Director Volodymyr Yu. Rozov, Dr. Eng.

Set up on March 31, 1970 by academician A. G. Iosifyan, director of the All-Union Research Institute of Electromechanics, as the Kharkiv Division of that institute, to develop in the USSR shipboard electrical equipment with a low level of external magnetic field. In 1992 the institution was transferred to the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and became the Division of Magnetism within NAS Institute of Electrodynamics; in 2005 it was reorganized into the NAS R&D Center of Magnetism of Technical Objects.

The research done at the Center covers a wide range of subjects of theoretical electrical engineering in magnetism-of-engineering-equipment area and aims at studying magnetic properties of engineering facilities and phenomena related to the interaction of such facilities and external environment via magnetic field. In particular, it involves modeling of magnetic fields of engineering equipment, controlling those fields, evaluating physical parameters of objects by their magnetic fields, determining the magnetic interaction of engineering facilities and external environment. Experimental studies have been facilitated by the unique magneto-dynamic complex of the Center, which has the National Asset status.

Theoretical fundamentals for the spatial harmonic analysis of external magnetic fields of engineering facilities developed at the Center, allow a significant improvement in the accuracy of modeling 3D magnetic fields and the quality of technologies for determining their magnetic parameters. The Center has also developed the theory of automatic control of the magnetic fields of engineering facilities in closed and open structures. This permits a substantial improvement in the magnetic protection of self-contained objects, the accuracy of magnetic control systems of orbital space vehicles, the efficiency of compensating human-induced magnetic fields. Scientists of the Center have suggested a novel method of two-pulse static local demagnetization and elaborated scientific principles of an industrial technology to demagnetize pipe ends before welding. It significantly improves the quality of arc welding due to eliminating the �magnetic blowing� phenomenon.

Current practical developments of the Center involve a new industrial technology of high-precision determination of Ukrainian spacecraft magnetic parameters with Center�s magneto-dynamic complex. It has ensured effective operation of the magnetic control system of �Egiptsat-1� spacecraft, functioning in the low earth orbit since April 2007. The Center has also developed and implemented an industrial technology for demagnetization of large-diameter pipes, which provides high-quality arc welding during repair operations. It has been used in the main pipelines of Ukraine, Russia and Kazakhstan. 18 demagnetizing devices were commercialized in 2000-2007.