36.01. Laboratory of Electrotechnical Composite Materials


Main courses of discovery

  • Development of physical and chemical bases of composite materials for electrical purposes.

Themes of scientific research

Development of physical and chemical principles of powder composite materials creation for electrical purposes to work in extreme conditions:

  • Arcing in a vacuum, air, sulfur hexafluoride and other media for switching currents in electric networks of high power;
  • High-speed sliding contact in low voltage power networks;
  • Resistance welding structural materials and alloys.

Investigation of structure formation of properties of vapor-phase composite materials;

Applied research on contact details and electrodes manufacturing technology optimization for various purposes, using powder metallurgy technology and electron beam evaporation and condensation.

Best results

  • Technology for electrical arcing contacts obteining from Cr-Cu composites materials, used on heavy loaded vacuum-type switching devices (TU and TI, SE "Генератор", Кyiv);
  • Technology for Ag-Ni composites contact-details obtaining used on electrical apparatus, from recycled of industrial wastes silver (STA "Львівська залізниця", TU and TI "Аргентум", Lvov).
  • Technology of complex-composite powders producing on the basis of a Co-Cu-Al-Y-Si with predetermined fraction composition (40-100 microns), based on a consistent mechanical crushing of ingots, for the plasma coating turbine blades manufacture (patents).
  • New powder compositions based on tin bronze with addition of CaF2 for high-speed low-voltage electrical sliding contacts with the thermal strain measurement is the blades aviaturbin (SMB "Прогрес", ТR, АО "Моторсіч", Zaporizhzhia).
  • New powder materials on Ag based with substantial mass fraction of carbon (60%) for the relay contacts and rail transport in the devices of automatic blocking (TU and TI).

Staff

Khomenko O.
s.r.sc., c.e.