19 Karl Marx Ave., 49027, Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine
Phones: (056) 744 6219; (0562) 46 4062; fax: (056) 744 6211;
e-mail: ivanov@nmu.org.ua
The Institute carries out research into:
– improving the reliability and power efficiency of electric power supply systems;
– electrotechnological installations of industrial enterprises;
– energy audit, systems of energy management;
– development of generalized vector method for investigating electromagnetic process parameters in multiphase systems;
– development of a generalized criterion for estimating the efficiency of electric power transformation and transfer;
– computer simulation of electromagnetic mineral beneficiation processes for intellectual systems of decision-support in control of such processes;
– rational operation modes and development of energy-saving electric drives for open mines;
– voltage and current regulators with adaptive control;
– control of multiphase voltage inverters with pulse-width modulation;
– studying dynamics of technical power losses in power-supply systems and their elements during power transmission and distribution;
– development of dispatch systems for coal mines;
– development of situational control methods for continuous technological processes;
– conditions of implementing optimum real-time control;
– automatic control systems for flow technologies.
The Institute has a fundamental science school in mining and metallurgical electric power engineering, founded and headed by NAS academician NAS G. G. Pivnyak.
The following research results are proposed for cooperative commercialization:
1. Conversion of electromagnetic energy and optimization of electromagnetic process parameters:
– voltage converters with adaptive control for electric equipment;
– development of generalized vector method for measuring electromagnetic parameters of processes in multiphase systems;
– control of multiphase voltage inverters with pulse-width modulation.
2. Improving the efficiency and reliability of electromechanical energy-conversion systems:
– determination of rational operation modes and development of energy-saving electric drives for open mining.
3. Analysis, optimization and automation of operation modes in power supply and consumption systems:
– improving the reliability and power efficiency of electric power supply systems;
– power audit, systems of power management, studies of dynamics of technical power losses in power system elements during energy transmission and distribution.