretical framework on operation modes and operating power equipment to solve theoretical and practical problems in professional activity associated with designing, testing, commissioning and operation of power engineering equipment for safety, zero accident rate and high efficiency of power stations.

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INTERNSHIPS

Pedagogical Practice
  • Type of control - Защита практики
  • Description - Aim of pedagogical practice: the formation of skills for students to deepen and consolidate knowledge in the field of teaching methods in higher education institutions. When studying pedagogical practice, the following aspects will be considered: Acquaintance with the goals, objectives and content of teaching practice.

Research practice
  • Type of control - Защита практики
  • Description - The research practice of the undergraduate is carried out in order to consolidate the theoretical knowledge gained in the process of learning, the acquisition of practical skills, competencies and professional experience in the specialty under study, as well as the development of advanced experience. The content of research practice is determined by the topic of the dissertation research.

Teaching Internship
  • Type of control - Защита практики
  • Description - Purpose: formation of practical competencies in the field of higher school pedagogy based on the requirements for modern philological education, aimed at the formation of stable professional knowledge, skills and abilities. The practice deals with the organization and tasks of pedagogical work in the field of modern higher literary education.

Data for 2021-2024 years