Valeriy V. Usin
Born November 11, 1952.
Professor, Doctor habil. (Engineering). Honored Scientist of Russian Federation. Chief Researcher at the N.N. Semenov Federal Research Center for Chemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences. Moscow, Russia.
Highly qualified expert in the field of technologies for environmental rehabilitation, addressing environmental challenges and ensuring chemical safety of industrial facilities and territories.
Scope of research interests:
- system analysis of energy carrier related processes and properties, methodology and technology of ensuring chemical and environmental safety of operating stationary and mobile industrial facilities bearing explosion, fire and chemical hazards;
- studying engine operational workflows and elaborating approaches for increasing their efficiency; forecasting fire and explosion hazard emergencies at chemically hazardous facilities;
- designing procedures, technologies and tools (means) for separation of multicomponent aqueous mixtures; creating novel analytical procedures and monitoring systems, development and modification of methods for treating and eliminating impact of pollution on man-made and natural environmental objects.
Key research results:
- ca. 10 technologies and technical complexes for purification and neutralization of toxic contaminants in drinking and wastewater have been created, certified and implemented by several enterprises in Russia;
- technical facilities for detecting and evaluating fire hazardous and toxic substances in water, soil and air have been designed, validated and commercialized;
- patterns of ignition of multicomponent combustible mixtures have been established and taken as a basis for predicting explosive and fire hazard emergencies at chemically hazardous facilities involving combustible substances;
- structure-activity relationships and models for managing processes involving energy resources, mathematical dependences of workflow velocity changes have been elaborated;
- approaches, methods, technologies, materials and means for fuel preparation have been developed focused at ensuring reliability of power units for automotive and aircraft equipment;
- a concept for research and safety assessment of operation of equipment and stationary facilities has been proposed;
- principles for chemical safety system have been worked out, including a set of indicators and criteria for assessing hazardous effects of oil products on the environment in conventional and emergency situations;
- in general, novel highly effective technologies, methods, materials, devices, compositions, technical complexes, special equipment have been developed that made it possible to ensure high-performance chemical, environmental, and fire and explosion safety control for exploitation of stationary and mobile industrial facilities.
Member of Academy of Military Sciences of the Russian Federation. Member of Academy of Quality Problems.
Author of over than 250 research publications, including 3 monographs, more than 10 methodological and educational manuals, more than 10 collections of research and technical papers, more than 40 patents and certificates for utility models. Supervised more than 10 PhD theses.
Recent publications:
1. Kumpanenko, I.V., Roshchin, A.V., Usin, V.V., Raevskaya, E.G., Bloshenko, A.V., Sakharova, N.A.
Automatic systems for control of water purification with online monitoring of pollutants at key points of the flow diagram. (2012) Russian Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 6 (5), pp. 671-676.
2. Kumpanenko, I.V., Roshchin, A.V., Marchenko, D.Yu., Khalfin, T.M., Ostrovskaya, V.M., Bloshenko, A.V., Usin, V.V.
Multichannel pipette scanning colorimeter for analyzing the content of hazardous chemicals in water. (2012) Russian Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 6 (5), pp. 659-670. DOI: 10.1134/S1990793112050211
3. Rozen, A.E., Kamyshanskii, S.I., Vorob'ev, E.V., Usin, V.V., Raevskaya, E.G.
Physicochemical foundations and specificity of the practical application of supercritical water oxidation to the destruction of persistent organic pollutants. (2012) Russian Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 6 (6), pp. 744-749.
DOI: 10.1134/S1990793112050247
4. Usin, V.V., Kumpanenko, I.V., Ivanova, N.A., Kartasheva, N.S., Volovodov, A.I.
A method for preventing infiltration of oil and oil products into sandy soils. (2014) Russian Journal of General Chemistry, 84 (11), pp. 2340-2345. DOI: 10.1134/S1070363214110553
5. Kumpanenko, I.V., Roschin, A.V., Usin, V.V., Ivanova, N.A., Bloshenko, A.V., Goncharova, A.E., Sakharova, N.A.
Method of obtaining structured hydrocarbon gels for increasing the efficiency of oil spill recovery technologies.
(2014) Russian Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 8 (5), pp. 720-725. DOI: 10.1134/S1990793114050170
6. Usin, V.V., Kumpanenko, I.V., Kamrukov, A.S., Ivanova, N.A., Raevskaya, E.G., Panin, E.O., Goncharova, A.E.
Analytical control of the wastewater treatment process by a generalized on-line water quality index: Choice of analytical procedure and development of monitoring technology. (2014) Russian Journal of General Chemistry, 84 (11), pp. 2305-2314. DOI: 10.1134/S1070363214110504
7. Kumpanenko, I.V., Roshchin, A.V., Ivanova, N.A., Novikov, V.V., Skryl’nikov, A.M., Podvalny, A.M., Usin, V.V.
Dynamic adsorption of nitrogen dioxide on zeolites. (2017) Russian Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 11 (1), pp. 154-166. DOI: 10.1134/S1990793117010055
8. Roshchin, A.V., Grigor’ev, V.S., Strelets, A.V., Nikolaev, A.I., Raevskaya, E.G., Usin, V.V., Korneeva, T.N.
Supercritical hydrothermal degradation of hazardous organic wastes with a view to utilizing the potential energy of gaseous products. (2017) Russian Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 11 (4), pp. 555-560.
DOI: 10.1134/S1990793117040108