Head of the Center: Mitchenko Tetyana
Address: Building 4 and Building 21.
Tel/fax. +38044 204 97 73,
e-mail: sec[at]xtf.kpi.ua, office.xtf[at]kpi.ua
For training under the certificate program "Water and modern water technologies" at XTF of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute a training and research and testing centre of modern water technologies was established, sponsored by the NGO "Ecosoft" and the All-Ukrainian public organization of water treatment specialists "Waternet".
In September 2021, the Centre for Modern Water Technologies began its activities. The opening ceremony was attended by Vice-Rector for Research Valery Pasichnyk, Dean of XTF Olga Linyucheva, Head of the Centre Tetyana Mitchenko. On behalf of the sponsors, Andriy Mitchenko, General Director of Ecosoft NGO, and Yulia Berezhna, Technical Director of Waternet NGO, visited. Warm words and wishes were expressed by Anna Tsvetkova, a member of the Committee on Compliance with the UNECE-WHO Water and Health Protocol Europe. The opening of the Centre online was attended by Associate Professor of the Norwegian University of Natural Sciences, a graduate of the Department of Inorganic Substances Technology, Water Treatment and General Chemical Technology Zakhar Maletsky, who proposed to continue international cooperation between the Norwegian University of Natural Sciences and Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute in the framework of "Water Harmony" projects. Director of the State Polytechnic Museum Nataliia Pysarevska noted that the museum's cooperation with XTF, which was previously associated with the competition for schoolchildren "All-Ukrainian Youth Water Prize", goes to the next level of interaction with students and teachers of XTF.
The Centre for Modern Water Technologies includes:
- educational and research technological laboratory for laboratory and practical work in the framework of the certificate program and research work of masters and graduate students. The laboratory is located on the areas of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute department XTF in a specially equipped room, equipped with the necessary technological equipment and modern measuring instruments;
- testing laboratory of ion exchange and adsorption for laboratory work within the certification program. Laboratory (№117, 4th building) certified by Ukrmetrteststandart and equipped with special equipment for work in accordance with the field of certification. Currently, the laboratory conducts tests of sorption and membrane materials, cartridges for water purification and determines the quality of drinking and process water, as well as research with the participation of masters and graduate students;
- modern classroom №164 in the 4th building, where lectures and seminars for participants of the certificate program will take place.
The scientific and innovative activity of the Centre envisages cooperation with 15 scientific groups from different faculties of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute , participation in international projects and grants, co-organization of conferences and participation in exhibitions dedicated to water quality and water technologies; publication of a professional magazine of category B "Water and water treatment technologies. Scientific and Technical News ", which is in line with the requirements of the journals of the scientometric database Web of Science and Scopus.
Head of the centre - Doctor of Technical Sciences, prof. T.E. Mitchenko, deputy Head of educational and organizational work - Doctor of Technical Sciences, Assoc. I.V. Kosogin, deputy. Head of Research and Testing - candidate of chemical sciences S.L.Vasilyuk, deputy Head of Information and Journalistic Work - Doctor of Technical Sciences, Assoc. T.A. Dontsova.