Department Chair: Rushan G. Safin

Phone: +7 (843) 231-41-57

E-mail: safin@kstu.ru;
SafinRG@corp.knrtu.ru

Address: Building "C" – 72 Karl Marx str., Kazan

The Department of Wood Processing was established at 25th December 1995.

The Department chair is Rushan G. Safin, Full Professor, Doctor of Science in Engineering, and winner of awards, namely, Honored Inventor of the Russian Federation and of the Republic of Tatarstan.

The developed wood processing industry of the Republic of Tatarstan requires well-trained specialists.

At the department students are trained in wood structure and properties, modern technologies and technique for mechanical and chemical processing for wood products. Modern computing technologies are extensively used during the course.

Research areas:

- Drying of wood materials (supervised by Full Professor Rushan Safin);
- Thermal methods of wood waste utilization (supervised by Full Professor Nail Timerbaev);
- Recovery of high value and toxic volatile components during milling with condensation and adsorption methods (supervised by Doctor of Engineering Dilara Ziatdinova);
- Wood pyrolysis and gas generation (supervised by postdoctoral students Almaz Sadrtdinov and Denis Tyntcev);
- Substance extraction from bark and leaves (supervised by Full Professor Rushan Safin);
- Technology of wood waste conversation into synthetic gas and other products: methanol, dimethyl ether, motor fuel leaves (supervised by of Full Professor Nail Timerbaev);
- Technology and equipment for profiled woodware production (supervised by postdoctoral student Fomin A.).

The department Faculty includes 4 Doctors of Engineering, Full Professors and 14 PhDs, Associate Professors.

Academics

The Department trains engineers in
- “Wood Processing Technology” ( “Wood Products Design”);
- “Machines and Equipment for Forest Industry” (“Machines and Mechanisms of Wood Processing Industry”).

The department runs the following Bachelor Degree programs in cooperation with the Department of Architecture and Design of Wood Products:
- “Timber Harvesting and Processing Technology”;
- “Technological Machines and Equipment”.

Master Degree programs are also available:
- “Technology of Wood Harvesting, Thermal Processing, Drying, and Preservation”;
- “Energy Efficiency Technology of Forest Resources Processing Produced Non-Conventional Materials”;
- “Technological Machines and Equipment of Timber Complex”;
- “Chemical Technology of Wood Processing Produced Organic Compounds and Fuel”.

The department gives numerous courses including:
- Hydrothermal Processing and Preservation of Wood Materials;
- Wood Science. Wood Merchandising;
- Foundations of Wood-Base Material Processing;
- Foundations of Construction;
- Design of Woodworking Machinery;
- Processes and Equipment of Woodworking Industry.