State Scientific-Research and Design Institute of Basic Chemistry

Director - Iryna Dovgalyuk

State Scientific-Research and Design Institute of Basic Chemistry (NIOCHIM) is a complex institute consisting of Scientific Division, Design Division and Experimental Factory.

List of products:
- scientific products in processes, equipment, instrumentation and control systems for basic chemistry plants and know-how
- comprehensive engineering documentation for basic chemistry plants and facilities
- tailored equipment, apparatus and instruments
- household chemicals
- small-scale chemicals.

Main lines of operations:

NIOCHIM is a leading chemical industry institute in Ukraine and CIS busy in development of technologies and engineering of inorganic chemistry plants.

NIOCHIM is accredited and attested by Ministry of Industrial Policy of Ukraine as a highest level "A" scientific organization, leading in the field of basic chemistry plants, particularly soda and connected products and responsible for development and technological level of 60 most important inorganic chemicals.

According to the results of State Attestation NIOCHIM has been included to State Register of Scientific Organizations to obtain government support up to 2006.

On the basis of NIOCHIM national (TC53) and international (MTC142) technical committees were created in standards for "Soda ash, soda products, barium salts, sulfates from brines and active fillers".

NIOCHIM is a leading Ukrainian organization on standards in inorganic chemical products; in measurements ensuring environment protection and labor safety in basic chemical industries; leading organization of Metrological Service in Ministry of Industrial Policy of Ukraine; Center of State Service of Standard Samples, Inorganic Chemical Products, Materials, Reagents, Non-metal Ions, Organic and Inorganic Compounds for Environment Control.

NIOCHIM performs:
- research in development of new inorganic chemicals; development and improvement of manufacturing processes and equipment of chemical plants; processes and equipment for purification of exhaust gases, liquid and solid wastes and effluents; instrumentation and automation means for manufacturing processes; automatic control systems for industrial plants and facilities;
- comprehensive engineering of chemical plants including: layout, process engineering, architectural and construction engineering, engineering structures, pits and mines, brine ponds, heat supply, gas supply, sewage; truck and railroad traffic facilities; development of acceptable exhausts and concentration standards, environment protection, labor protection and evaluation of environment impacts; development of design documentation for equipment of chemical and connected industries, procurement of equipment to sites, organization of construction process, etc.

Experimental Factory manufactures:
- mass and heat exchangers; vessels and dosage equipment; particulate matter packing and transportation equipment;
- chemical products: fire extinguishing and explosion suppressing powders, inorganic salt compounds, industrial and household detergents, cleaning powders and pastes, synthetic zeolites, alumophosphate binders, etc.

On the basis of NIOCHIM developments and engineering large chemical plants have been built:
- Crimean Soda Plant, Ukraine
- Zeway Caustic Soda Plant, Ethiopia
- Barium and strontium compounds facilities at Kostyantynivka, Ukraine and Sterlitamak, Russia
- Manufactures of soda ash, potassium carbonate, potassium sulfate at alumina plants in Achinsk and Pikalevo, both Russia.

On the basis of NIOCHIM developments new facilities have been built:
- ammonium chloride and calcium chloride at Lisichansk Soda Plants and Slavyansk Soda Plant, Ukraine; БС120 and БС100 precipitated silicas at Sterlitamak and Leninsk, Russia
- fire extinguishing powders, precipitated calcium carbonate, calcium hydroxide and fine calcium oxide at Slavyansk Soda Plant, Ukraine
- bischofite in Turkmenistan.

According to NIOCHIM engineering soda ash facilities have been updated and expanded:
- Crimean Soda Plant, Ukraine; Lisichansk Soda Plant, Slavyansk Soda Plant, Ukraine
- Berezniki Soda Plant, Sterlitamak Soda Plant, Russia.

Specialists from NIOCHIM participated in engineering, commissioning and startup of Devnya Soda Plant, Bulgaria.

NIOCHIM concluded 30 license agreements, obtained 100 patents in foreign countries, published 72 collections of articles and 8 monographs.

The developments of NIOCHIM scientists were awarded two State Prizes of Ukraine in the Field of Science and Technology, particularly in 1999 for "Development of Theoretical Foundations of Process and Equipment of Soda Ash Plant and Creation of Crimean Soda Plant Industrial Complex" as well as one Prize of Council of Ministers of the USSR.

The main line of NIOCHIM research and engineering works is development and introduction of new chemical plants and improvement of existing ones.

The available scientific and technological capacity allows to solve problems of other industries as well, such as petrochemical, rubber, coal mining, food, machine building, etc.

In the period of reforms in Ukrainian economy NIOCHIM managed to strengthen most lines of research and have certain achievements in international cooperation.

NIOCHIM possesses a substantial experience of international cooperation with enterprises and companies of Russia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Germany, France, Bulgaria, Poland, Ethiopia, etc. in development of new advanced processes and competitive equipments as well as in engineering of inorganic chemistry plants.