Decision of the Conference
on
The Results of Basic Research in the Field of Power
Engineering and Their Practical Significance

Moscow, JIHT RAS
March 26, 2008

   It is of urgent necessity to solve the problems associated with the development of the power industry, with the development of highly efficient environmentally safe power-generating plants, and with energy conservation in the case of various production processes. These problems are on the list of priority spheres of research approved by the Government of the Russian Federation.

     The problems of development of the power industry were discussed at a session of the General Meeting of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In accordance with decisions taken by the relevant authorities, basic research activities in the field of energy with subsequent practical implementation of the results were carried out at the institutes of the Division of Power Engineering, Mechanics and Control Systems and of the Siberian Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences in cooperation with other energy-related organizations.

The Conference observes the following:
        

  Much attention was given at the Conference to the results of “global” activities devoted to the long-term forecasting of the development of the entire energy complex of Russia. A number of organizations represented at the Conference, including JIHT RAS, take an active part in this work. It must be emphasized that the results of a number of activities were reported at various forums and enjoy the support of the Academy of Sciences. They won a high appraisal of OAO Mosenergo (power utility company of Moscow) and RAO ES Rossii (Power Systems of Russia Company), as well as of governmental agencies.

  The Conference dealt with a wide range of problems and their solutions in the scientific-and-technical spheres of energy-related investigations, which are expected to lead in attaining the energy effect in the power generation and consumption. These are, first of all, gas-turbine technologies. These spheres further include electrochemical power engineering, hydrogen power engineering, and the most recent new sphere of aluminum-hydrogen power engineering. These are the investigations of supercapacitors which make possible significant energy savings, in particular, in various branches of transport. These are renewable sources of energy. These are plasma technologies which already find application in various branches of industry.

  These spheres of research are listed in the Program of Basic Research of State Academies of Sciences for 2008–2012, approved by Order no. 233 r (spheres 16, 17, 18) of the Government of the Russian Federation of February 27, 2008.

  It is pertinent to note that, in the majority of cases, the investigations in fact pass through a complete cycle, starting from the conception of the idea, followed with theoretical and experimental investigations, down to the development of prototype (and often breadboard) specimen and/or production of recommendations.

  The presentations made at the Conference deal with facilities in different power ranges. These are both large-scale power plants, small-scale facilities (of the order of hundreds of kilowatts and several megawatts), and microscale energy facilities. In view of this, some problems associated with energy systems are considered, in particular, those of improving the reliability of power supply.

  Energy carriers of various types are considered, both conventional (gas, coal) and new.

  One can see from some of the presentations that the results of R&D activities in the field of power engineering are often effectively employed for developing new technologies in other branches of industry (for example, in ferrous metallurgy).

  The Conference was attended by scientists and specialists from various regions, including Siberia and the North-East of the Russian Federation, as well as the Ukraine. Altogether, five plenary and 93 section reports were made. Representatives of 44 organizations took part in the Conference activities, including the leading energy-related research and educational institutions of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ministry of Education and Science, RAO EES Rossii and others (Joint Institute for High Temperatures of the Russian Academy of Sciences JIHT RAS), Institute of Energy Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IEI), Institute of Thermophysics of Siberian Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Baikov Institute of Metallurgy and Materials Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Energy Problems in Chemical Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Physicotechnical Problems of the North of Siberian Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences, All-Russia Institute of Heat-Power Engineering (VTI), All-Russia Research Institute of Railroad Transport, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow Institute of Power Engineering, Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Moscow Aviation Institute, Moscow State University of Environmental Engineering, and a number of others), as well as enterprises such as NIK-NEP, Kosogorskii metallurgical works, and others. The Conference was attended by 210 scientists and specialists, including three Members and nine Corresponding Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

  The Russian Foundation for Basic Research provided support in organizing the Conference.

The Conference
  1) regard as useful the exchange of information about the results of research in the field of power engineering and on the implementation of these results and approve of the subjects of presentations to the Conference, of the range of problems discussed, of the assignment of these problems to relevant sections, and of the principal inferences made in the presentations;
  2) believe it advisable to request the Organizing Committee to arrange for the publication of a collection of the most interesting reports;
  3) believe it advisable to continue and expand the investigations and the implementation of the results in the spheres discussed at the plenary session and in the sections, namely,

– integrated activities aimed at development and renovation of energy systems under market conditions, including the problems associated with economic efficiency, energy safety, and environmental protection,

– optimization of systems of electrical power and heat supply in view of the problems (including technical-and-economic, technological, environmental, investment, and legal) of developing decentralized power-generating plants,

– basic research into thermodynamic processes, thermal properties of working media and structural materials, and processes of complex heat and mass transfer (including that in chemically reacting media),

– gas-turbine technologies, including steam-gas facilities, gas-steam ones with injection of water into the working medium, coal-fired facilities, energy-technology facilities,

– activities aimed at developing supercapacitors of new generation,

– electrochemical power generation involving the development of electrochemical generators (including those for means of transportation) and chemical generators of hydrogen utilizing the hydrothermal reaction of aluminum,

– renewable sources of energy.

The Conference are of the opinion that it is advisable to hold such conferences at least once every two years.

 

Cochairman of the Conference		Cochairman of the Conference
Academician V.E. Fortov		Academician A.E. Sheindlin

Dr. R.R. Grigoryants

 Scientific Secretary of the Conference