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

Foreign Language (professional)
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose is to acquire and improve competencies by international standards of foreign language education and to communicate in an intercultural, professional, and scientific environment. A master's student must integrate new information, understand the organization of languages, interact in society, and defend his point of view.

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

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

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.

Data for 2021-2024 years

disciplines

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.

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 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

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.

Data for 2021-2024 years

INTERNSHIPS

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