Biography

BAKHIR Vitold Mikhailovich was born in 1949 in the town of Budyonnovsk in Stavropol region. After graduation from Grozny Oil Institute in 1971 he was qualified as a Mining Engineer. In the same year, he began working for the industrial association “Uzbekgasprom” at the oil and gas fields of South-West Uzbekistan. From 1972 to 1985, he was employed by the Central Asian Research Institute of Natural Gas (SredAzNIIGas of the USSR Mingasprom in Tashkent) as senior engineer, team head, head of electrotechnology laboratory (LET). Between 1985 and 1987, V. M. Bakhir was in charge of a project on electrochemical systems and technologies at NPO VOSTOK of the USSR Defense Ministry (Tashkent). In 1985 he defended his Candidate’s thesis at Kazan Institute of Chemical Technologies in specialty 02.00.05. “Electrochemistry. Technical sciences”. The Academic Council emphasized that V. M. Bakhir’s research cleared the way for a new line of engineering investigation in applied electrochemistry. In 1987 he went to work at All-Union Scientific and Research Institute for Medical Engineering (VNIIIMT of the USSR Health Ministry) in Moscow as Head of Electrochemical Medical Equipment department. In 1993 V. M. Bakhir was elected a member of Russian Academy of Medical and Technical Sciences. In 1996 he defended his Doctor’s thesis, and in 1997 he was awarded Professor academic status. From 1998 года V. M. Bakhir is Vice General Director of ОАО NPO EKRAN with annexed VNIIIMT MZ RF. V. M. Bakhir is the author of more than 400 inventions protected by USSR Certificates of Authorship, patents of Russia, Great Britain, the USA, Canada, Japan and other countries in the new field of research engineering he had developed – electrochemical activation. V. M. Bakhir published over 500 papers on electrochemical treatment of liquids (reports, monographs, manuals, research engineering reviews, technological regulations and instructions, technical conditions, methodical instructions). The first publications date back to 1973.

Activity profile. Formulating and experimental researching new ideas in engineering and technology, offering recommendations on practical implementation of new electrochemical systems and technologies.

Awards and Titles Awarded

Principal findings:

1972 – 1973. Discovery of inequivalence of chemical and electrochemical unipolar actions on liquids, development of first devices for electrochemical treatment of drilling fluids.

1973 – 1977. Offering definite proof of practical (oil and gas borehole drilling) economic and ecological advisability of applying meta-stable substances instead of routinely used chemicals.

1978 – 1979. Detection of anomalous changes in redox potential (ORP) values due to unipolar electrochemical treatment of water. Finding the pattern of ORP relaxation after the end of electrochemical exposure.

1978 – 1985. In cooperation with researchers and experts at facilities in various industries, the possibility and high effectiveness of employing electrochemically activated water and solutions was experimentally studied in many technological processes including petrochemistry, food and defense industries.

1985. Formal recognition by the USSR Higher Attestation Commission of the electrochemical activation technology as a new field of research engineering.

1985 – 1987. Together with Yu. G. Zadorozhny, development of electrochemical reactors in the form of multi-cellular mono-bloc units, starting commercial manufacture of technical electrochemical systems on their basis capable of producing electrochemically activated de-ionized water. Setting up zero-discharge galvanic production.

1988 – 1995. Together with Yu. G. Zadorozhny, flow-through electrochemical modular reactors – FEM-1, FEM-2, FEM-3 cells – for electrochemical activation of water and diluted aqueous solutions were developed, and commercial manufacture of both the reactors and technical electrochemical systems on their basis (STEL and EMERALD devices) was set up.

1987 – 1996. Development of non-contact electrochemical activation technology

1996 - 2000. Developing a technology using diaphragm ion-selective electrolysis – a new technological process of sodium chloride solution electrolysis.

1996 – 2001. Together with Yu. G. Zadorozhny, FEM -7 modules for diaphragm ion-selective electrolysis were designed, and commercial manufacture of FEM -7 modules and AQUACHLOR devices started.

2004. Research into a new technological process – profound electrochemical treatment of sea water – began.

2005. Research into a new technological process – electromigrational de-ionization of dielectric liquids – started.