Nuclear heating plants and medical engineering

Professions

The department is the part of the Physico-technical faculty established on September, the 1st 1962. During the first period the faculty provided the USSR's military - industrial complex with the experts in the field of nuclear power industry. The development of the nuclear power industry in the country and all over the world demanded for organization of the personnel training for design, manufacturing, erection, commissioning and operation of the equipment, circuits, loops and systems of the nuclear power plants. In response to the demand of the branch in 1972 at the Physico - technical faculty was established the department "Nuclear power plants" in order to train specialists capable to work in the fuel and energy industry with the emphasis on nuclear power industry at all the stages: from R&D to nuclear power plant decommissioning.

The teaching staff formed on the basis of other departments of the Physico-technical faculty outsourcing the specialists from the Experimental Design Bureau of Machine Building; the first head of the department was one of the founders of the Physico-technical faculty, M. P. Tuzov, the NSTU's rector. Under his direction was set up the department's curriculum, were established the university laboratories, there were organized the commercial and state-funded R&Ds. V. M. Budov, Doctor of Engineering, full professor, the head of the computation division of the Experimental Design Bureau of Machine Building who in 1977 replaced M. P. Tuzov and became the head of the department, made a significant contribution to the department development. Under direction of V. M. Budov was organized the structure of training of the future department teaching staff by means of Ph. D. theses' defending by graduates of the Physico - technical faculty, who formed the actual teaching staff of the department. In 1989 - 1990 the department was headed by Vladimir Aleksandrovich Farafonov. Aleksandr Viktorovich Beznosov became the head of the department in 1990. Under his direction the department became the leading one at the faculty and the Polytechnic Institute. By his direction and direct involvement were opened two dissertation boards to defend the Ph. D. theses, then two dissertation boards to defend the Doctor dissertations. As of 2006 the department possesses the Doctorate Boards to defend the dissertations D 212.165.03 and DS212.012.01 in the professions 05.04.11 - "Nuclear reactor industry, machinery, plants and nuclear industry materials technology"; 05.14.03 - " Nuclear power plants", 05.02.01 "Materials technology (in nuclear power industry)". Since 1999 was established and set up the training in the professions 100500 and 190600. In 2002 was established the branch of the department at the State Research Institute (GNU) "Radio physical research institute" to train the specialists in the profession "Biomedicine engineering (Engineering of bioinstrumentation (medical-biological apparatus))". Also in 2002 was established the branch of the department at the federal state unitary enterprise "Experimental design bureau of machine building named after I. I. Afrikantov". In 2005 was established the branch of the department at the federal state unitary enterprise "Nizhny Novgorod State Research, Design, Construction, and Survey Institute Atomenergoproekt".

At present the department's staff consists of more than 30 persons including one academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 4 academicians and 1 corresponding member (of academies of different science branches), 2 holders (laureates) of the Sate Prizes, one Honored Worker of Science of Russian Federation, 14 Doctors of Science, 12 full professors.

Since 2003 the head of the department became Sergey Mikhaylovich Dmitriev, Doctor of Engineering, full professor, and the NSTU's pro-rector for teaching and methodological activities.

Staff professors (in-service professors):

• Sergey Mikhaylovich Dmitriev - head of the department, Doctor of Engineering, full professor, academician of the Russian Academy of Industrial Ecology, academic secretary of two NSTU's Dissertation Boards in the professions 05.04.11, 05.02.01 and 05.14.03. He lectures on the "Heat-mass exchange in power plants", "Nuclear steam generators" for the students of professions 101000, 190600, 100500.


• Aleksandr Dmitrievich Beznosov - Doctor of Engineering, full professor, academician of the Russian Academy of Industrial Ecology, deputy chairman of two NSTU's dissertation boards in the professions 05.14.03, 05.02.01 and 05.04.11. He lectures on the "Nuclear and heat power plants".


• V. M. Farafonov - Candidate of Science (Ph. D. of Engineering), associate professor. He lectures on "Nuclear reactors", "Thermotechnical calculations and metrology".


• S. A. Zamyatin - Candidate of Science (Ph. D. of Engineering), associate professor. He lectures on "Fluid mechanics", "Turbomachines".


• I. V. Karatushina - Candidate of Science (Ph. D. of Engineering), associate professor, head of the training development department of NSTU. She lectures on "Heat and nuclear power plants' nuclear diagrams".


• Dmitry Vladimirovich Spiridonov - Candidate of Science (Ph. D. of Engineering), associate professor, deputy head of the department. He lectures on "Fluid mechanics", "Heat-mechanic and auxiliary equipment of power plants".


