Ship’s heating engines

Polkovnikov Anatoly Karpovich

The Head of the Department
Associate Professor
Candidate of technical Sciences,

General reference
Department of “Ship's heating engines" was established in 1999 and is one of the three graduating departments of the engineering faculty. The Department provides professional training of sertificated specialists for the Marine fleet in the specialty "Operation of ship power plants" . Graduate qualification - mechanical engineer.

The faculty:
1. Polkovnikov Anatoly Karpovich – the head of the Department, candidate of technical Sciences, associate Professor;
2. Vaskevich Fedor Afanasjevich - doctor of technical Sciences, Professor;
3. Turkin Vladimir Antonovich - doctor of technical Sciences, Professor;
4. Nikolaev Nikolay Ivanovich - candidate of technical Sciences, Professor;
5. Elema Victor Afanasjevich - candidate of technical Sciences, Professor;
6. Shmelev Sergey kharlampievich - candidate of technical Sciences, Professor;
7. Markov Sergey Vasilyevich - candidate of technical Sciences, Professor;
8. Epikhin Alexei Ivanovich - candidate of technical Sciences, senior lecturer;
9. Brezhnev Alexander Viktorovich - candidate of technical Sciences, lecturer;
10. Vlasenko Boris Borisovich - lecturer (mechanical engineer I rank);
11. Orekhov Nikolai Andreevich - lecturer (mechanical engineer I rank).

The main directions of work of the Department
Organization and realization of educational process in the disciplines of special profile on the basis of approved state educational standards, curricula, work programs, reflecting the latest achievements of science and technology, their prospects of development, and in accordance with the requirements of the international Maritime organizations to train specialists in the field of water transport.
Methodological support of educational disciplines: preparation of manuals, guidelines, development of teaching materials, the usage of modern technical means of training, laboratory equipment, gym and computer equipment.
Research work for companies and organizations of Maritime industry. Organization and implementation of educational-research work of students, educational and industrial practice, course and graduation work.
Participation in the educational process. Ensuring the focus of the educational process on the maturing of the students the scientific worldview, the combination of moral and business qualities.

The scientific disciplines of the Department
1. Heat engineering (technical thermodynamics and heat transfer)
2. The ship measured
3. Maintenance of ship turbo machines
4. Ship boilers and vapour generating installation
5. Maintenance of vessel's boilers
6. Ship's internal combustion engines
7. Maintenance of internal combustion engines
8. Maintenance of ship's heating engines
9. Internal combustion engines of lifting-transport machines.

The main directions and heads of scientific - research work
1. Solving problems of technical operation of ship power plants based on modern informational technologies (Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor Shishkin, V. A., Candidate of Technical Sciences, associate Professor Polkovnikov A. K.).
2. Improving the efficiency of thermal usage on vessels (Candidate of Technical Sciences, associate Professor Polkovnikov A. K., Orekhov N. A., Gladyshev P. A.)
3. Summarize of experience of operating systems of remote automated control of main ship's engines (Candidate of Technical Sciences, associate Professor PolkovnikovA. K.).
4. Improving of the operation of ship's diesel installations (Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor Vaskevich F. A.).
5. Improvement of maintenance and optimization of parameters of vessel's facilities (Candidate of Technical Sciences, Professor Nikolaev N. I.)
6. Analysis of risk and safety of operation of vessel's facilities (Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor Turkin V. A.).
7. Utilization of secondary heat resources (Candidate of Technical Sciences, associate Professor Elema V. A.).
8. Development of the programs of tanker’s loading calculation (Candidate of Technical Sciences, associate Professor Shmelev, S. H.).
9. The influence of circulation ratio on heat engineering characteristics of the heat-recovery circuits of ship power plants (Candidate of Technical Sciences, senior lecturer Epikhin A. I.).

10 Candidate’s and 4 Doctoral theses protected at The Department.