Department Chair: Alexander V. Klinov

Address: Building "E" – 12 Sibirskiy Trakt str., Kazan
Phone: +7 (843) 231-40-46

Working hours:
Mon-Fri: from 8:00 to 17:00

History

The Department was established in 1933. The study about Processes and Machinery in Chemical Engineering originated simultaneously in Soviet Union, USA and Great Britain as the “Principles of Chemical Engineering”. Kazan scientific school of “Processes and Machinery in Chemical Engineering” started its developing in 1930s. Fast growing chemical, electric-power and other branches of industry demanded qualified professionals at that time. Associate Professor V.P. Vinogradov was the first Department chairman. In 1938, the Department became an independent subdivision of Kazan Chemical Technological University.

Famous scientists headed the Department: A.I. Lunyak, A.A. Sveshnikov, R.G. Frindlender, A.A. Trufanov, O.V. Maminov, S.G. Diakonov (rector of Kazan Chemical Technological University from 1989 to 2007), G.S. Diakonov (rector since 2007).

In 1973, the Department moved to a new building with new laboratories for practical and research work. In 2013, the laboratory “Heat- and Mass-Transfer Model Sets” was named after Professor O.V. Maminov, who made a great contribution to the laboratories construction.

The Department of Chemical Process Engineering and the Department of Hydraulics were joined into one department.

Academics

The Department offers training in the following specializations:

• Design of Technological Complexes of Chemical and Petrochemical Productions;
• Chemical Engineering for Innovative Entrepreneurship.

44 disciplines are taught, including:

1. Processes and Apparatuses of Chemical Technology;
2. Processes and Apparatuses of Food Production;
3. Processes and Apparatuses of Biotechnology;
4. Fluid and Gas Mechanics;
5. Hydraulics and Hydraulic Machines;
6. Modeling of Chemical-Technological Processes;
7. Transfer Phenomena;
8. Separation of Multicomponent Mixtures;
9. Methods of Computational Fluid Dynamics;
10. Modern Design Systems and others.

Research Activities

General Research Area:
Enhancing optimal equipment design methodology through coupled physical and mathematical modeling.

The main scientific activities:

• Implementing of the coupled physical and mathematical modeling method for description, design and reconstruction of industrial apparatuses under the guidance of Professor S.G. Dyakonov;
• Developing methods for calculating equilibrium properties of multicomponent liquid and gas mixtures and transfer coefficients on the basis of approaches of statistical physics and the theory of integral equations for partial distribution functions (Bogoliubov, Born, Green, Kirkwood, Yvon - BBGKY equations);
• Theoretical methods for describing mass transfer in two-phase multicomponent systems, optimal design and reconstruction of separation units in industrial chemistry;
• Developing mathematical description of interrelated heat and mass transfer processes complicated by chemical reactions;
• Mathematical modeling of synthetic rubber production processes;
• Designing mass-exchange apparatus for liquid-solid phase systems.

Laboratories

The Department is equipped with the following educational laboratories:

• Heat and Mass Exchange Processes;
• Distinct Rectification;
• Hydraulics;
• Heat and Mass Transfer Model Plants.