Global Energy Prize International Award Committee members participate in colloquium at MPEI

On the 27th and 29th of May MPEI was visited by the members of Global Energy Prize International Award Committee and Deputy Head of Global Energy Association Alexander Ignatov. In the framework of the visit guests took part in the colloquium that was organized in order to popularize technical sciences and attract young scientists to the issues of global power engineering.

The event has become traditional for MPEI. This time the MPEI rector, Nikolay Rogalev took part in the event.

On the first day the reports were presented by Honorary Director General of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) Adnan Amin and Managing Director of Asia Renewables, Head of Greenpower Fuels, Director of the Conchubar Infrastructure Fund William Byun. From MPEI part reports were made by Dr.Sc. Professor Tyagunov and Ph.D. students of the Department of Hydro Power and Renewable Energy Mr. Shohzoda, Mr. Ignatyev and Mr. Thu Rein Minh.

Adnan Amin reported on the stimulation of transport sector transformation. According to him, in 2018, the sales of electric vehicles exceeded 2 million units, which is 58% more than the sales volume of the previous year.

William Byun, on his turn, spoke about the energy-related issues facing Tropical Asia and the Arctic, as well as about the potential of this region.

On the 29th of May, 2012 Global Energy Prize laureate, International Award Committee member, Honorable Doctor of MPEI Rodney John Allam presented a report on the ''Allam Cycle'' to the participants of the colloquium. British scientist is working on the development of new effective power engineering systems, currently on the project that supposes using liquefied oxygen to gain energy.

After the speech of professor Allam a group of young scientists from MPEI consisting of Sergey Osipov, Ph.D. of Steam and Gas Turbines department, Darya Harlamova, Ph.D. of Department of Innovative Technologies for High-Tech Industries department, Vladimir Kindra, Ph.D. of Thermal Power Plants department, made a report on the results of the project development, aimed on creating science-technique impact for the oxygen-fuel power engineering stations, that is realized under the financial support of Russian Scientific Foundation. The results of the development and research of unique designs of a multithreaded high-temperature regenerative heat exchanger, a cooled high-temperature supercritical carbon dioxide turbine, and a high-pressure oxygen-fuel combustion chamber for the Allam cycle were presented. Methods of intensification of heat transfer for plate heat exchangers operating at high pressure and temperature levels, approaches to increasing the efficiency of convective-film cooling of high-temperature gas turbine blades, and ways to ensure stable combustion of the oxygen-fuel mixture in supercritical carbon dioxide were considered in detail.
The report of young scientists provoked a lively discussion and was highly esteemed by Dr. Allam. In his opinion, the results obtained of research could be a scientific base for creating first Russian oxygen-fuel power complexes that produce no pollution.

The colloquium was concluded by the report on ''Hydrogen Power. Autonomous Power Systems on the fuel elements for drones and robots'', presented by Dr.Sc. professor Sergey Nefedkin.

Reports of the ceremony participants caused high interest among the attending students and teachers of MPEI. At the end of the conference lecturers replied to the questions of the audience.

The Global Energy Prize annually underlines outstanding achievements in energy research and technology from around the world that are helping to address world’s various and pressing energy challenges. The award was created in 2002 and given to the leading scientists worldwide.
Nikolay Rogalev has been named a member of the Award Committee in 2019.

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