Hartmut Herpel

After graduating from the ATEP department, he worked at the Geräteund Regler Werke plant near Berlin. There I was engaged in the development of a new generation of automated process control systems based on microprocessor technology. At the same time, we implemented such systems at various stations in the GDR, Russia, Bulgaria and Greece. Since 1990, he worked for Siemens AG in the energy department as director of sales for Siemens AG, was responsible for the CIS regions. Together with colleagues from Russia and Ukraine, we have implemented modern Siemens SPPA-T3000 systems at such large power plants as Berezovskaya GRES, Permskaya GRES, Severozapadnaya CHPP, as well as at all modern CCGT units in Ukraine, China, Iran, Iraq, etc.

I recently retired.

Education at the “Thermal Power Engineering Faculty of the Kiev Polytechnic Institute”, and even more so at the Department of ATEP, was the basis of my professional life. In all my workplaces, I was able to use the acquired knowledge. This applies both to work in the research department and in the sales area – in discussions with the customer’s specialists.

I especially want to emphasize the depth of the transferred knowledge in the areas of thermal power plant technology. I still remember lectures on steam and gas turbines, steam generators, thermodynamics and the theory of automatic control.

To today’s applicants and subsequent graduates of the ATEP department, I, first of all, wish success, accumulate knowledge as much as possible, a good start in professional life, and also feel student life as a gift!