The Department of Thermal Power and Refrigeration Engineering

Head of the Department
Valentyn Petrovych Petrenko
Professor, Doctor of Technical Sciences

(established in 1931)

The Department of Thermal Power and Refrigeration Engineering provides professional education for bachelors and masters in educational programs:

• Thermal power engineering and energy efficient technologies
• Refrigeration and technology

and in the specialties 144 «Thermal Power Engineering» and 142 «Power Machinery».

Also, the lecturers of the department take part in the teaching of other specialists such as process engineers and mechanical engineers.

The department has specialized laboratories:

• Fuel and high temperature units;
• Heat and mass transfer units and air conditioning;
• Refrigerating machines;
• Refrigeration units s and refrigeration technology;
• Repair and mounting of refrigeration units;
• 3D modeling of thermodynamic processes.

Branches of the department are based on Kyivenergo enterprises, sugar plants, thermal power plants, bakeries, hypermarkets, logistics warehouses, design organizations, research institutions of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, and other enterprises of food industry.

The staff of the department consists of more than twenty persons, including ten professors and thirteen associate professors. The department engages for part-time teaching well-known scientists and experienced manufacturing professionals. The staff of the department is replenished annually by young teachers-graduates of the department.

There are academicians, doctors, candidates of sciences, professors, associate professors, public figures and high-ranking executives among the graduates of the department. Specialists in thermal power and refrigeration engineering successfully work in the positions of engineers for operation, installation, design and adjustment of systems of heat and cold supply, heads of workshops, heads of thermal power plants, chief engineers and directors of enterprises. Many graduates work as managers and directors in business structures, including companies that supply heat and refrigeration equipment to the market of Ukraine. Those who have a penchant for research can work in academic or industry research institutions.

Our graduates honor the native department and the department doesn’t forget about them. The department booth shows the names of all graduates since its inception.

There is a postgraduate studies at the university. Postgraduate students of the department have the opportunity to defend their dissertations in the specialty 05.14.06 «Technical Thermophysics and Industrial Heat Power Engineering».

The department has all prerequisites for the training of highly qualified industry specialists and scientific and pedagogical workers of higher qualification.

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The department carries out training of specialists of:

Educational disciplines taught by the department

THE TOPIC OF RESEARCH WORK OF THE TEACHERS OF THE DEPARTMENT COVERS THE FOLLOWING MAIN AREAS:

• research, mathematical modeling and optimization of the thermal technological complexes of food production in order to improve the thermal technological regimes and rational use of fuel and energy resources;
• analytical and experimental research of hydrodynamic, heat and mass transfer processes in the working elements of heat and mass transfer equipment in order to develop new designs of heat and mass transfer apparatus;
• analytical and experimental research of thermodynamic processes in the working channels of film evaporators;
• research of biomass burning in association with coal (jointly with the Institute of Coal Energy Technologies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine);
• research of the operation of refrigeration units of food enterprises in order to reduce energy costs for production and improve its quality;
• development of methods of calculation and design of panel ice generators, cold storage batteries;
• research of the influence of temperature and parameters of water vapor on the restoration of adsorption properties of adsorbents for the food industry.