Electricity of Ukraine is a powerful, complex and extensive technological complex, which is the basis for the functioning of all social production, ensuring the conditions of civilized life of the population.
The basis of the country’s electricity is its unified energy system, which provides electricity to consumers and interacts with the energy systems of neighboring countries, ensuring the export and import of electricity.
Today, Ukraine’s electric networks have more than 1 million km of overhead and cable power lines of all voltage classes, as well as more than 207,435 units of transformer substations with a voltage of 6 to 750 kV with a total capacity of over 201483 MVA.
Thousands of graduates of the Department of Electricity Transmission of Kharkiv NTU “KhPI”, which was founded by Academician of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Vasyl Mykhailovych Khrushchev in 1930, successfully work in the regional energy systems of Ukraine.
Where did it all begin…
In 1893, the only pre-revolutionary Kharkiv Higher Technical Educational Institution, the Institute of Technology, was the first to start teaching electrical engineering. Specialized training in the field of electrical engineering can be associated with the organization of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at HTI, the grand opening of which took place on February 22, 1921.
Professor PP was appointed Dean of the Faculty. Kopnyaev. In 1922 – 1923 Two professors were involved in the work at the faculty – AA Potebnya and VM Khrushchev.
Alexander Alexandrovich Potebnya
Professor AA Potebnya taught courses in electric traction and measurement, Professor VM Khrushchev – transients of electrical networks and collector AC machines.
Vasily Mikhailovich Khrushchev (Khrushchev)
For 10 years from 1921 to 1930 the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of HTI graduated 304 electrical engineers.
On April 17, 1930, on the eve of its tenth anniversary, the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of HTI was transformed into an independent Electrical Engineering Institute (HTI).
March 1930 is the exact date of birth of the Department of Electricity Transmission.
Academician VM Khrushchev headed the department from 1930 until the beginning of the Great Patriotic War. He was also one of the active organizers of HETI and the Institute of Industrial Energy in Kharkiv, which returned from evacuation to Kyiv and the Institute of Electrodynamics of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine was established on its basis.
During these years, training laboratories “Electrical Networks”, “High Voltage Engineering”, “Electrical Insulation Materials” were established, as well as a course of lectures on “Electrical Systems and Networks” was prepared, textbooks and manuals for students were published.
At the Department of “Electricity Transmission” developed courses on detailed consideration of local, mostly urban distribution networks, and issues of transmission of electricity at high voltage over long distances. Works by VM Khrushchev was widely used in the methods of economic analysis to solve network problems.
In 1932 the first graduation of engineers in the field of “Electrical Systems and Networks” in the number of 5 people, only in the prewar years the number of graduates of the department exceeded 200 people.
In the field of scientific research, the problems of insulation and overvoltage, as well as the study of the impulse characteristics of grounding conductors were laid in the foundation of the department.
Created in 1933, a pulse voltage generator of 3 million volts was made mobile, suitable for research in the field.
Studies of grounding conductors in the flow of pulsed currents were carried out on models and in kind with different electrical conductivity of soils near Kharkov, in the Donbass and on the island of Khortytsia. Valuable results were obtained, which are used in the calculations of lightning protection and design of electrical installations (supervisor Associate Professor Abram Lvovich Weiner).
Abram Lvovich Weiner
Studies of the deformation of waves under the influence of the corona made it possible to estimate the steepness of the waves crashing on the substation (supervisor Associate Professor Saul Markovich Fertyk).
Saul Markovic Fertik
After the war and the restoration of the institute, the department was headed by Associate Professor Fertyk SM (from 1943 to 1951), Associate Professor Gusev VV (from 1951 to 1955), Associate Professor Weiner AL (from 1955 to 1972), Associate Professor Gul VI (from 1972 to 1978), Associate Professor Skubko VA (from 1978 to 1987), Professor Bondarenko VO (from 1987 to 2019), Professor, Dr. Shevchenko S.Yu. (since 2019).
Sergey Shevchenko
Teaching staff of the department: professor, Ph.D. Shevchenko S.Yu., professor, Ph.D. Bondarenko VO, Professor, Ph.D. Cherkashina VV, Professor, Ph.D. Dovgalyuk OM, Professor, Ph.D. Barbashov IV, Professor, Ph.D. Omelyanenko GV, Professor, Ph.D., Nizhevsky VI, Professor, Ph.D. Khomenko IV, Associate Professor, Ph.D. Serdyukova GM, Associate Professor, Ph.D. Shutenko OV etc.
Territorially, the Department of Electricity Transmission is located in the right wing of the Electrical Building, its training laboratories cover an area of 543 m 2 .
The department has the only high-voltage hall in the Kharkiv region with a cascade of transformers with a voltage of 1 million volts and a field laboratory equipped with generators of pulse voltages of 1.2 and 4 million volts.
The department provides reading of more than 27 disciplines for the specialty “Electrical Systems and Networks” and 5 disciplines for students of power, electrical engineering and faculties of transport engineering.
The basic disciplines of the department are: “Electrical networks and systems”, “Ultra-high voltage power transmission”, “Power supply”, “Electromagnetic and electromechanical transients”, “Fundamentals of power mode control”, “Mathematical problems of energy”, “High voltage engineering and electrophysics” , “Overvoltages in electrical systems”, as well as a block of special disciplines.
Rich laboratory base, computer center, equipped with personal computers such as IBM PC, allows students to perform laboratory and research work, course design in electrical systems and networks, computers, high voltage technology, computer-aided design of stations, substations and power lines, questions business and marketing.
