Department
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Research fields
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Thermal Power and Heat Engineering
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Increasing efficiency and reliability of the industrial power engineering equipment;
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Studying heat exchange processes in the turbulent streams and developing highly effective techniques for various purposes;
- Improving the production and combustion processes of granulated fuels;
- Alternative and renewable sources in the Arctic region;
- Investigation of thermal degradation of different wood-based biofuels of the northwest region of the Russian Federation.
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Electric Power and Electrical Engineering
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- Reduction of electrical power losses when energy generating and distributing;
- Improvement of reliability of electrical power supply systems and the power quality;
- Electrical power modes management.
- Reduction of man-induced impact in the European part of the Russian North;
- Optimization of plant power supply systems;
- Improvement of the alternative power sources use methods in the North environment;
- Improvement of timber processing plants’ electro-technological units;
- Development of calculation methods, moisture transport processes during desiccation of wood.
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Oil and Gas Transportation, Storage and Oil and Gas Field Equipment
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- Modeling oil spills in the South-Eastern part of the Barents Sea using OSCAR computer model
- Assessing environmental risks when exploiting oil and gas deposits
- Additionally to this the patents obtained for industrial introduction of technologie
- Improving construction reliability of wellsites, oil pipe lines, roads built on permafrost
- Developing ways to utilize oil-based wastes when constructing oil and gas objects
- Proposing measures to protect topsoil in tundra and rehabilitate disturbed lands
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Oil and Gas Wells Drilling, Development of Oil and Gas Fields
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- Preparing reagents of drilling technological fluids on the basis of production wastes
- Developing a well drilling automatic control system
- Developing pipe-line supports
- Developing separator cones for drill fluids
- Complex studying of drill samples, defining physical and chemical characteristics of inter-bedding fluids by deep and surface samples
- Studying properties of oil in place, including high-viscosity oil
- Studying conditions for generation of asphaltens and tar-paraffin sediments in oil wells and oil pipe lines
- Studying structures of asphaltens and tar-paraffin sediments and choosing reagents to eliminate the above sediments
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Geology and Mining Operations
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- Developing ways to optimize solid mineral deposit development and land recultivation
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