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The Center for Certification Testing of Non-Ferrous Metals, Standard Samples and Metrological Support of Analytical Control of the Production of Non-Ferrous Metals and Products Made of Them was created on the basis of the Analytical Department of JSC “TITAN INSTITUTE” – the leading one in Ukraine in the field of primary non-ferrous metallurgy, rare earth and semiconductor industry and the basic one in the field of metrological support of production (CERTIFICATE OF RECOGNITION OF COMPETENCE No. 06544-2-7-71U-VL, date of registration 02.10.2023).
Specialization of the Center for Certification Testing of Non-Ferrous Metals, Standard Samples and Analytical Support of Analytical Control – certification tests, performance of metrological examinations, development of new methods of analysis and standard samples, assessment of the technical competence of measuring laboratories of enterprises and organizations of Ukraine.

The center includes two testing laboratories: the laboratory of chemical and physicochemical research and analysis methods (lab. No. 13) and the laboratory of physical and spectrochemical research and analysis (lab. No. 18). Together they are capable of solving many problems in their field of activity.

The distinctive feature of the Center is a wide range of technical capabilities and versatility in performing work. The Center’s specialists have at their disposal devices of domestic production, leading companies from the USA, Japan, Holland, Germany, Great Britain, Russia, as well as devices of their own design. This allows solving almost any problems of analytical control of products at all stages of the technological cycle: determining the material composition from microconcentrations to macrocontent in objects of the metallurgical industry and other industries, monitoring the air and water basins of enterprises and industries. In the agricultural complex, the Center can perform a full range of studies from soil research to analysis of finished products, determining the content of heavy metals and nitrates.

The Center’s specialists perform the following types of work:
• certification testing of materials and substances, as well as products made from them in the facilities declared in the area of competence. The nomenclature of measurement objects includes: aluminum and aluminum-based alloys; primary magnesium; granulated magnesium, magnesium alloys, sponge titanium, titanium blanks, shaped titanium castings, titanium alloys, titanium tetrachloride, titanium powders of all types, titanium concentrate, titanium slag, titanium iodide, titanium dioxide pigment, titanium alloys; nickel, nickel and copper-nickel alloys; manganese, manganese raw materials, technological products of germanium production; germanium dioxide; hafnium dioxide, hafnium oxychloride; scandium oxide, scandium-containing compounds; zirconium concentrate, zirconium and zirconium-containing compounds; bauxites of various deposits, alumina, electrocorundum, kyanite-silimanite concentrate, staurolite concentrate, tungsten concentrate, titanium ores of all origins, rutile concentrate, ilmenite concentrate, iron ores and agglomerates, refractories and refractory raw materials; silicon carbide, boron carbide, ferroalloys, sludge and slag from ferronickel production and ferroalloy production, lime and its compounds, steel, cast iron and other metallurgical objects, rare metals, semiconductor materials, carbon products and all types of waste from these objects, emissions into the atmosphere from stationary industrial sources, surface and return water, waste, soils;
• performance of work on the assessment of the technical competence of measuring laboratories of enterprises and organizations of Ukraine in order to meet the needs of business entities and their divisions in independent recognition of competence regarding measurements and testing of characteristics (indicators) of products of the mining and metallurgical, mechanical engineering and chemical industries in accordance with SOU 74.9-001:2017 “Assessment and recognition of the competence of business entities and their divisions to carry out measurements on a voluntary basis. General requirements and procedure”;
• provision of scientific and technical assistance to enterprises and organizations of Ukraine on metrological support of analytical control of production;
• development and validation of advanced analysis methods for incoming control, processing of technological production and finished products in accordance with current international standards and product quality requirements;
• development, certification and production of standard samples of the composition and properties of substances and materials, in particular, interstate, state, standard samples of enterprises, reference materials;
• performing control and arbitration analyses;
• metrological examination of regulatory documentation, establishing metrological characteristics and validation of measurement methods;
• development of state and industry standards for measurement methods;
• participation in product certification work;
• creation of a database of measurement methods and analytical equipment of non-ferrous metallurgy enterprises of Ukraine;
• issuing recommendations for the acquisition of analytical equipment, including imported, and technical assistance in its development.

