About the Department
January 10, 1974 by the Minister of Higher and Secondary Specialized Education of the USSR at the Chemical Engineering Department KPI was created Department of Cybernetics of Chemical Technology Processes (CCTP). The establishment of the Department was the result of hard work almost nine small group of enthusiasts led by Alla Grigorievna Bondar recruited force at the Department of Technology of inorganic substances and fertilizers, headed by Professor Alexander Serhijovich Plyhunov, the principal of the University.
Today the Department of Cybernetics of Chemical Technology Processes prepares specialists in the field “Automation and Computer Integrated Technologies” and all-elective courses, “Information Technologies,” “Computational Mathematics and Programming”, “Computer Graphics” bachelor cycle training and “Mathematical optimization techniques”, “Mathematical modeling of processes and systems”, “Basic scientific research”, “Mathematical modeling and computer applications in chemical technology” for the university master’s training. From 2013 began teaching a new course (lectures and laboratory practice) “Automated process control systems in chemical plants” for professionals of СTF.
Over the past year at the Department of Cybernetics CTF has been created three new joint research and teaching laboratories:
- Joint Ukrainian-Norwegian computer class distance learning for 8 computers; class was named after Prof. H. O. Statyukhy;
- Training and Application Center strategizing control chemical processes – common laboratory microprocessor technology department of cybernetics of CTF and the company Honeywell Ukraine, which is used in the classroom for all students of CTF and research work of the department;
- Joint training and research laboratory monitoring environmental sustainability of dual subordination – World Data Center for Geoinformatics and Sustainable Development “KPI” and the Department of CCTP.
Today, the department has 20 professors (1 professor, 13 associate professors, 3 senior lecturers, 3 assistants).
Many years of successful activity of the department laid the foundation of a unique scientific school “Mathematical and computer modeling of chemical and technological processes and systems” whose achievement is the establishment of a systematic approach methodology of constructing mathematical models of technological systems of different nature, different scales and for different purposes.
Sphere of modern scientific interests of the department associated with the use of modeling techniques and optimization technologies in the chemical and allied industries in different areas:
- Experimental and statistical modeling;
- Control of operating systems;
- Improving product quality;
- Synthesis of optimal schemes of water consumption and industrial water purification;
- Technogenic risks assessment;
- Synthesis of complex technological systems;
- Mathematical modeling of the properties of polymers and polymer systems;
- Sustainable Development of Society.
The department organizes the International Scientific Conference “Computer modeling in chemistry, technology, and systems for sustainable development“, which is attended by scientists from Ukraine, Germany, Poland, Hungary, USA, Norway.
The department released more than 800 professionals, successfully working at different technological profiles, academic institutions, and data centers, commercial and banking structures not only in Ukraine but also in many countries.