Basic disciplines of the specialty have a complete methodological support, developed under the guidance of leading teachers of the department, in the form of textbooks, lecture notes and guidelines for course and diploma design, practical classes and laboratory work.
The department is headed by Professor Shevchenko S.Yu.
In recent years, the department has completely updated the training facilities with modern technology. During this period, a huge scientific work was done in the high-voltage hall, which later became the first doctoral dissertation and was defended in 1994 by Associate Professor Viktor Ivanovich Omelyanenko (for many years he headed the Department of “Electric Transport and Diesel Engineering”). Then in 2002 his doctoral dissertation was defended by N.P. Волчуков. In 2004 the doctoral dissertation was defended by the head of the department Assoc. Bondarenko VO as the dean of the Faculty of Power Engineering, and six years later in one of the most prestigious specialized Councils of Ukraine defended his doctoral dissertation Assoc. Veprik Yu.N.
Graduates of the department are sent to work in the regional power systems of UES of Ukraine as engineers of substations and overhead lines, in the control departments of PES and REM, and can work at enterprises, research and design organizations of electrical engineering and in all electrical departments of other organizations. profile as heads of these departments, electrical engineers, energy engineers, calculators, researchers, service engineers, Monti and installation of electrical equipment.
There is no such region on the map of Ukraine, where graduates of the department would not work: this is Zakarpattia and Krymenerho, Horlivka, Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhia. Kyiv, Lutsk and, of course, Sumy, Poltava, Kharkiv. There are our graduates in far and near abroad.
Graduates of the department at different times held the positions of General Director of Donbasenergo (Semenov YK, hereinafter Deputy Minister of Energy and Electrification), Deputy Minister and Chief Engineer of the Institute “Energomerezhproekt” (Ph.D. Ershevich VV), Deputy. Minister of Energy of Ukraine (VI Timchenko), Deputy director of the Zaporizhia Transformer Plant (Krivopal VV); Director of the Institute “Ukrenergomerezhproekt” (Ph.D. Chevichelov VA); ch. engineer and director of the same institute (Yarovy VM): first deputy of DAEK “Kharkivoblenergo” (Olshevsky AM), directors of regional electric networks (Sukhonos KB), head of energy sales of “Kharkivoblenergo” (Kirik SV, Dyadkov VV), and the last ten years Kirik SV was the chairman of the board of JSC “Kharkovobenergo”, undoubted merits has worked with SV Kirik technical director of JSC “Kharkovobenergo” Ph.D. Ganus AI,Head of the Electrical Department of the Kharkivproekt Institute (VM Lyagov); Director of the Central Main Electric Networks of Horlivka (Drobot VK) and many, and many other graduates of the Department of PEE.
Many graduates joined the ranks of scientists of higher educational institutions and research institutions (Ph.D., Prof. V. Sivokobylenko, Ph.D. Kazarnovsky AS, Ph.D. Krivushkin LF , Ph.D. Abramova LI, Ph.D. Kachev AS).
The main direction of research work of the staff of the Department of “Electricity Transmission” is the development, research and implementation of methods and tools to improve the reliability, safety and efficiency of power systems and installations.
The staff of the department took part in the creation of the first power transmission lines of 500 kV (Kuibyshev – Moscow), 750 kV (Donbass – Albertirsha), 1150 kV AC (Ekibastuz – Center). The department also worked on the creation of reliable lightning protection and grounded the first in Africa 500 kV transmission line Aswan – Cairo, lightning protection trolleybus line Simferopol – Alushta – Yalta. Recommendations for lightning protection of the contact network of the Magnitogorsk Metallurgical Plant have been developed and implemented.
The results of studies of the natural conductivity of reinforced concrete supporting structures of electrical installations were used in the new version of the guidelines of the Ministry of Energy for their accounting as natural grounding.
The department was the organizer of All-Union meetings in Kharkov on the basis of KhPI. VI Lenin (1941, 1958 and 1966) and the Republican Conferences (1972, 1978 and 1980) on grounded issues with a wide representation of employees of energy associations of the Ministry of Energy, universities and research institutes.
In recent years, the department has developed a new direction in the field of diagnostics of high-voltage equipment (headed by Prof. Bondarenko VO), as well as ongoing work in the field of lightning and surges (Assoc. Prof. Nizhevsky VI, Prof. Shevchenko S. Yu.), In the field of conductivity studies of different types of soils and determination of electrical safety characteristics.
The scientific developments of the department have been implemented at the energy facilities of the UES of Ukraine and regional systems, with which it is united by many years of cooperation.
Laureate of the State Prize of Ukraine, Ph.D. Associate Professor Dovgalyuk OM Active preparation of the perspective direction “Algorithmization of emergency control in electric systems and ways of its maintenance” is actively conducted.
The scientific developments of the department have been implemented at the energy facilities of the UES of Ukraine and regional systems, with which it is united by many years of cooperation.
The department constantly trains highly qualified personnel for the electric power industry of Ukraine.
In connection with the country’s transition to market relations, a number of new courses have appeared in the curriculum: “Operational Management of Electric Power Systems”, “Market Relations in Energy”. The department pays a lot of attention to issues of economic and legal training, deeper study of a foreign language.
The teaching staff of the Department of Electricity Transmission retains a high scientific and pedagogical potential, which allows for in-depth training of specialists in one of the basic areas of electricity to address the development of UES of Ukraine in the third millennium.