Department of Ecology and Environmental Technologies

DEPARTMENT OF ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGIES

The Department of Ecology and Environmental Protection Technologies is the faculty’s primary structural unit.

The Department of Ecology and Environmental Protection Technologies was established on the basis of the Department of Occupational Safety, which has been in operation since 1972. As environmental courses were developed and refined, the department changed its name several times: “Occupational Safety” (1972–1988), “Occupational Safety and Environmental Protection” (1988–1990), “Ecology and Chemistry” (1991–1993), “Ecology” (1993–2011), “Environmental Safety” (2011–2013), “Environmental Safety and Occupational Safety” (2013–2017), “Ecology and Environmental Protection Technologies” (since 2017).

The first head of the Department of Occupational Safety was Associate ProfessorYuriy Serhiyovych Ryske, and the department’s staff included Associate Professor V.I. Koval, Assistant T.O. Golubchenko, Assistant A.Yu. Lisny, Senior Laboratory Assistant N.F. Lenkovets, and Laboratory Assistant A.V. Dolmatnya. During this period, the department’s material and technical infrastructure began to take shape, and the occupational safety laboratory was established.

From 1976 to 1987,Vladlen Mykolayovych Matvienko served as the head of the Department of Occupational Safety. During this time, the department’s material and technical resources expanded, and the “Collection of Laboratory and Practical Work on Occupational Safety” was developed and published several times, along with methodological guidelines for completing the “Occupational Safety” section in thesis projects.

In 1987, with the arrival of the new department chair—Valery Panteleevich Voloshin, Candidate of Technical Sciences and Associate Professor—preparations began for the launch of an environmental specialization and for the department to become a degree-granting unit. This, in turn, led to a change in the department’s name. In 1988, the department was renamed “Occupational Safety and Environmental Protection.” Starting in 1989, in collaboration with the Department of Marine Power Plants, the department’s faculty began graduating engineers with a specialization in “Environmental Protection Systems for Marine Power Plants” within the “Marine Power Plants” major. The department became a degree-granting unit, which provided a real opportunity to launch an environmental studies major.

From 1990 to 1994, the department was headed by Dr.Igor Mikhailovich Varshubsky, Doctor of Technical Sciences and Professor. Under his leadership, a new phase of the department’s development began. In 1993, the department launched the “Environmental Protection” program. To strengthen its material resources, the department was merged with the Department of Chemistry in 1991, after which it became known as the Department of Ecology and Chemistry. In mid-1993, due to the reorganization of the institute’s structural units, the department was again split into the Department of Ecology and the Department of Chemistry.

In April 1994, Dr.Sergey Sergeyevich Ryzhkov, Doctor of Technical Sciences and Professor, became the head of the Department of Ecology. During this period, the department underwent rapid development and played an active role in addressing scientific and practical issues in the shipbuilding industry. On the initiative of Professor S.S. Ryzhkov and Associate Professor Y.M. Kharitonov, and with the support of UDMTU Rector Professor G.F. Romanovsky, the International Scientific and Technical Conference “Problems of Energy Conservation and Ecology in Shipbuilding” was launched. The first such conference was held in September 1996.
The department’s primary research focus is the development of environmental and energy-saving technologies. Thus, S.S. Ryzhkov established a scientific school in environmental engineering and a new research direction focused on the purification and utilization of gaseous and liquid emissions by harnessing the energy potential of the emissions themselves, utilizing jet, two-phase dispersed, and detachment flows, as well as the forces of turbo- and thermophoresis, particle coagulation during flow around obstacles and in channels. Based on this research direction, a complete range of jet oil separators for gas turbine engines has been developed. The inventions, protected by patents and copyright certificates, have been widely implemented at enterprises in the CIS countries, India, and China.

For the scientific project “Development of Universal Transport Vessels and Ocean Engineering Equipment,” a research group led by Professor S.S. Ryzhkov (V.S. Blintsov, G.V., Zhukov Yu.D., Kvasnitsky V.F., Koshkin K.V., Krivtsun I.V., Nekrasov V.O., Sevryukov V.V., Solonichenko Yu.V.) was awarded the 2011 State Prize of Ukraine in Science and Technology.