Information about the Center for Certification Testing of Non-Ferrous Metals, Standard Samples and Metrological Support of Analytical Control

Address: 69035, Zaporozhye, Soborny Avenue, 180

Phone (061) 289-81-71

E-mail: csmniititan@gmail.com

Director of the Center, Ph.D. Pryakhina Victoria

Chief metrologist Aleynikova Tatyana

Zaporozhye metallurgical pilot plant (ZMOZ)

Zaporozhye metallurgical pilot plant is an organizational department of JSC “TITANIUM INSTITUTE”. It has been founded in order to develop and introduce new developments in the field of metallurgy of titanium and powder metallurgy of titanium.

Its products т€“ titanium powder and titanium powder articles.

Porous sintered articles have application in chemical, textile, metallurgical and other industries for purification of various media (TU U 27.4-00201081-001-2003). They also find application in filtration of drinking and mineral water (TU U 27.4-00201081-002-2003).

During work in aggressive media: – as filtering elements in various cartridge filters; – as aerators in installations for regeneration and concentration by flotation method; – on the installations for biological treatment of waste waters.

Practicability of porous titanium articles results from their high corrosion resistance, biological neutrality, possibility to adjust pore sizes, porosity, mechanical strength and dimensions in the process of manufacturing.

They are applied in the form of cups, tubes, Raschig rings and other elements of equipment for chemical, textile, metallurgical and other industries.

A wide range of tests has been performed, which showed positive results for use of porous sintered titanium articles for various applications.

For example, the research carried out on flotation cell for foaming separation on concentration plants showed, that foam separation machines with titanium tubes serving as aerators yield higher process parameters.

Porous titanium tubes are used as aerators on installations for waste water biological treatment, replacing slotted acid-resistant pipe. Testing showed, that the application of titanium powder porous sintered elements allowed to sharply increase oxygen content in the treated waste waters. Oxygen is very important for life support of the silt.

At present porous titanium filters are installed on several facilities for mineral water dispensing.

In comparison with other porous materials, they have a number of advantages:

– high strength;
– corrosion resistance;
– biological passivity;
– low specific gravity;
– can be repeatedly used after regeneration.

Porous titanium articles can be welded by argon-arc, pressure contact or diffusion welding, can be machined.

The enterprise can arrange delivery of articles in required quantities as well as provide technological support in determination of the best conditions for application of porous titanium articles.

TITANProject

TITANProject is a structural part of the JSC “TITANIUM INSTITUTE”, its scope of activity is acting as a design organization in the field of designing primary non-ferrous metallurgy facilities (titanium and magnesium, electrode, aluminum, semiconductor and others), including gas supply facilities.

TITANProject has a working quality management system. The first Quality Certificate (Ref. No. 751009262) was awarded on March 5, 2003 by international certification body TUV-CERT to certify that quality management system has been established and applied in accordance with ISO 9001:2000 with the scope of application “Development and commercialization of processes and equipment for metallurgical and chemical industry, engineering service”. As a result of certification audit verifying the compliance to requirements of international standard ISO 9001:2008 the certification body of TUV SUD Management Service GmbH (Munich, Germany) awarded the Institute Quality Certificate Ref. No. 1210038005 TMS on March 24, 2010. In 2011 certification body JSC “Global Certifik” awarded certificate UA-GC/1/057:2011 of February 26, 2011.

In February 2020, JSC “TITANIUM INSTITUTE” successfully passed a certification audit conducted by Global Certificate LLC for compliance of the quality management system with the requirements of the international standard ISO 9001:2015 in order to confirm that the quality management system in force at the enterprise ensures the quality of design work. stability and reliability of services provided to our partners. Certification branch – “Development and implementation of technologies and equipment at enterprises of the metallurgical and chemical industries. Engineering services”. The validity period of the Certificate is 3 years.

In recent years TITANProject has been performing design work for such enterprises as SE “Zaporozhye Titanium & Magnesium Combine”, “Nikolaev Alumina Refinery” Ltd., JSC “Pobuzhye Ferronickel Integrated Works” Ltd., PJSC “Semiconductor Plant”, UKRTSINK JSC, “Zaporozhcoke” PJSC, affiliate of “Crimea Titan” PJSC “Volnogorsk Mining-Metallurgical Integrated Works”, SRDE “Zirconium”, Dneprodzerdzhinsk, “Valki-Ilmenite” Ltd., Zhitomir region, “Mezhdurechensk Mining and Concentration Plant” and others.

