Set up in 1972 on the basis of Engineering Thermophysics Institute.
The Institute carries out basic and applied research in the following key areas:
- optimization of processes in power equipment and improvements in its design;
- energy-efficient technologies and alternative power-engineering facilities;
- predicting the reliability, dynamic strength and service life of power equipment;
- simulation and computer technologies in power machine-building.
Powerful R&D potential has been formed within science schools in:
- fluid mechanics and profiling of blading in hydraulic machines (founder – Acad.of AS UkrSSR G. F. Proskura);
- mechanical engineering in power machine-building (founder – Acad. of AS UkrSSR A. P. Filippov);
- optimization of processes and design of turbomachines (founder – Acad. of AS UkrSSR L. O. Shubenko-Shubin);
- mathematical simulation of physical processes (founder – NAS Acad. V. L. Rvachev);
- alternative power engineering, hydrogen power engineering in particular (founder – NAS Acad. A. M. Pidhorny);
- thermal physics in simulation and identification of non-linear heat processes (founder – NAS Acad. Yu. M. Matsevity).
The Institute has 17 research departments with the staff of 352 specialists (187 research workers, including a NAS academician and 3 NAS corresponding members, 27 doctors and 77 candidates of science). The Institute also has a Design&Engineering Bureau and a pilot production facility. R&D Concern NAS IPMash was founded in 2000.
The Institute is a center of basic and applied research in power engineering and mechanical engineering. It solves integral problems of energy efficiency and environment safety at enterprises of fuel-and-energy industry, housing and communal services, develops advanced technologies for various areas of mechanical engineering.
The Institute has been an active participant in forming the Energy strategy of Ukraine out to 2030; the concept of the State program for ensuring technological safety in the key branches of the economy and the ‘Resource’ regional program. To facilitate integration of science and education, the Institute initiated the ‘Resource’ Academy Science-and-Education Complex (ASEC) for open-ended training of researchers, starting from school (academy lyceum) and through to post-graduate and doctorate courses. Beside the Institute, it involves NSC KhPhTI and 8 leading higher education institutions in Kharkiv.
The Institute maintains a program for training researchers through doctorate and post-graduate courses. There are two specialized academic boards for awarding doctor-of-science and candidate-of-science degrees.
The Institute publishes an international R&D journal.