Research Areas
The research areas conducted by the Power Engineering Team include theoretical analyses and experimental studies in the following issue groups:
- Power engineering problems in the transmission and distribution of electricity in AC and DC systems at medium, high, and very high voltages.
- Modeling and analysis of power engineering networks and systems.
- Operation issues of power systems, including exposure and fault conditions.
- Technology and operation problems of power cables.
- Work on the development of renewable and distributed energy, including the integration of distributed energy sources with the power system.
- High voltage engineering.
- Optimization of high voltage insulation systems.
- Diagnostics of high voltage power equipment, including transformers, electrical machines, cables, and insulators.
- Advanced measurement methods and techniques in high voltage research, including: partial discharges, spatial charges, relaxation and impulse phenomena in dielectrics.
- Physical studies of the degradation processes of high voltage electrical insulation materials.
- Studies of electrical discharge phenomena, their initiation, and development.
- High voltage testing techniques, measurements, tests, and trials in high voltage laboratories.
- Protective automation in power engineering.
- Surge analysis in power systems, particularly their causes, propagation, and mitigation methods.
- Electromagnetic interference measurements and analyses in power engineering.
- Techno-economic problems in power engineering.
- Environmental impact issues of power engineering objects on the environment.
Leading Unit
Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Automatics, Computer Science and Biomedical Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering and Power Engineering
Laboratories:
- High Voltage Laboratory – Research and Teaching (non-accredited)
- Electrical Networks and Devices Laboratory – Research and Teaching (non-accredited)
- Surge and Surge Protection Laboratory – Research and Teaching (non-accredited)
- Electrical Protection Automation Laboratory – Research and Teaching (non-accredited)
- New Technologies in Power Engineering Laboratory – Research (accredited)