Main research activities of the Center:

  • system research on ecological problems in power engineering and coal ash handling;
  • R&D on the coal ash handling;
  • provision of information and consulting, expert and other scientific and technical services in the field of power engineering;
  • collecting and analytic processing of scientific, technical and other information on nature protection technologies;
  • publication of information and analytical collections on nature protection technologies in power engineering;
  • organisation and holding international scientific conferences and practical workshops on nature protection technologies in power engineering and coal ash handling;
  • creation and systematic update of the data base "The Best Available and Perspective Nature Protection Technologies in the Russian Power Industry" in Russian and English.

Research activities on coal ash handling:

  • Development of normative and technical documentation for the replacement of natural materials with coal ash.
  • Assessment of erosion of pneumatic conveying installations and working out recommendations on its reduction.
  • Working out legal, normative and technical documentation on coal ash and on creation of reliable, cost-effective and ecologically sound ash and slag removal systems at TPPs.
  • Assessment of technical, economic and ecological indices of ash and slag removal systems at TPPs; working out complex measurements for raising their efficiency.
  • Working out and introduction of technical proposals on modernization of existing ash and slag removal systems and creating new ones with high technical, economic and acceptable ecological indices.
  • Creation of level control systems for coal dust and ash in coal-dust bunkers and silos of coal-dust collecting and ash pneumatic conveying plants.
  • Creation of level control systems for acid, alkalis, oil products and other liquids in TPP tanks.
  • Sediment cleaning of coal ash lines and pipelines of clarified water of hydraulic ash disposal systems.
  • Automation of ash pneumatic conveying plants under pressure.
  • Development of locking and regulating armature for ash pneumatic conveying systems.
  • Development of ash pneumatic conveying plants with the transportation distance up to the 3000 meters.