• Aleksandr Yevgenyevich Khrobostov - Candidate of Science (Ph. D. of Engineering), associate professor, deputy dean of the Physico-technical faculty on undergraduates. He lectures on "Heat-mass exchange principles", practical training in "Heat-mass exchange in power plants", "Power equipment manufacturing and assembly techniques".


• Sergey Sergeevich Pinaev - Candidate of Science (Ph. D. of Engineering), assistant professor. He lectures on "System analysis and decision-making. Experiment organization", "Calibration test, safety and reliability of medical technology", "Heat and nuclear power plants II".


• Sergey Igorevich Merzlyakov - Candidate of Medical Science (Ph. D. of Medicine), associate professor. He lectures on "Medical system materials".


• Aleksandr Georgievich Meluzov - assistant professor, deputy head of the department responsible for the profession 190600. He lectures on "Medical devices", "Medical equipment manufacturing technology".


• Tatyana Aleksandrovna Bokova - assistant professor. She lectures on "Steam generating units of power plant units"; "Fuel and power machinery fuel oil engineering".

Training support staff:

• Vasily Yevgenyevich Serov - chief of the department laboratories. He directs the organization and solution of engineering problems dealing with forming and improvement of the research and training facilities of the department.


• Inna Vitoldovna Danilova - principal engineer, time-table clerk of the department.

The leading specialists of the branch cooperate with the department:

• F. M. Mitenkov, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Engineering, full professor, research manager of the federal state unitary enterprise "Experimental design bureau of machine building";


• V. V. Petrunin, Doctor of Engineering, full professor, first deputy director of the federal state unitary enterprise "Experimental design bureau of machine building";


• N. M. Sorokin, Candidate of Science (Ph. D. of Engineering), full professor, engineering director of the federal state unitary enterprise Korund "Rosenergoatom";


• E. G. Novinsky - Doctor of Engineering, full professor, academician, head of a department of federal state unitary enterprise "Experimental design bureau of machine building";


• O. B. Samoylov, Doctor of Engineering, full professor, academician, chief designer of the "Experimental design bureau of machine building";


• Yu. G. Korotkikh, Doctor of Science (Physics and Mathematics), full professor;


• S. N. Pichkov - Doctor of Engineering, full professor;


• N. G. Sandler - Doctor of Engineering;


• Sergey Danatovich Snegirev - Doctor of Engineering, director of the Nizhny Novgorod Radio physical research institute;


• Anna Alekseevna Artifeksova - Doctor of Medicine, chief pathologist of Nizhny Novgorod.

They are the leading experts of the branch giving the corresponding courses and transferring to the students hands-on experience of working in the industry and medical practice.

Teaching and methodological activities

The department's staff trains students of the professions 140404.65 - "Nuclear power plants", 140101.65 - "Heat-power plants", 200402.65 - "Biomedicine engineering".

The department's staff teaches in more than 40 special subjects of current professions in accordance with the curricula.

The department teaching staff trains:

• Bachelors of:
  • 140100.62 "Heat-power engineering";
  • 140400.62 "Applied physics";
  • 200300.62 "Biomedicine engineering".
• Graduate engineers of:
  • 140404.65 "Nuclear power plants";
  • 200402.65 "Biomedicine engineering";
  • 140101.65 "Heat-power plants".
• Masters of:
  • 140100.68 "Heat-exchange processes and heat-exchange equipment";
  • 140400.68 "Physical problems of nuclear power engineering".

In order to provide the training more than 50 teaching guidelines and teaching aids have been published by the NSTU' s publishing house and by the central publishing houses
(V. M. Budov, S. M. Dmitriev. Forced NPP heat exchangers (Forsirovannye teploobmenniki YaEU). -Moscow: Energoatomizdat, 1989 (III)-179 pages;
F. M. Mitenkov, E. G. Novinsky, V. M. Budov. APP pumps (Nasosy AES). -Moscow: Energoatomizdat, 1984.-320 pages; V. M. Budov, A. A. Farafonov. Design of the atomic power plant permanent equipment (Konstruirovanie osnovnogo oborudovaniya AES). -Moscow: Energoatomizdat,1986.-260 pages etc.),
S. M. Dmitriev, V. B. Platonov, A. G. Orlov, I. N. Sorokin, V. A. Fartafonov "Heat-exchange and pumping equipment of an atomic power plant". Training aid published at the NSTU's publishing house, 394 pages.

