Lazarin K. Lazarov
700 S. 17th. St., #8,
Lincoln, Nebraska 68508
Phone/Fax: (402)435-5702
CURRICULUM VITAE
Date and Place of Birth:
28. October 1936, Lovetch, Bulgaria
Personal:
Married (wife - Danny, one daughter - Dorothea), see Family
Permanent resident of the U.S.
Academic Record:
M.Sc.(Chemical Engineering), 1962, Higher Institute of Chemical Technology of Sofia (Bulgaria), (Thesis: Syntheses of some Ester Lubricants)
Ph.D.(Organic Chemistry), 1971, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, (Thesis: Coking Coal Structure and Thermoplasticity Phenomena)
D.Sc.(Coal Chemistry), 1988, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, (Thesis: Structural Aspects of Coalification and Carbonization)
Research Positions:
1979-1990: Associate Professor, Team Head in the Institute of Organic Chemistry of Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
1992-1995: Senior Research Associate in the Chemical Engineering Department of Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, USA
Honors:
International Who's Who in Energy and Nuclear Sciences
Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow (1974-76, Max-Planck Institut fuer Kohlenforschung, Germany)
Visiting Scientist at Bergbau Forschung GmbH, Germany (1987-88)
Visiting Scientist at Lehigh University, Pennsylvania, USA (1990-1992)
Presentations at:
The 1968 Intern. Conference on Coal Science, Prague; The 1981 Intern. Conference on Coal Science, Duesseldorf; The 1986 Rolduc Intern. Symposium on Coal Science (The Netherlands); The 1987 Intern. Conference on Coal Science, Maastricht, The Netherlands; The 1993 Intern. Conference on Coal Science, Banff, Canada
Publications:
Book: L.Lazarov and G.Angelova, Structure and Reactions of Coals, Publishing House of B.A.Sc., Sofia, 1990, in Russian
U.S.Patent 5,382,267/1995 (R.L.Savage and L.Lazarov, Method of Desulfurization of Coals)
41 original papers and 9 review articles in refereed journals
(List of Publications)
Member:
American Chemical Society; Sigma Xi Scient. Research Society
Languages spoken:
English, German, Russian, Polish, Bulgarian
Working experience in:
- Coal/Petroleum Fuels/Products Characterization
- Laboratory/Pilot Scale Coal Processing
- Separation and Chromatographic Characterization of Organic Fuel Liquids and Heavy Organic Products (GC, HPLC, GPC)
- Molecular Spectroscopy of Complex Organic Mixtures and Macromolecular Solids (NMR, IR, ESR)
- Active Carbons/Adsorbents/Catalyst Characterization
- Gas Stream/Flue Gas Analysis/Cleanup
- Air Sampling & Air Analysis
- Water Analysis
- Polymer Characterization (Thermomechanical Analysis, Solvent Swelling)
- Vacuum/Pressure Techniques
- Wet Organic Laboratory; Classical Methods for Chemical Analysis