Department of Sugar Technology and Water Preparation

Head of the Department
Karpovich Inna Vitalievna
Associate Professor, Ph.D.

(established in 1884)

Department of Sugar Technology and Water Preparation – the only department in the system of higher education of Ukraine, which trains specialists to work in the sugar and starch and molasses industries.

Over the years of its existence the department has trained more than 6,300 process engineers for the needs of the sugar and other industries. Graduates of the department – a whole pleiad of leading experts of the industry. As a graduate department it trains highly qualified specialists ("bachelors" and "masters") in the specialty 181 "Food Technologies", two educational programs: "Technologies of sugar and polysaccharides", and "Technologies of drinking water and water treatment of food production".

The department has postgraduate and doctoral studies to train highly qualified personnel in the specialty 05.18.05 "Technology of sugary substances and fermentation products".

The material and technical base of the department includes a training laboratory, a modern laboratory for water treatment, a reagent room, 2 research laboratories, a computer center.

The technological processes for obtaining sugar and sugary substances are the most difficult among food technologies, so the level of theoretical and practical training of the department' graduates allows them to re-qualify for work in food enterprises without additional complications, if it is necessary. In 2010, at the department of sugar technology and polysaccharides, a new specialty "Technology of drinking water and water treatment of food production" was opened. In 2011, the department was renamed into the department of "Sugar and water technology". Today, the department is an educational and scientific center on the preparation of drinking and process water for food products, development of new technologies and apparatus for the purification of complex aqueous dispersed systems, improvement of methods for analyzing and monitoring the quality of water systems. The new specialty is a logical development of the training of highly skilled specialists in the specialty of "Food technology and engineering".

Knowledge acquired by students will enable graduates of the department to work in the food industry, water treatment plants, laboratories for drinking water quality, research institutions (academic and institutional), design organizations and commercial structures associated with drinking water preparation.

Graduates of the specialty "Technologies of sugar and polysaccharides" can occupy not only senior positions in sugar and starch and molasses industries (chief engineer, chief technologist, shift supervisor, shop manager, production manager, food quality control engineer, etc.) but also work as scientific employees and lecturers at educational institutions.

The department cooperates with educational institutions (Compiegne Technological University (France), Lodz Polytechnic (Poland), University of Opole (Poland), Odesa State Academy of Food industries, Kharkiv State Academy of Technology and Management, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy etc. and academic and sectoral research institutes (Institute of Biocolloidal Chemistry, Institute of Technical Thermophysics, Institute for Sorption and Problems of Endoecology, Ukrainian Research Institute of Sugar Industry, Republican Unitary Enterprise "Scientific-Practical Center of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus for Food" and others.). The staff of the department maintains close relations with the State Department of Food of Ukraine, the National Association of Sugar Producers of Ukraine, food enterprises.

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The department prepares specialists:

Educational disciplines trained by the Department

The scientific activity of the department is focused on developing the new technologies of saccharides and water preparation, analyzing various sets of equipment to be used for these purposes, researching methods of intensification and optimization of technological processes. A considerable volume of scientific research is done on state budget and per orders of private enterprises working in the field. The department operates the scientifi and production center "Tsukrotehnologiya".

PRIORITIES IN SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES:

• making and implementation of research work;
• organization and participation in the work of scientific and applied scientific-conferences and seminars;
• participation in the organization and work of the scientific and technical conference of sugar producers of Ukraine;
• organizing and holding a conference on technologies of purification of drinking water and water treatment;
• Participation in the organization and holding a scientific conference of young scientists, postgraduates and students;
• preparation of scientific works and applications for inventions;
• Preparation for the publication of articles in international scientific journals in the specialized editions included in the list of VACs;
• preparation for the publication of abstracts at conferences and seminars;
• preparation of applications for obtaining a patent in Ukraine;
• directing the research work of students: and scientific student groups on technology of the field, electrotechnologies, technology of starch, technologies of water treatment.

MAIN SCOPE OF RESEARCH WORK OF THE CHAIR:

• improvement of the technology of purification of diffusion juice on the basis of the use of non-traditional reagents;
• development of an effective method for conducting the process of basic liming and equipment for its realization;
• development of a method for purification of diffusion juice using chemical reagents and flocculants;
• Improvement of the method of quenching scalded limestone and preparation of lime milk for purification of diffusion juice;
• development and improvement of the technologies of starch products;
• development and improvement of the technologies of pectin and pectin products;
• improvement of technological processes of crystallization of sucrose, development of effective instrumental methods for analysis of sugar production;
• research of chemical composition of water for technological processes of food production and quality of sewage;
• improvement of technologies for purification of drinking water and water treatment of food industries.