Power Conversion Equipment in Ukraine: Experience and Prospects

The stages of the formation of scientific research in the field of converting equipment in Ukraine were investigated. It turned out that the initial research was started by Academician V. M. Khrushchev at the Kharkov Electrotechnical Institute in the early 1930s. The creation of the Institute of Energy (later – Institute of Electrical Engineering, Institute of Electrodynamics) within the system of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine gave impetus to the development of research in this area, both in academic institutes and in polytechnic ones. An in-depth study of reports on the scientific research work of the Institute of Electrodynamics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine made it possible to reveal that the research teams of the Institute made a significant contribution to the development of theoretical research and the creation of highly efficient electromagnetic and semiconductor converters for various purposes. O. M. Miliakh, together with his students, created new areas of research: a unique Kyiv school of transistor converting equipment under the leadership of Yu. I. Drabovich; research of thyristor converters for power supply systems (V. Yu. Tonkal); development of the theory, methods and technical methods of the parameters of electricity stabilizing and electromagnetic compatibility in electrical systems and networks (A. K. Shidlovsky). In addition, great contribution for the formation of the direction of converting technology in Ukraine made the fundamental developments of Academician I. M. Chizhenko and the achievements of the scientific school of converting equipment of the National Technical University "Kharkov Polytechnic Institute" (O. O. Mayevsky, V. T. Dolbnya, E. I. Sokol).