The primary objectives of TITANProject are:

• Improvement of technical level of enterprises producing titanium, magnesium, alumina, aluminum, nickel, silicon, zirconium, vanadium, tantalum, niobium, rare earth metals, semiconductor, carbon and powder materials;
• Ensure the increase of non-ferrous metals winning and of raw material multipurpose use together with waste utilization;
• Design of the new equipment and refurbishment of the existing equipment for production of titanium, magnesium aluminium and their powder grades, for electrode, semiconductor and other industries;
• Organization and performing of renovation, technical upgrade and re-design of the existing facilities as well as supervision of the construction of the new ones;
• Elaboration of business plans and development schemes for the supervised production facilities.

TITANProject includes the following departments:

• Chief Engineers Bureau;
• Foreign Relations Department;
• Metallurgical Department;
• Design Department;
• Electrical Engineering Department;
• Construction Department;
• Instrumentation And Automation Department;
• Sanitary Engineering Department;
• Cost Estimate Department.

Scope of scientific and technical activities of NIITitan includes:

• Carrying out the scientific research and experimental work;
• Development and introduction of the new and upgrade of the existing production processes and equipment for non-ferrous industry;
• Improvement of technical level of non-ferrous metallurgy production facilities;
• Ensuring the improvement of non-ferrous winning and multipurpose utilization of raw materials together with disinfection, processing and utilization of production waste, development and introduction of non-waste and zero-discharge production processes and environment protection activities;
• Development and introduction of new materials and energy-saving production processes;
• Determination of the most efficient scopes of application of non-ferrous metals, primarily, titanium and magnesium, study and improvement of consumption patterns for these materials;
• Elaboration of state programs and concepts for creation, development and reforming of non-ferrous industry in Ukraine.

NIITitan includes:

• Laboratory of Electrothermy and Industrial Ecology (No. 1)
• Laboratory of Chlorine Processes (No. 2);
• Laboratory of Metallothermy and Powder Metallurgy (No. 3);
• Laboratory of Electrochemical Production Facilities (No. 6);
• Laboratory of Process Gases Purification (No. 20).

In recent years the following developments have been made in the field of non-ferrous metallurgy:

• Lithium – technology for lithium and lithium salts winning for the raw material from Polokhovskoe deposit producing commercially pure lithium carbonate, which enjoys high demand on world markets;
• Titanium dioxide – technology for enrichment of ilmenite concentrate with reduction of chrome oxides content in them; technology for titanium slag smelting from the chromeless concentrate with following processing into pigment titanium dioxide by sulphate method;
• Features of production technology of pigment titanium dioxide by chloride method using domestic raw materials for production of high quality pigments;
• Silicon – technology for chlorination of silicon-containing raw materials and hydration of the produced silicon tetrachloride;
• Manganese – technology for production of electrolytic manganese from manganese sulphate solutions after purification;
• Gallium – technology for production of gallium from alumina production mother solutions;
• Zinc – pyrometallurgical technology for production of zinc-containing clinker for further hydrometallurgical processing producing crude zinc
• Ferroalloys – testing of various raw materials for production of concentrates for ferroalloys production; ferrotitanium production technology; metallurgical testing of titanium-magnetite concentrates from Fedorovskoe deposit with for ferrovanadium production purpose;;
• Titanium powders, powders of other metals, powder articles – technology for production of titanium powders and powders of other metals; technology for manufacturing of titanium powder porous sintered articles in the shape of disks;
• Bushings, cups, Raschig rings and other equipment elements for application in chemical, textile, metallurgical and other industries for performing work in aggressive media as filtering elements; technology for production of titanium hydride from titanium powders;
• Titanium – full range of works, starting from titanium slag production up to waste processing and utilization;
• Technology for titanium slag production in ore-smelting furnaces, technology of titanium slag chlorination producing crude titanium tetrachloride;
• Technology for deep purification of titanium tetrachloride; technology and equipment for magnesium reduction of titanium tetrachloride;
• Technology for reacting mass vacuum s; technology and equipment for titanium sponge blocks processing and forming of titanium sponge commercial lots;
• Magnesium – technology for granulated magnesium production for cast iron desulphurization; technology and equipment for magnesium production in the diaphragmless cell; continuous magnesium refining furnace; range of research and testing of domestic bischofite deposits for the purpose of supplying Ukrainian industry with domestic magnesium-containing raw materials;
• Zirconium – technology for zirconium sponge production by magnesium-thermic method, tested on pilot production units, technology of Ti-Zr masteralloys production by magnesium-thermic method; technology for electrolytic production of titanium sponge alloyed by zirconium;
• Aluminum – technology for production of alumosilicic alloys; technology for bauxites dry preparation;
• Vanadium – three variants of technology for vanadium recovery from chloride waste and organization of vanadium pentoxide production;
• Scandium – technology for chloride waste processing for scandium recovery;
• Niobium – technology for waste processing for tantalum and niobium concentrate recovery with total tantalum and niobium pentoxides content no less than 60 %; technology for metallothermic niobium production;
• Germanium – range of research on germanium recovery from various types of germanium-containing waste, including tar-waters of coking plants.

