Training-and-Research Institute
of Mining and Metallurgical Electrical Power Engineering
under National Mining University

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.