Biography

Education and degrees: 1. Education (1954 to 1960) - Higher Institute of Chemical Technology (Sofia, Bulgaria); 2. PhD (1968) USSR, Moscow Institute of Chemical Mechanical Engineering; 3. Doctor of Technical Sciences (1978), Higher Institute of Chemical Technology (Sofia, Bulgaria). Specializations: 1963, USSR, Moscow, Supervisor-Prof. V.G. Levich, 4 months; 1968, USSR, Novosibirsk, Supervisor-Prof. M.G. Slinko, 4 months. Awards: Bulgarian Order of Cyril and Methodius (first class); Russian Federation Order of Mihailo Lomonosow (National Committee for Public Prizes). International activity: Editor-in-Chief of the Transactions of Academician (Scientific journal of the Russian Academy of Science); Chairman of the Scientific Council of the International Scientific Center for Power and Chemical Engineering Problems

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Research Interest

1. Diffusion type of models and scale-up. 2. New approach for modeling and simulation of column apparatuses. 3. Gas purification from SO2. Previous: 1. Absorption in Venturi type scrubbers; 2. Hydrodynamics and heat-mass transfer in boundary layers in gas-liquid film flow, gas-liquid, liquid-liquid and gas (liquid) - solid systems; 3. Process systems engineering; 4. Optimal synthesis of chemical process systems; 5. Optimization of multipurpose chemical process systems; 6. Chemical engineering thermodynamics. 7. Non-linear mass transfer in systems with intensive interphase mass transfer; 8. Mass transfer with chemical reaction; 9. Non-linear mass transfer and hydrodynamic stability; 10. Model parameter identification and incorrect (ill-posed) inverse problems solutions.