Professor S.S. Ryzhkov made every effort to attract highly qualified researchers in the field of ecology to ensure high-quality training of specialists in the field of “Ecology and Environmental Protection.” He devoted significant attention to the material, technical, and methodological support of the educational process and the department’s research activities, to establishing ties with scientific organizations—including at the international level—and to enhancing the department’s prestige.

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Since 2017, the department has been headed byAnna Grygorivna Trokhimenko, Ph.D. in Engineering, Professor.

In 1996, she graduated from Kharkiv State University (V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University) with a degree in “Physics of Biological Systems,” earning honors. In 2001, she defended her Ph.D. thesis in the specialty 03.00.02—"Biophysics"—at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Since 2002, she has been working at the Department of Ecology at Admiral Makarov National University of Shipbuilding. In 2012, she established the NUK’s research ecology laboratory, which was accredited in 2013.
Trohymenko G. G. actively supervises graduate students: in 2018, under her supervision, Svitlana Serhiivna Melnychuk defended her Ph.D. dissertation in the specialty 03.00.16 – Ecology, and in 2019, Nataliia Ivanivna Magas defended her Ph.D. dissertation in the specialty 21.06.01 – Environmental Safety.

In 2018, Hanna Grygorivna defended her doctoral dissertation in the field of 21.06.01—Environmental Safety—at the Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute. She is the author of approximately 280 scientific works, including textbooks, methodological guidelines, articles, and a monograph. She has been awarded certificates of merit from the regional state administration, the mayor, and the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine. In 2017, she received the title of “Teacher of the Year.”

The Department of Ecology and Environmental Protection Technologies includes: I.V. Nakonechny, Ph.D. in Biology, Professor; V.V.; O.M. Marynets, Ph.D. in Engineering, Associate Professor; I.V. Remeshevska, Ph.D. in Engineering, Associate Professor; O.L. Girzheva, Ph.D. in Agricultural Sciences, Associate Professor; O.A. Litvak, Ph.D. in Economics, Associate Professor; Ph.D. in Engineering, Associate Professor N.I. Magas; Acting Associate Professor, Ph.D. in Biology S.S. Melnychuk; Associate Professor A.M. Tubaltsev; Associate Professor A.M. Mozgovyi of the National University of Kyiv; Senior Lecturer N.V. Gurets; Assistant O.G. Grushina; Head of Laboratory G.V. Bidnichenko, Head of Laboratory O.I. Yashchenko; Senior Laboratory Assistant L.I. Gorbunova; Senior Laboratory Assistant O.P. Zhilin; Specialist I.S. Demchenko.

The following faculty members also work part-time at the department: S.M. Litvak, Ph.D. in Engineering, Professor at the National University of Construction; Y.N. Kharitonov, Dr. of Engineering, Professor; L.M. Markina, Dr. of Engineering, Professor; and Y.O. Nakonechna, Lecturer.

Since September 2018, the Department of Ecology and Environmental Protection Technologies has been staffed by a Doctor of Biological Sciences and Professor Igor Vladimirovich Nakonechny, who is a leading scientist in the field of ecology. In 1986, he graduated from the Veterinary Faculty of the Odessa Agricultural Institute, In June 1999, he defended his Ph.D. thesis on “Veterinary and Sanitary Examination of Poultry Meat in Cases of Salmonellosis,” in the specialty 16.00.06—Veterinary Sanitary Examination and Hygiene.

After earning two higher education degrees and a Ph.D. in July 1992, he began working in industry, holding various positions in the Ochakiv and Kazankiv districts of Mykolaiv Oblast. From 2003 to 2018, he worked at V.O. Sukhomlynsky Mykolaiv State University, where he served as head of the Department of Ecology from 2014 to 2018. He spent more than 15 years working on his doctoral dissertation, which he defended in June 2010 at the Ukrainian Institute of Agroecology, earning a Ph.D. in Biological Sciences in the specialty 03.00.16 – Ecology. In February 2013, he was awarded the academic title of professor in the Department of Ecology.

For the past seven years, he has been a member of the Specialized Academic Council at the Institute of Agroecology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, an advisor to the Ministry of Ecology of Ukraine, and an expert on the Professional Scientific Council of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine; since 2008, he has served as an expert on the FAO/WHO Working Group.

