HIT Institute of Advanced Power (formerlyInstitute of Power Engineering Control and Simulation established in 1998) has 16 faculties, including 3 professors (3 of them are advisors of PhD student) and 7 associate professor.
Primary research areas are control, modeling and experiment technology of aerospace and civil power related areas and their relative basic theory and application. Recently the main research topics include plasma thruster theory and experiment research, turbo control and simulation, ramjet control, power plant and power system control, data mining technology and its application, nonlinear vibration of large rotating machinery, artificial intelligence application on fault diagnosis of rotating machinery, design of active magnetic bearing rotor system, and fluid-structure interaction problems. We have gas turbine rotor shafts simulation experiment apparatus, supercritical turbine-generator rotor bearing systems experiment apparatus, auto balance experiment apparatus, full-scale aeroengine experiment apparatus, high speed rolling bearing experiment apparatus and vibration measurement system, large vacuum experiment system of plasma thruster and Hardware-In-The-Loop simulation platform of SPT control system.
In the past ten years, the research institute has totally completed more than 40 national 115 and 125 key research projects, 863 projects, the national defence research projects and natural science fund projects. 1 national-level reward, 6 provisional and ministerial level rewards and 40 patents were obtained.The state monitoring and fault diagnosis system for gas turbine sets has been developed for the first time in China and until now 35 sets of system are used in over 20 power plants, chemical plants and aeroengine test beds. We also developed the second generation of plasma thruster prototype for the first time inChina, whose performance index reaches the international advanced level.
The research institute has published nearly 300 papers in domestic and international publications in the past ten years, more than 150 of which are included by EI, SCI.