Mark Kletsel, Doctor of Engineering Sciences and Professor of the Department of Electrical Power Engineering of S. Toraighyrov PSU, received a grant under the Technology Commercialization program.

The main goal of the program is identification of commercially viable projects, their funding for technology licensing, establishment of start-up companies and selling the resulting high-tech products based on international best practices.

According to the organizers, some of the research results demonstrated during the competition have no analogues in the world.

According to the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan, 526 applications have been filed to the Center for Technology Commercialization LLP in 2014. The competition was held in the following categories: power engineering, advanced processing of raw materials and products, information and communications technology, and life sciences.

Mark Kletsel's project entitled “Commercialization of manufacturing structures for mounting current protection reed switch of busducts” will help save tens of tons of copper, hundreds of tons of high-quality steel and also hundreds of millions of tenge because reed switch will also perform a current relay function.

It should be noted that current protection devices can be sold not only in Kazakhstan but also in Russia, as well as in the US and Western countries. Current transformers are used all over the world, so the proposed devices can be sold in these countries which can increase the income much more than expected.

Ivan Shumeyko, Candidate of Engineering Sciences, Professor of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Standardization of S. Toraighyrov PSU, reached the final of the program. His project is devoted to creating a high-performance industrial prototype of a universal wind power plant, the parameters of which increase the torque efficiency and improve the rotation rate of the wind wheel and total output by 20-30% compared to existing analogues.