Faculty members, graduate students, master’s students, and undergraduates actively participate in the department’s research activities.

As a result of this work, over the past few years, nearly 700 publications have been produced in professional journals and abstracts presented at scientific and scientific-practical conferences in Ukraine and abroad, and more than 90 patents and copyright registration certificates have been obtained.

The faculty members of the department have co-authored more than 10 monographs and 30 textbooks.

The Faculty of Ecology and Environmental Protection Technologies, 2019

From left to right, front row: Svitlana Melnychuk, Nataliia Hurets, Anastasiia Kolehova, Hanna Trokhimenko, Veronika Akhmedova, Olha Litvak, Iryna Demchenko.

Second row: Oleg Vlasenko, Anatoliy Tubaltsev, Olga Grushina, Andriy Mozgovyi, Nataliya Mikheleva, Ihor Nakonechnyi, Ihor Horovyi, Volodymyr Blahodatnyi, Nataliya Magas, Oleksandr Marynets.

In recent years, the department’s staff has carried out the following research projects:

State budget topics:

“Theoretical Foundations for Improving the Stability of Hydrocarbon Fuel Combustion Processes in Low-Emission Combustion Chambers of Gas Turbine Engines Using Plasma-Chemical Stabilizers” (2016–2018). Principal Investigator: Serbin S.I.
2. “Development of an energy conservation program for the city of Pervomaisk for 2010–2020.” Principal Investigator: Kharitonov Y.M.
3. “Systematic research and comprehensive structural optimization of municipal heat supply systems during their modernization and reconstruction.” Principal Investigator: Y.M. Kharitonov
4. “Systemic research and development of models for the programmatic and targeted development of Ukraine’s heat supply systems based on the latest technologies and energy conversion processes.” Principal Investigator: S.S. Ryzhkov
5. State Budget Project No. 1957 “Research on tools for promoting a culture of safe practices among university students” (2014–2018). Principal Investigator: S.S. Ryzhkov

Contract-related topics:

“Development of an Energy- and Environmentally-Efficient District Heating System for the Town of Chornomorske.” Client: Housing and Utilities Department of the Chornomorske Town Council.
2. “Development of an Optimized Water Supply System for the Town of Chornomorske.”
Client: Housing and Utilities Department of the Chornomorsk Town Council.
3. “Development of an optimized water supply scheme for the city of Yuzhnoukrainsk.” Client: Municipal Enterprise “Heat Supply and Water and Sewerage Services.”
4. “Development of an optimized water supply scheme for the city of Nova Odesa.” Client: Municipal Enterprise “Heat Supply and Water and Sewerage Services.”
5. “Development of a draft energy efficiency and energy conservation program for the city of Mykolaiv.” Client: Department of Housing and Communal Services of the city of Mykolaiv.
6. “Development of pyrolysis technology and equipment for converting coal into liquid fuel.”
Joint research and cooperation are being conducted with: the “Yelanets Steppe” Nature Reserve; the “Svyatoslav’s White Coast” National Nature Park; the “Buzky Gard” National Nature Park; KP “Prybuzke” (Nova Odesa); LLC “Druzhba Dairy Company” (Nova Odesa); PJSC AB InBev (Mykolaiv); National Technical University “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”; Odessa Ecological University.
The department’s research and teaching staff actively collaborate with the Mykolaiv City Water Utility, municipal enterprises in the cities of Yuzhnoukrainsk and Nova Odesa, and the Biology Department of Sukhomlinsky National University. The department actively cooperates with the Southern Scientific Center of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Business and scientific ties are maintained with enterprises in the industry, as well as with related departments at leading universities in Ukraine.

In order to conduct scientific research and enhance the professional development of faculty members in the Department of Ecology and Environmental Protection Technologies,the Research Institute for Ecology and Energy Conservation was established within the department in 2003.

The research institute comprises the following departments:
— Center for Environmental Monitoring (Director: G.G. Trokhimenko)
— Center for Pyrolysis Technologies (Director: L.M. Markina);
— Center for Energy-Saving Technologies (Director: L.M. Markina)
— Center for Water Purification and Treatment (Director: G.G. Trofimenko)
— Center for Ecological and Economic Research (Director: O.A. Litvak).

