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RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
As a professor at a technical university, I continue research in my permanent areas of applied chemistry, chemical processing and chemical engineering. It has resulted in 4 monographs and about 250 papers. My developments have been implemented in chemical industry, metallurgy, engineering, food processing and pharmaceutical industry. I also give lectures and have supervised work on 20 successful Ph.D. theses. Systems approach has been my major tool that I am perfecting for purposes of technical designing, upgrading chemical processes, development of environmental equipment, separation reactors, block-and-module topologies for adaptable apparatuses, gas-liquid reactors with multiple phase inversion, and liquid-solid chemical and biological reactors. More recently, strategy and tactics for cleaner production, and theory and practice of sustainable development have become my areas of interest. Environmentally conscious processes were developed for fluid purification, aerosol application in painting, agriculture and pollution abatement, and removal of submicron particles from liquids. My research has resulted in more than 270 inventions for a variety of processes and products many of which were commercialized in the former USSR. Several of my developments were protected by patents of France, Germany and Japan. Through the application of systems approach to chemical engineering, some important ways to cleaner production and pollution prevention were found. These include: (i) minimizing treatment time and excess of one reagent over the other; (ii) combining synthesis with separation via heterogenization; (iii) adaptive processes and apparatuses. These approaches have been embodied in numerous environment-friendly designs, like robust mass-transfer units, columns with self-sustained-oscillation contact plates, acoustic devices facilitating mass transfer, multiple phase inversion apparatuses, diffusion phoresis equipment, conductive-membrane filters, compact modular units combining microfiltration, sorption and capillary phenomena for deep cleaning of fluids, self-sustained-oscillation ozonizers for sewage water, bioreactors, and electro-aerosol units for painting, pesticide spraying and gas purification.
You can see some my Commercialized Environmentally Friendly Technologies: **Impregnation of electrodes and other carbon/graphite articles, **Solid-liquid extraction for pharmaceutics, food processing and pulp industry, **Impregnation of textile fibers, and fiber reinforcements of resin-matrix composites, **Recycling polymers and cellulose wastes to make molded products,**Leaching and extraction for winning of metals,
**Infiltration of carbon/graphite compacts in making metal-carbon composites,
**Impregnation in making electrodes for nickel-cadmium cells,
**Impregnation of wood and paper,
**State-of-the-Art approaches to aerobic fermentation engineering,
**Development of parallel reaction-separation processes for chemical engineering applications,
**Technology for deep purification of liquids (including submicrometer particles,
**Complex natural and wastewater treatment of chemical, bacteriological pollutants, radioisotopes (including iodine isotopes),
**Acoustic contact devices for mass-transfer apparatuses,
**Concept of survival of the population under conditions of critical technological loads,
**Improving water quality through low-cost upgrading of a water treatment facility and abandonment of chlorination.
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