Ovchinnikov Alexander Vladimirovich
Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, Deputy General Director for NIITitan JOINT STOCK COMPANY «TITANIUMINSTITUTE » (JSC «TITANIUMINSTITUTE »)
Education and qualifications: Zaporozhye State Technical University, 1994-1999, specialty «Welding technology and equipment», AR No. 11581438.
Doctor of Technical Sciences, specialty «Materials Science», diploma number DD No. 002562. Professor of the Department of Mechanics, 04.28.2015, certificate series 12PR, No. 010362.

Scientific interests:
In 2021, under the leadership of A.V. Ovchinnikov founded the scientific school «Titanium and zirconium: metallurgy and mechanical engineering». Under the leadership of A.V. Ovchinnikov are protected:
 6 dissertations for the degree of candidate of technical sciences
• Skrabtsov A.A. (2Improving the mechanical and performance properties of sintered titanium alloys», 2015, Materials Science)
• Mitina T.A. («Increasing the mechanical properties of submicrocrystalline titanium alloys during deformation and mechanical processing», 2012, Materials Science)
• Seliverstov O.G. («Improving the properties of welded joints of rotor parts of gas turbine engines made of titanium alloy VT8», 2016, Materials Science)
• Davydov S.I. («Improving the technology for producing titanium with a given oxygen content», 2010, Metallurgy of ferrous and non-ferrous metals)
• Yanko T.B. («Development of technology for complex alloying of titanium and zirconium in the process of magnesium-thermal reduction», 2016, Metallurgy of Non-Ferrous Metals)
• Kapustyan O.E. («Increasing the mechanical and service properties of welded joints of sintered structural titanium», 2019, Materials Science)
 1 dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy:
• Efanov V.S. («Improving the technology for manufacturing cast cathodes from a nickel alloy for applying heat-resistant coatings to aircraft engine blades», 2021, Metallurgy)
 1 dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Technical Sciences:
• Pavlenko D.V. («Development of scientific foundations and improvement of processes for manufacturing parts from powder materials for gas turbine engines using severe plastic deformation», 2021, Forming Processes and Machines).

Currently, he is leading the preparation for the defense of 3 candidate and 2 doctoral dissertations.

Main directions of scientific activity:
technology for the production of spherical and non-spherical powders of titanium, zirconium, nickel and other alloys for 3D printers;
development of import-substituting technology for producing gas turbine engine blades for unmanned vehicles;
production of new generations of aviation heat-resistant intermetallic alloys in the conditions of Ukraine;
implementation of the production of medical implants from Ti and Zr using 3D printing technology.

Awards, distinctions: is the deputy chairman of the «Mechanical Engineering2 section of the Scientific Council of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, a member of the current Technical Commission for Standardization of the State Consumer Standard of Ukraine, an active expert of the National Research Foundation of Ukraine, a member of the editorial boards of two specialized scientific journals of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, a member specialized scientific council for the defense of candidate and doctoral dissertations in the specialty «Materials Science».
Publications: There are more than 200 scientific papers, patents and copyright certificates in the field of production and use of titanium.
Tel.+38(067)6136562; Email:iaov31@gmail.com.

Profiles in sciences metric databases:
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5649-1094
https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=57192110535
https://scholar.google.com.ua/citations?hl=uk&user=X2TY9NcAAAA