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Director:
Prof. Venko BESCHKOV,
D.Sc.
Phone: (+359 2) 870 20 88
E-mail: bioreac@bas.bg
Scientific Secretary:
Assoc. Prof. Dragomir
Yankov, Ph.D.
Phone: (+359 2) 870 32 73
E-mail: iihts@bas.bg
Chairman of Scientific
Council:
Assoc. Prof. George ANGELOV,
Ph.D.
Phone: (+359 2) 870 41 18,
979 32 86
E-mail: gang@bas.bg
Contact person for
international cooperation:
E. VASSILEVA
Phone: (+359 2) 870 20
88
E-mail: ichemeng@bas.bg
Chief Accountant:
Rosa KOSTOVA
Phone: (+359 2) 870 54
59;
(+359 2) 979 30 98
Office:
Kinka PHILIPOVA
Phone: (+359
2) 870-42-49;
(+359 2) 979 32 76
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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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HISTORY: In 1961, in the framework of the Institute of
General and Inorganic Chemistry at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, a
Department for Mass Transfer Processes was created. It represented the
first Bulgarian specialised laboratory for chemical engineering research.
Twelve years later, in 1973, this Department was transformed into an
independent research unit of the BAS, acquiring the name Central Laboratory
of Chemical Engineering. By 1986 the latter numbered a staff of 66
employees and it was considered appropriate to convert it into Institute of
Chemical Engineering. From its foundation and up to 1989 the institute was
headed by Prof. D.Elenkov, D.Sc., Corresponding member of BAS, and that
from 1989 till 1992 by Prof.L.Boyadzhiev, D.Sc. The first specialised
laboratories of the Institute were headed by Prof. D.Elenkov, D.Sc.,
Corresponding member of BAS, Prof. L.Boyadzhiev, D.Sc., Prof.
Chr.Boyadjiev, D.Sc., Prof. N.Kolev, D.Sc
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In 2000 the Institute
of Chemical Engineering incorporates 6 research laboratories with a
scientific staff of 37 employees, including one Corresponding member of the
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 5 professors, 12 associated professors, 22
persons are bearers of Ph.D. degrees and 6 - of D.Sc.
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HEADS:
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SCIENTIFIC SUBJECTS OF THE
RESEARCH LABORATORIES
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Prof. George
ANGELOV, D.Sc.,
Phone : (359) (2) 8704118 ;
979 3286
E-mail : gang@bas.bg
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Transfer Processes in
Liquid Media
Extraction of metals and
organic compounds in liquid-liquid and liquid-solid systems, separation of
oil-in water emulsions, recovery of valuable substances from waste waters.
Gas absorption using packed and plate columns; separation by distillation;
heat utilisation by direct or indirect heat transfer; mutual heat and mass transfer.
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Assoc. Prof. Dragomir
YANKOV, Ph. D.
Phone: (359) (2) 8719121
(359) (2) 979 3232
E-mail: yanpe@bas.bg
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Chemical and Biochemical Reactors
Kinetics and transfer
processes in heterogeneous chemical reactors, transfer processes in two and
three-phase catalytic reactors. Kinetics and transfer processes in
bioreactors with free and immobilised biocatalysts. Waste water treatment
by biological methods. Bioprocesses for renewable resources for raw
materials and energy.
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Assoc. Prof. Boyan.
IVANOV, Ph.D
Phone: (+359 2) 870 41 54;
(+359 2) 979 32 75
E-mail: bivanov@bas.bg
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Laboratory "System Engineering"
Analysis and synthesis of
chemical technological systems aiming their optimal design and control;
chemical engineering thermodynamics; non-linear heat- and mass-transfer.
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INTERNATIONAL
COLLABORATION:
The
Institute maintains intensive relations with scientists from France, Germany, USA, the U.K., Belgium, The
Netherlands, Portugal, Russia, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Czech Republic, India, Israel, etc. A large
number of joint research projects have been carried out, the results published
in specialised journals and books. Since 1993 the Institute is a member of
the European Federation of Chemical Engineering.
Several projects were financed by the
European Commission in the frames of the programmme COST: the information
networks PERTREX - Liquid Membranes and BIOPATH - Bioproducts from
agricultural raw materials: studies and technological developments of
conversion of chemicellulose. A project was approved and financed by the
programme COPERNICUS: "Calculation and choice of gas-liquid reactors
for fluids with reological complex characteristics". Other projects are financed by the 5th
Framework Programme of EC - BIOSAP (Biotreatment of sequentially
alternating pollutants in wastewaters) and the 7th FP – WasteKit
(on management of municipal solid waste).
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TRAINING OF SPECIALISTS:
Scientists from the Institute
participate in European educational programme TEMPUS: CEEBUNET (1992) and
"Economy of Energy using Process Integration" (1995/98) and the
FP5 project BIOSAP (2002/06).
The staff of the Institute participates in
the training of students attending the chemical and biochemical engineering
courses at Universities and Higher schools in Bulgaria (Sofia University
"St. Kliment Ohridski", Chemico-Technological and Metallurgical University,
The Prof. As. Zlatariv University in Burgas, Technical
University in Sofia, the South-Weste University in
Blagoevgrad, Higher School in Razgrad, etc.) and abroad (Japan, France, Germany).
Много
дипломни
работи и
дисертации
на студенти
и докторанти
са
изработени
под
ръководството
на учени от
ИИХ. Само за периода 2004/2010 са защитени 23 дисертации. Scientific degrees (BSc, MSc.and PhD) were
conferred regularly on many graduate and post-graduate students of the
institute.
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Every three
years the Institute organises in cooperation with the Bulgarian Society of
Chemical Engineering the International Summer School of Chemical
Engineering, traditional scientific event for more than 20 years. The last
one was on May 2004.
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Last Summer School:
Application
Form Second Circular
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Review of Summer Schools
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