Department Chair: Sergey I. Ponikarov

Address: Building "A" – 68 Karl Marx Str., Kazan
Phone: +7 (843) 231-43-63 А-127а, А-127б
+7(843)231-42-91 А-123, А-133
+7(843)231-41-54 А-126
+7(843)231-42-41 А-131

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

History

The Department was established in 1949. At that time, it was headed by Associate Professor Alexey M. Nikolaev. The Department trained engineers for design and construction organizations and chemical plants.

Professor Ivan I. Ponikarov was a Department Chair from 1973 to 1998. The Department Faculty developed model course syllabi for Higher Education Institutions of the USSR. Among them:

• “Machines and Apparatuses for Chemical Industry” (authors I.I. Ponikarov, V.P. Maikov, V.N. Sokolov, and O.S. Chekhov);
• “Calculation and Design of Chemical Machines and Apparatuses” (authors I.I. Ponikarov, B.M. Azizov, M.F. Mikhalev, and N.P. Tretyakov).

Leading scientists and academicians graduated from the Department. Among them: S.G. Diakonov, I.I. Ponikarov, V.P. Shnepp, G.S. Diakonov, and F.M. Gimranov.

Since 1998, the Department has been chaired by Sergey I. Ponikarov, Full Professor, Doctor of Engineering.

Academics

The Department offers the following programs:

• “Mechanical Engineering for Chemical Industry”;
• “Oil and Gas Refinery Equipment”.

Knowledge and skills gained at the department prepare students for building careers in a broad range of chemical, petrochemical, petroleum refining, microbiological and in construction materials sectors.

Disciplines at the Department:

• Methods of Physical and Mathematical Modeling;
• Design and Calculation of Equipment Components;
• Machines and Apparatuses of Chemical Industries;
• Fundamentals of Scientific Research;
• Equipment Installation and Repair;
• CAD;
• Computing Machines Application in Engineering Calculations;
• Intensification of Heat and Mass Exchange Processes;
• Processes and Units of Oil and Gas Technologies;
• Reliability of Technological Equipment.

Research Activities

Areas of research:

I. Theoretical principles in developing high-intensity mass-exchange equipment and methods of their calculation (Research Supervisors: Professor I.I. Ponikarov, Professor E.Sh. Telyakov).
Topics within the study:
1. Theoretical principles of development of high-intensity equipment for gas and dust purification, their design and implementation in industry;
2. Research of mass transfer kinetics in gas(vapor)-liquid systems in multicomponent mixtures. Enhancement of industrial separation processes.

II. Theoretical principles of analysis and strength calculation of technological equipment and pipelines (Research Supervisors: Professor S.I. Ponikarov and Professor V.A. Bulkin).
Topics within the study:
1. Research of the influence of the material structure change at long-term operation on the strength characteristics of the technological equipment;
2. State modeling and strength calculation of vessels, equipment and pipelines.

III. Analysis of industrial safety of chemical and petrochemical production facilities. (Research Supervisors: Professor I.I. Ponikarov and Professor S.I. Ponikarov)
Topic within the study: Theoretical basis for modeling the dispersion of hazardous chemical clouds in the near-surface layer and their effects on mankind.