Paul A. Kozub Lecturer, Senior Researcher Department of Technology of Inorganic Substances, Catalysis and Ecology, KhSPU Ph.D.(ChE), Kharkiv State Polytechnic University, 1997 MS (ChE), Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute, 1993 MS (Env. Management), Univ. Claude Bernard, Lyon 1, 1999 Contact Info

My main interest is information treatment in chemistry and chemical technology. Since 1993 I investigated many industrial and laboratory processes, and for all of them a weak point was the transformation of obtained data into mathematical dependencies. The use of polynomial relations gives minimum theoretical information about process. On the contrary, strong theoretical models are usually unstable and complicated.

The fundamental principles of my method are establishment of causal relations between different parameters. It allows getting maximum information both about internal structure of the observed objects and about right mathematical form of dependencies.

The fist test task for this technique was the obtaining of theoretical regulations from industrial data (NH₃ oxidation process and HCN synthesis). But I never forget another theoretical problems such as thermodynamic and kinetic computations, prediction of reaction pathways, simulation of chemical processes and heterogeneous catalysis.

Selected works:

Information treatment in chemistry and chemical technology

Analysis of experimental data (laboratory and industrial)
Algorithm of creation of empirical and theoretical models

Chemistry processes (investigation & modeling)

Study of chemistry of NOx elimination process on Cu-Fe oxide catalyst (data treatment, modeling, reaction mechanism)
Investigation of Pt gauze surface of NH₃ oxidation process (composition and changes, modeling)
Kinetics of CaO and phosphoric acid interaction (data treatment, reaction mechanism)
Investigation of formaldehyde formation on Ag catalyst (modeling)

Technologies (investigation & modeling)

HCN production, synthesis unit (data treatment, modeling, optimization)
HNO₃ production, NH₃ oxidation process (data treatment, modeling, optimization)
Platinum metals recovery from the Pt catching masses (laboratory experiment, data treatment, technology design)

Kinetics, thermodynamics, general chemistry

Classic thermodynamic computations
Simulation of heterogeneous processes
Solubility in the 2-component systems

Optimization

Technological and cost optimization - criteria and their choice
Optimization of operated plant unit

Other

Periodic table dependencies
Weather prediction (precipitation in summer period)

• Kozub P.A., Gryn G.I, Gurenko L.P., Trusov N.V. Surface properties and activity of platinum catalyst, Abstr. of the 28^th international vacuum microbalance technique conference, June 23-25, 1999, Kyiv, Ukraine, p.77.
• Kozub P.A. Trusov N. Grin G. New about mechanism of Andrussow`s HCN synthesis / Books of abstr. of 6th International Meeting on Reaction Mechanisms, Canterbury, 1996, P.62
• Kozub P.A. Trusov N.V. Difference and mutual relation between theoretical and empirical models of chemical processes / Mat. of. 12th International Congress of Chemical and process Engineering "CHISA`96", Praha, 1996, Part 8, P.92
• Kozub P.A. Trusov N.V. The problem of choice of modeling method and estimation of its efficiency / Mat. of. 12th International Congress of Chemical and process Engineering "CHISA`96", Praha, 1996, Part 8, P.91
• Kozub P.A. Trusov N.V. The control and optimization of commercial process by means empirical model / Mat. of. 12th International Congress of Chemical and process Engineering

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