For more than twenty years, the department has been organizingthe traditionalinternational scientific and technical conference “Environmental and Energy Conservation Issues in Shipbuilding,” which is included in the plans of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine.

Twelve such conferences have been held. All department staff, graduate students, and undergraduate students actively participate in organizing the conference.

The conference makes a significant contribution to the implementation of modern approaches to environmental protection and sustainable natural resource management. Interesting and informative presentations, research materials, and new ideas always generate interest at the conference and foster lively scientific discussion. The invaluable experience gained by conference participants is aimed at addressing environmental challenges in various regions of Ukraine.

The Department of Ecology and Environmental Protection Technologies has a modern laboratory facility equipped with state-of-the-art equipment, including laboratories for occupational safety, environmental monitoring, and an environmental laboratory. All laboratories are equipped with the necessary equipment and setups appropriate for the laboratory work conducted at the department.

To bring the educational process closer to the immediate stakeholders, to apply accumulated experience in addressing environmental issues, and to improve staff training by expanding the material resources, the following branches of the Department of Ecology and Environmental Protection Technologies were established: at the Department of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Mykolaiv Regional State Administration (in 1995), the Mykolaiv Regional Ecological and Naturalistic Center for Schoolchildren (in 1998), and the City Executive Committee (in 2002). The presence of these branches allows faculty members to undergo professional development without interrupting the educational process.

Graduates of the department work at many companies and organizations:

the Department of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Mykolaiv Regional State Administration;

the State Environmental Inspectorate in Mykolaiv Oblast;

State Enterprise "Zorya"-"Mashproekt"

Bandursky Oil Extraction Plant, LLC;

Mykolaiv Alumina Plant LLC; Sandora LLC;

Lactalis State Enterprise;

PJSC "Bashtansky Cheese Factory";

Yugcement PJSC;

Mykolaivvodokanal Municipal Utility Company;

PJSC "Mykolaiv Shipyard 'Ocean'";

SAN InBev Ukraine, Inc.;

Mykolaiv Sea Trade Port, Nibulon Joint Venture LLC.

Amongthe department’s alumniare professionals who have achieved success in the professional, academic, and public and political spheres:

I. V. Kubrak (born 1999) – State Inspector for Environmental Protection of the Black Sea (State Environmental Inspection of the Northwestern Black Sea Region); Deputy Head of the State Environmental Protection Administration in Mykolaiv Oblast;
I. K. Zavorotnya (b. 1993) – Deputy Head of the State Environmental Inspection of Ukraine in Mykolaiv Oblast;
O. S. Petryk (b. 1998) – Head of the Environmental Protection Service at the “Agrofusion” holding;
M. O. Pastushenko (born 2007) – Director of Limit Plus LLC;
G. M. Pavlova (born 1999) – Head of the Department of Environmental Protection Programs and Monitoring at the Department of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Mykolaiv Regional State Administration;
S. O. Matusevich (born 2008) – Head of the Environmental Protection Laboratory, Melbourne (Australia);
O. O. Shumilova (born 2014) – PhD candidate, Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Department of Ecohydrology (Berlin, Germany).

The Mykolaiv Region Student Environmental Association has been active for over 12 years, bringing together students majoring in “Ecology” and “Environmental Protection Technologies” as well as faculty members from the department. The association is chaired by Associate Professor A.M. Mozgovyi of the National University of Kyiv. The association conducts educational activities for students.

Student life is filled with nature excursions, interesting trips, and hikes through the protected areas of southern Ukraine. At the initiative of the department’s faculty, students visit enterprises in the city and Mykolaiv Oblast every year to gain practical experience and study environmental issues affecting the Mykolaiv region. Park cleanup campaigns are held. Excursions are organized to the “Yelanets Steppe” Nature Reserve, the Trikratsky Forest, and the “Buzky Hart” National Nature Park.

To foster students’ interest, the department hosts two natural science clubs: “Zapovidne Pobuzhzhya” (which operates in the protected areas of the Mykolaiv region) and “Skarbnytsia Pivdennoho Stepu” (which focuses on the history of soil research in southern Ukraine).