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  |  | Prof. Stanislav V. PetrovThe Gas Institute of NAS of UkraineRPE TOPAS Ltd
 Kiev, Ukraine
 
 Tel: (38 044) 402 3735
 Fax: (38 044) 402 3735
 plasma@topas.relc.com
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							Born 1947; 1969-1975 - the student of the Kiev Polytechnic Institute; the Gas Institute of NAS of Ukraine: 1975 - engineer, 1977 - scientific employee, 1982 - senior scientist, 1985 - conducting senior scientist, 1993 - the chief of RPE TOPAS Ltd - up till now. 1982 - Ph.D. degree in Technology and Machines of Welding Production, Thesis: "Researches and development of installations of increased capacity for spraying of coatings in combustion products plasma ", 1996 - Doctor of Technical Sciences degree in Technology and Machines for Welding and Related Process, Thesis: "Hardware - technological bases of thermal spraying of coatings and materials processing in gas - air plasma"  | 
				
					| Scientific Activities:
							Main fields of research: Theory of processes in plasma and their applications for spraying, materials processing and plasma chemistry. 
							
        Current research interests: New engineering, 
          high technologies and plasma equipment.  
        Publications: 2 monograph, 60 publications in referred journals and collections, 45 communications to scientific conferences and 22 patents. 
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					| Selected Publications:
							Petrov S.V., Karp I.N. PLASMA GAS AIR SPRAYING, Kiev. Naukova dumka, (1993), 495 p. 
							Petrov S.V., Saakov A.G. COMBUSTION PRODUCTS PLASMA in SURFACE ENGINEERING, (2000), 265 p. 
							Petrov.S.V. Technological usage of combustion products plasma and its generation. Ecotechnologies and resource saving (1999) No 3, p.73-80. 
							Petrov S.V. Plasma synthesis in technology of thermal spraying Powder metallurgy (1997) No.9, p.34-38. 
							Petrov S.V., Saakov A.G. Plasma hardening. Metal market. (1999) No.6, p.62-65. 
							Petrov S.V., Saakov A.G. A new approach to restoring of worn-out locomotive crankshafts. Railway Transport of Ukraine (1999) No.5. p.25-28. 
							Kolesnik V.V., Orlik V.N., Petrov S.V., Saakov A.G. Mathematical model of plasma heating for quenching. Metallovedenie i termicheskaya obrabotka metallov (1999) No.5, p. 29-32. 
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