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The Institute of Chemical
Engineering (IChE) is
an academic specialized scientific organisation for chemical engineering
at the Bulgarian Academy of
Sciences (BAS) and a principal national research centre for chemical
engineering and bioengineering science.
The mission of IChE is to contribute
to the environmental sustainable development of the country with its
scientific methodology, scientific capacity and broad experience in the
scientific and applied research in the field of chemical technology and
industrial biotechnologies. This mission is in accordance with the
following world-wide recognized and accepted priorities:
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Development of
“green” and waste-free technologies for reduction of release of industrial waste, their management and exclusion of hazardous waste to minimize
their adverse impact on the environment.
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Development and improvement of processes, equipments and energy efficiency of running and new enterprises.
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Development of methods, facilities and technologies for replacement of non-renewable raw materials and fossil fuels by renewable ones,
based on biomass and other renewable natural resources.
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Training of qualified personnel in different area of competence.
The Institute has developed and
applied in industrial scale more than 20 new processes, equipment and
systems with environmental or energy saving effects: contact economisers
for utilisation of heat from flue gases of heat power stations;
technologies and apparatuses for removal of toxic contamination from gas
fluxes; new concepts for heterogeneous catalytic reactors; extraction
technologies for producing and recovery of valuable or toxic substances
from waste waters. Nine industrial scale equipments for ethanol
production and one for production of anhydrous ethanol are constructed
and applied.
The scientific staff of the Institute
is recognized at the international level for contributions in the
development of liquid membrane methods for simultaneous extraction and
concentration of valuable solutes or toxic substances from waste waters
and natural sources.
The studies in the field of
biotechnology concern the kinetics of various fermentation and enzyme
processes, practically applied for biological treatment of waste waters,
integrated processes for waste treatment combined with energy production
from renewable resources, and in the pharmaceutical industry.
New methods are developed for optimal
energy use in batch chemical and biochemical processes as well as for modelling
of multicomponent liquid-vapour equilibrium.
About 70 scientific papers are
published annually. More than 400 citations of the Institute's scientific
contributions are noticed annually.
Every three years the Institute organises
an International Summer School of Chemical Engineering, traditional
scientific event for more than 20 years.
An international workshop dedicated
to the "Transport Phenomena in Two-Phase Flow" with the partcipation
of outstanding foreign scientists is organised regularly as well.
Scientific staff – 32 persons: 3 professors, 9
associate professors, 4 have DSc degrees, 20 have PhD degrees.
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