The department possesses the university laboratories (in accordance with curricula). The training facilities of the department branches at the Experimental design bureau of machine building, the Radio physical research institute, "Atomenergoproekt" as well as other major city enterprises like Research Institute of Mechanics, Regional Medical diagnostic center are used as laboratories in the course of training.

R&D

There are the following main trends of research at the department:

• scientific and technical basis and technologies to design high - duty steam generator and heat exchangers (heat-mass exchange in the power reactor facilities (methods of analysis and structural analysis of the high - duty heat exchangers; fluid dynamics and heat exchange in the channels of prospective cores)), research manager - S. M. Dmitriev, Doctor of Engineering, full professor;


• scientific and technical principles and technologies of application of heavy liquid-metal coolants in the fission reactors, fusion reactors, particle accelerator-controlled reactors (liquid-metal coolants of the fission reactors, fusion reactors, particle accelerator-controlled reactors (technologies, materials, designs, operation conditions); water coolant technology (heat-exchange surface cleaning of deposits, water conditioning)); fossil fuel small-scale power generation), research manager - A. V. Beznosov, Doctor of Engineering, full professor;


• scientific and technical principles and technologies of the steam-turbine and heat-exchanger condensers' cleaning of deposits (power reactor facilities' safety; steam turbine condensers' and other heat-exchange equipment's surface cleaning of deposits, fossil fuel small-scale power generation), S. A. Zamyatin, Candidate of Science (Ph. D. of Engineering), associate professor;


• scientific and technical principles and technologies of plumbous, domestic and industrial waste utilization (methods of analysis and structural analysis of the power reactor facilities' heat-exchangers, (plumbous, domestic and industrial) waste utilization technologies, technologies of oil and oil product (spilled on earth and water surface) gathering and utilization), research manager - V. A. Farafonov, Candidate of Science (Ph. D. of Engineering), associate professor;


• The department has research laboratories on heat exchangers and medical technology.

Social activities

S. M. Dmitriev is the academic secretary of two Doctorate Boards (D212.165.03, DS212.012.01) at NSTU, the executive secretary of the Nizhny Novgorod regional branch of the Russian Academy of Industrial Ecology. He is the member of teaching and methodological department of the profession 101000, member of the NSTU's Academic Council and Council of Physico-technical faculty, chairman of the teaching and methodological department of the profession 550900, professions 101000 and 190600.

A. V. Beznosov is the member of the editorial board of the "Nuclear power engineering" ("Yadernaya energetika") (Proceedings of universities), the member of the interindustry coordinating board on thermal physics, member of the board of the Nizhny Novgorod regional branch of the Russian Nuclear Society, chairman of the Nizhny Novgorod regional department of the Academy of Industrial Ecology, deputy chairman of two Doctorate Boards of NSTU (D212.165.03, DS212.012.01). Two Doctorate Boards of NSTU function actually on the basis of the department (consisting of 6 members, among them are the deputy chairman and academic secretary); the Nizhny Novgorod branch of the Academy of Industrial Ecology. The department takes an active part in organization and holding of the annual conferences on thermal physics (on the basis of the State Research Center "Nuclear Power Engineering Institute"), annual young researchers' conference "Future of engineering".

International relations

The department maintains broad R&D cooperation with foreign institutions: Nuclear Power Institute of China (NPIC) (postgraduate and Master degree course, retraining of specialists, joint R&D) (The Idaho National Laboratory (INL) (USA), Laboratoire National du Saint Vermont, France, ITR office in San-Diego, USA).

The experts of the department participate annually in the international conferences; from time to time they publish articles in the leading international and Russian magazines.

Technical infrastructure

• FT-1 research plant, coolant - eutectics lead-bismuth, mass 10 tons, consumption up to 100 tons/hour, temperature - up to 600⁰ C;
• FT-2 research plant, coolants - lead, lead-bismuth, lead-lithium, gallium, lithium; temperatures - up to > 600⁰ C, intensity of the transverse magnetic field at the length of 1 m is up to 1 Tesla;
• FT-80 research plant, coolants - water, steam, temperature is up to 330⁰C, pressure is up to 200 kgf/cm² (atm) with information output and its further computer processing.
• FT - 252 research plant, air coolant, consumption - 15000 m³/hour, air pressure in 600 millimeters of mercury with data output and its further computer processing.

Less powerful plants with liquid-metal and water coolant are available.

The head of the "Nuclear heating plants and medical engineering" department is S. M. Dmitriev.