Year of Establishment: 2017
The laboratory was established through the reorganization of the BNTU Research and Development Branch by merging the R&D Laboratories of Materials Science (RIL MS) and Technological Processes and Production Equipment (RIL TPPE). In 2019, the Laboratory of Industrial Gas Cleaning (RIL IGC) was incorporated as the sector for gas emissions purification in foundry shops.
Head of the Laboratory: Leonid Petrovich Dolgiy, Ph.D. in Technical Sciences
Sector Heads:
"Resource Conservation in Metallurgy": Anatoly Grigoryevich Slutskiy, Ph.D. in Technical Sciences, Associate Professor
"Purification of Gas Emissions in Foundry Shops": Alexander Semyonovich Panasyugin, Ph.D. in Chemical Sciences
Scientific Consultant: Boleslav Mecheslavovich Nemenyonok, D.Sc. in Technical Sciences, Professor
Contact Information: Tel/Fax: +375 (17) 296 66 56
Main Areas of Activity:
Conducting scientific research and applied works in metallurgy, foundry production, and materials related to resource-saving technologies for the creation of new alloys for castings from ferrous and non-ferrous metals.
Developing effective modifiers, deoxidizers, filtering elements, refining and degassing agents, release agents for technological equipment, multifunctional alloys, and devices for quality control of metals in castings.
Creating high-quality alloys for various products, including the development of recycling technologies for non-ferrous metal alloy waste.
Developing, analyzing, and testing adhesive joints and creating methodologies for analyzing adhesive bonds.
Research focused on synthesizing and studying the properties of highly selective sorbents for extracting radionuclides from various aqueous media, and modifying industrial waste to create filter media for wastewater treatment from heavy metals.
Conducting studies to determine the quantitative and qualitative composition of harmful emissions and physical factors produced during manufacturing processes, assessing their impact on the atmosphere, hydrosphere, and public health. Based on these findings, providing scientifically-based recommendations to mitigate or prevent harmful effects.
List of Services Provided:
- Determination of metallurgical yield in the processing of secondary raw materials of various foundry alloys (JSC "Beltsvetmet").
- Research and development of technological processes for extracting metals from secondary raw materials.
- Performing calculations and simulation (mathematical) modeling of casting and solidification processes.
- Development of technological processes for fine filtration of cast iron and steel in molds using foam ceramic filters, fiberglass filters, and ceramic cellular filters (in collaboration with Soligorsk Plant JSC "Universal-Lit").
- Development of technological processes for manufacturing steel and cast iron castings using heated exothermic inserts and adiabatic riser insulators (in collaboration with RUE "MAZ").
- Refinement of melting and modifying technologies for heat-resistant steels with reduced Ni content for manufacturing thermal shop tooling (in collaboration with RUE "MTZ").
- Development of technology for producing critical castings from manganese steel 110G13L by remelting using modifiers based on barium-strontium carbonates (in collaboration with RUE "BEMZ").
- Development of technological processes for producing castings from cast iron with spheroidal and vermicular graphite (in collaboration with RUE "MAZ" and "MTZ").
- Research and development of technological processes for obtaining high-silicon alloys based on aluminum.
- Development of the technological process for refining and modifying the melt of tin and aluminum bronzes to reduce gas porosity and enhance mechanical properties of castings by refining the metal structure ("Vtormet").
- Development of flux compositions for processing silumins and copper-based alloys.
- Development of water-emulsion lubricants for processing molds in die casting machines for manufacturing castings from aluminum-based alloys.
- Technological consultations related to the laboratory's field of activity.
- Emission inventory.
- Development of projects for permissible emission standards (PES).
- Development of environmental passports for enterprises.
- Adjustment and efficiency testing of gas and dust collection systems.
- Development of passports for gas and dust collection systems.
- Development of waste generation standards.
- Development of instructions for handling industrial waste.
Major Achievements:
- The laboratory maintains scientific connections with the State Scientific Institution "Physico-Technical Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus," State Scientific Institution "Institute of Metal Technology of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus," State Scientific Institution "Institute of Heat and Mass Transfer of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus," State Scientific Institution "Joint Institute of Mechanical Engineering of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus," and JSC "Beltsvetmet."
- Executed commercial contracts and agreements with JSC "Beltsvetmet," JV LLC "AluminTechno," JSC "Babushkina Krynka," JV "Belokrio" LLC, JSC "Kokhanovsky Pipe Plant 'Beltrobplast,'" JV LLC "Arvas," SE "Belhydraulics," JSC "LMZ Universal" (Soligorsk), JSC "Lida LMZ," JSC "Belarusian Metallurgical Plant" (Zhlobin), JSC "MTZ," CJSC "ATLANT," Baranovichi Machine-Tool Plant, JSC "BELNIILIT," JSC "Gomel Plant 'Centrolit'," and other enterprises.
- Developed a universal technological process for recycling batteries, considering environmental safety and economic feasibility. Proposed the implementation of this technology for utilizing spent batteries and the materials obtained from them.
- Developed technologies for strengthening molds used in die casting through boriding and carbonitriding, increasing their operational durability by 1.5 to 3 times.
- Developed a technology for producing iron-free ligatures using furnace and out-of-furnace aluminothermy methods.
- Designed and created a prototype system for monitoring the structure of cast products with complex geometry using an acoustic resonance method based on microprocessor tools with high-frequency analog-to-digital signal conversion.
- Developed and initiated the production of molds for thermite welding of rails.
- Developed and patented two methods for testing complex adhesive joints based on key quality parameters, accompanied by the necessary fixtures. Analyzing the adhesion of various materials with adhesive joints, issuing a technological chart for manufacturing model kits and non-detachable adhesive joints.
- The Student Research Bureau "Alloy" operates within the Research and Innovation Laboratory of Foundry Technologies (RIL FT) (headed by Anatoly Grigoryevich Slutskiy, Ph.D. in Technical Sciences, Associate Professor).
- RIL FT has a modern material and technical base. Research is conducted using 8 experimental equipment units, 7 control and measurement devices, as well as melting and heat-treatment furnaces.
