2/10 Pozharsky St., 61046, Kharkiv, Ukraine

Phone: (0572) 94 5514; phone/fax: (0572) 94 4635;
e-mail: admi@ipmach.kharkov.ua

A. M. Pidhorny Institute of Mechanical Engineering Problems (IPMash), a centre for scientific research into power engineering and mechanical engineering, was set up in 1972.

Science schools:

– hydromechanics and profiling of hydraulic machine bladings;

– mechanical and power-machinery engineering;

– optimization of processes in and design of turbine machinery;

– mathematical modelling of physical processes;

– alternative power engineering, hydrogen power engineering in particular;

– thermal physics in the field of modelling and identification of non-linear heat processes.

Fundamental and applied research is done in the areas of:

– physical engineering problems in power industry (heat physics and engineering; hydrogen power engineering; renewable power sources);

– mechanics (fluid-and-gas mechanics; mechanics of strain in solid bodies, general mechanics and biomechanics);

– mechanical engineering problems (the theory of machines and systems; reliability and service life; advanced technologies);

– problems in computer science, computer engineering and automation (methods and algorithms in computational mathematics; software).

IPMash has contributed to elaborating the ‘Strategy of developing power engineering in Ukraine out to 2030’; developing the concept of the State program for assuring technological safety in the key branches of economy; the regional program ‘Resource’; is the initiator of introducing research-intensive technologies developed by NAS institutes into business practice of small cities in Ukraine.

IPMash maintains a Doc. Sci. and post-graduate training programs, two specialized academic councils for defending Doc. Sci.. and Cand. Sci. theses.

IPMash publishes international R&D «Journal of Mechanical Engineering».

The following projects are proposed for joint development and commercialization:

– a technology of diagnosing vibration and heat-stressed conditions in turbine generating sets and extending their service life;

– a microwave-plasma technology for igniting pulverised coal fuel;

– a thermopressure-and-chemical technology for intensifying oil, gas and condensate production from low-capacity wells;

– energy-saving technologies.