A meeting of the Regional Technical Council on the direction of end-to-end NTI technology "New and portable energy sources" was held within the walls of the YURSPU (NPI). Representatives of NP ITC "Intech-Don", LLC "InEnergy", LLC NPP "INTOR", JSC IF "Orion-HIT", SFU and YURGPU(NPI) gathered to share their thoughts, ideas and best practices on the stated topic with each other.

The president of NP ITC "Intech-Don" I.Y. Brink addressed the audience with an introductory speech.

On behalf of Acting Rector Yu.I. Razorenov, R.G. Zaitsev greeted the conference participants, noting that the administration of our university supports areas related to promising technologies, end-to-end technologies for the development of science and technology of the Russian Federation. "We have done, are doing and will do everything possible to create such "growth points" that would enter new markets for scientific and technical products, new scientific and educational competencies appear," Roman Gennadievich said, expressing hope that the university's cooperation with partners will be long-term, fruitful and will develop in a series of serious breakthrough projects.

The goal that Novocherkassk Polytechnics have set for themselves is to create a development center in the field of new mobile energy sources at the YURSPU (NPI). In the reports made at the meeting, representatives of our university sought to show what scientific background they have, with which partner enterprises and in which areas they interact.

Starting her report, Professor N.V. Smirnova noted the advantages of hydrogen energy: storing energy in the form of hydrogen allows you to have maximum coverage in terms of volume and power. The essence of hydrogen energy is that we get hydrogen in any available way from excess energy, store it in the form of hydrogen and spend it as we need. And the use of fuel cells allows you to get energy from hydrogen directly, this direction is promising and is actively developing.

Nina Vladimirovna told about what a group of scientists under her supervision is doing in the framework of the NTI "First Element" competition. NTI Technology Competition "The first element. Air" is dedicated to the creation of hydrogen fuel cell power plants for quadrocopters. The competitive task is as follows: it is necessary to create a working power plant based on hydrogen fuel cells with a capacity of 1.3 kW and a specific mass energy consumption of at least 700 Wh / kg, capable of being placed on a multicopter platform provided by the organizers of the competition and stay in the air the longest, but not less than three hours. Our chemists have been working on catalysts for fuel cells for many years, they have good practices in this regard, which allowed the Polytech team (a consortium of YURGPU (NPI), Skoltech and InEnergy) to be in the top three finalists of the competition.

Director of the Research Institute of Electromechanics of YURSPU (NPI) A.V. Pavlenko shared the ideas of our scientists regarding the creation of a "hydrogen locomotive" - an electric locomotive powered by fuel cells with unique drives, which are being developed by a team of scientists of the Research Institute of Electromechanics, together with several other groups of scientists.

Associate Professor of the Department of Chemical Technologies, Senior researcher at the Research Institute of Nanotechnology and New Materials R.M. Yakovenko made a presentation of the project "Fuel processor with a capacity of 5 nmZ/hour of hydrogen-containing gas for an electrochemical generator".

The report of the head of the Department of Chemical Technologies, Professor M.S. Lipkin, concerned electrochemical methods of diagnostics of fuel cells.

A.M. Kashin, General Director of InEnergy LLC, outlined the current directions of development of mobile energy sources in his report.

V.V. Gorchakov, General Director of NPP "INTOR" LLC, spoke about the technology and technologies for the production of ultrathin bipolar plates for fuel cells.

Professor V.E. Guterman told about the experience of SFU scientists in the development of catalysts for solid polymer fuel cells.

The meeting of the Regional Technical Council on the direction of end-to-end technology of NTI "New and portable energy sources" showed that Novocherkassk polytechnics have a solid scientific foundation in areas related to promising technologies. Serious cooperation with partner companies will certainly allow our scientists to become developers of new and possibly breakthrough projects.