TPU as a member of the Hydrogen Technology Consortium currently runs the Energy of the Future strategic project under the Priority 2030 program.
Head of the Energy of the Future strategic project is Associate Professor Alexander Pak.
Research areas:
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Conventional energy – efficiency-improving fossil fuel technologies, introduction of integrated models of territorial energy development, increasing the reliability and digitalization of energy systems, gas-, oil- and coal chemistry for deep processing of raw materials and waste management.
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Advanced energy – development of renewable energy sources, nuclear and fusion energy, radioecology, nuclear and radiation safety, decommissioning of nuclear energy facilities.
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Hydrogen energy – development of technology for hydrogen production, transportation, storage and use.
TPU R&D projects in Distributed Energy:
Pavel Chumerin
Head of Lab., Research Laboratory of Super High Frequency Technology
- Sources of high-power microwave radiation based on temporal compression and amplification of microwave pulses in resonant structures and the rationale for the use of such sources in radar technology, electronic warfare systems (EWS) and technological installations for processing various materials and media.
Valentina Sokhoreva
Research Fellow, Laboratory of Radioactive Substances and Technology, School of Nuclear Science and Engineering
Alexander Pavlyuk
Head of TPU Research Center For Decommissioning, School of Nuclear Science and Engineering
Victor Kudiyarov
Associate Professor, Division for Experimental Physics, School of Nuclear Science and Engineering
- Development of materials and structures of hydrogen storage and compression systems to increase the capacity, reduce costs, increase the service life of materials and improve energy efficiency of hydrogen storage and compression in particular cases.
- Development of hardware-software system for measuring characteristics of hydrogen storage materials and hydrogen storage and compression systems.
Natalya Pushilina
Associate Professor, Division for Experimental Physics, School of Nuclear Science and Engineering
Andrey Lider
Head of Division for Experimental Physics, School of Nuclear Science and Engineering
Oleg Dolmatov
Associate Professor, Division for Nuclear-Fuel Cycle, School of Nuclear Science and Engineering
- Obtaining functional nuclear engineering materials with specified properties (increased radiation resistance, specified moderating and neutron-absorbing properties, etc.) by the SHS method.
Egor Kashkarov
Head of Lab, Laboratory of Promising Materials and Safety of Hydrogen Energy Systems, School of Nuclear Science and Engineering
- Hydrogen energy.
- Hydrogen in metals and alloys.
- Production of filters for hydrogen separation and purification.
- Modeling of high entropy alloys and their interaction with hydrogen.
- Non-destructive testing and study of structural-phase transformations in hydrogen and atomic power engineering materials.
Vladimir An
Professor, Kizhner Research Center
- Properties and application of nanopowders, green energy and hydrogen energy.
- Fabrication and characterization of nanoparticles of metals, metal oxides and sulfides.
- Preparation and study of thin films of metallic oxides and sulfides for photovoltaics.
- Development and study of properties of nanocomposite tribotechnical materials.
Pavel Postnikov
Professor, Research School of Chemistry & Applied Biomedical Sciences
Raul Rodriguez
Professor, Research School of Chemistry & Applied Biomedical Sciences
Pavel Strizhak
Professor, Butakov Research Center, School of Energy and Power Engineering
- Modern high-speed video recording and non-contact optical imaging based on continuous and pulsed laser light sources to study fast processes in various applications.
- Physical and chemical simulations in various applications through proprietary software codes and mathematical modeling packages.
- Analytical solution for heat and mass transfer with phase transformations and chemical reactions.
- Heat and mass transfer and hydrodynamics in liquid drops, streams and films under different heat transfer schemes.
- Atomization of liquids, suspensions, solutions and emulsions for various applications.
- Secondary grinding of liquid droplets, solutions, suspensions and emulsions due to micro-explosive effects, impingement of droplets onto droplets, particles, walls, special surfaces, exposure to gas jets.
- Interaction between liquid droplets (wetting, collision, spreading and evaporation) with solid surfaces.
- Microfluidic systems for various applications.
- Fast-response detection of ignitions of materials and substances.
- Fire fighting and containment in premises, forests and steppes using various compositions and systems.
- Smart responsive fire-suppression systems for detection, confinement and suppression of fires.
- Spray technology (painting, cleaning, atomization, heating, cooling, applying special coatings, etc.) to intensify heat transfer.
- Composite liquid and dry fuels based on industrial and municipal waste: preparation, properties, atomization, ignition, combustion, man-made emissions.
- Compositional analysis of gas mixtures through gas analyzers and spectrometers.
- Ignition and combustion methods for conventional (coal, gasoline, kerosene, diesel, fuel oil, gas, etc.), composite (mixtures, suspensions, solutions, emulsions, etc.) and alternative (gas hydrates, gel-like mixtures, plant bio-mixtures, etc.) fuels with varying composition.
- Fire and thermal purification of liquids.
- Light-induced, microwave, conductive, convective, radiation and combined systems of pyrolysis and gasification of substances, materials, mixtures.
- High-precision and fast-response systems for measuring parameters based on contact and non-contact recording devices.
- Improving the energy efficiency of power plants, automobile and aircraft engines.
Kirill Larionov
Associate Professor, Butakov Research Center, School of Energy and Power Engineering
- Lignite-based solid fuel combustion modifier for boiler houses.
- Environmentally-friendly production of liquid hydrocarbons and bitumen from waste.
Stanislav Yankovsky
Associate Professor, Butakov Research Center, School of Energy and Power Engineering
- Alternative fuels for small-scale generation.
- Gasification of solid fuels.
Mikhail Surkov
Associate Professor, Division for Power and Electrical Engineering, School of Energy and Power Engineering
- Design and engineering of power supply systems for enterprises.
- Autonomous power supply systems (including hybrid ones) based on renewable energy sources.
- Energy-efficient solutions for electricity consumers.
Alexander Pak
Associate Professor, Division for Power and Electrical Engineering, School of Energy and Power Engineering
- Plasma synthesis of materials.
- Plasma waste treatment.
- Automation of physics experiments.
Roman Laptev
Associate Professor, Division for Experimental Physics, School of Nuclear Science and Engineering
- Development of hydrogen- and radiation-resistant composites for nuclear industry.
Dmitry Sidelev
Associate Professor, Weinberg Research Center, School of Nuclear Science and Engineering
- Finding an optimal materials science solution for novel accident-tolerant fuel for pressurized-water reactors.
- Surface modification of materials (thin films).
Sergey Bedenko
Associate Professor, Division for Nuclear-Fuel Cycle, School of Nuclear Science and Engineering
- Study the subcritical fusion-fission hybrid reactor operation with a plasma source of deuterium-tritium neutrons in a linear configuration.