By order of the IAEA MEPhI Department of Automatics has developed a specialized training and research laboratory “Turbine hall of NPP with WWER-1000” for the Belarusian National Technical University (BNTU) within the project BYE2004. The laboratory is based on a computer simulator of the turbine hall of the NPP and is intended for practical classes and research studies conducted by undergraduate and postgraduate students.

This Laboratory provides the opportunity to implement a wide range of training tasks, including:

• Practical application of theoretical knowledge, such as design of turbines and related equipment, function and composition of technological systems of a turbine generator, technological processes in equipment, operating modes and principles of safe operation, purpose and structure of control and protection systems, control principles and algorithms for a turbine generator;

• Acquisition of general skills for management of the turbine generator at the NPP with WWER-1000 reactor in normal operation and modes with violations of normal conditions.

The laboratory “Turbine hall of NPP with WWER-1000” was delivered to BNTU in accordance with the collaboration program between MEPhI and the IAEA, under which the Department №2 previously developed a computer simulator of WWER-1000, transferred to the IAEA for free use by the participant countries, as well as a specialized laboratory “Reactor physics, control and safe operation of NPP with WWER-1000 reactor”, delivered to a number of foreign technical universities.

The laboratory has equipment of main and auxiliary technology systems, sensors, measuring channels, control, monitoring and protection complexes, systems for operating conditions, principles and control algorithms.

In the photo: developers of teaching and research laboratory “Turbine hall of NPP with WWER-1000” (Department № 2).