KNRTU / DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING FOR CHEMICAL INDUSTRY

DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING FOR CHEMICAL INDUSTRY

Department Chair: Sergey I. Ponikarov

Phone: +7 (843) 231-41-54

E-mail: PonikarovSI@corp.knrtu.ru

Address: Building "A" – 68 Karl Marx str., Kazan

The department was established in September, 1949. At that time it was headed by Associate Professor Alexey M. Nikolaev. The Department trained engineers for working in design organizations and plants produced machinery for chemical industry.

The department has the name as the Department of Mechanical Engineering for Сhemical Industry since 1958. Specialists were trained in two courses: «Mechanical Engineering for Chemical Industry» and «Oil and Gas Refinery Equipment».

Full Professor Ivan I. Ponikarov was a Department Chair from 1973 to 1998.

The Faculty of the department wrote standard programs for several disciplines to apply them at high education institutions over the USSR. Among them:
- “Mechanical Engineering for Chemical Industry” (authors I.I. Ponikarov, V.P. Maikov, V.N. Sokolov, and O.S. Chekhov);
- “Design of Devices for Chemical Industry” (authors I.I. Ponikarov, B.M. Azizov, M.F. Mikhalev, and N.P. Tretyakov).

In 1998, laboratory was equipped to carry out classes on the discipline “Repair and Installation of Equipment”. In 2003 laboratory was modernized: a new laboratory setup «Installation of column using two mobile boom-type cranes» was constructed.

Leading scientists and academicians graduated from the department. Among them: S.G. Diakonov (rector of the University from 1989 to 2007), I.I. Ponikarov, V.P. Shnepp, G.S. Diakonov (rector of KNRTU since 2007), and F.M. Gimranov.

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

Academics

The department runs Engineer Degree Programs:
- “Mechanical Engineering for Chemical Industry”,
- “Oil and Gas Refinery Equipment”.

Full-time and part-time programs are available. The knowledge and skills gained through the department prepare students for careers in a broad range of chemical, petrochemical, petroleum refining, microbiological industries and the production of constructional materials.

The department runs the following programs for Bachelor Degree Students:
- “Engineering Machinery and Equipment” (academic programs: “Engineering Equipment for Chemical and Petrochemical Industry” and “Oil and Gas Refinery Equipment”);
- “Energy Efficient and Resource–Saving Processes in Chemical Technology, Petrochemistry and Biotechnology” (academic program “Mechanical Engineering for Chemical Industry”).

Both courses are also available for Master Degree students.

About 160 mechanical engineers, 15 Bachelors and 10 Masters graduate every year on the department.
The Faculty gives the courses of 27 disciplines including the following:
- Design and Calculation of Equipment Pieces;
- Installation and Repair of Equipment;
- Computer-Aided Design;
- Processes and Equipment of Oil and Gas Technologies;
- Fluid Mechanics;
- Reliability of Technological Equipment;
- Mathematical Modeling of Chemical Technology Processes;
- Expertise and Certification of Technological Equipment and, etc.

Research

Research at the department focuses on the following areas:
I. Theoretical principles of design and calculation of high technology mass transfer devices (The research is supervised by Full Professors I.I. Ponikarov, E.Sh. Telyakov, and N.S.Grishin):
1. Theoretical principles of design of gas and dust cleaning devices, their development and implementation;
2. Mass transfer kinetics for “gas(vapor)-liquid” systems in multicomponent mixtures, enhancement of industrial separating processes;
3. Centrifugal Extraction.
II. Theoretical principles of analysis and strength prediction for technological equipment and pipelines (The research is supervised by Full Professors S.I. Ponikarov and V.A. Bulkin):
1. Impact of materials structure changes onto the strength characteristics of technological equipment after long-term exploitation;
2. Modeling of state and strength calculation of tanks, devices and equipment.
III. Industrial safety analysis of chemical and petrochemical facilities (The research is supervised by Full Professors E.Sh. Telyakov and S.I. Ponikarov):
1. Theoretical principles of modeling of toxic vapor release near the ground and its influence on the humans.

AUTHOR: KNRTU