Albert Baskakov
Albert Pavlovich Baskakov (March 1, 1930 – January 21, 2012) was a Soviet and Russian scientist who specialized in heat treatment and a professor of thermophysics. He was born in Tver Oblast, Russia. He graduated in 1950 from the Moscow Power Engineering Institute and stayed there to work, earning the degree of Candidate of Science.
He then moved to the Ural Polytechnic Institute, where he worked as Assistant Professor (1956–1964), Head of the Department (1964–1998), and later Professor (1998–2011) and Professor-consultant (2011–2012). From 1961 to 1963 he led the research laboratory of the Ural Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences. In 1964 he became head of the department of industrial heat and power engineering.
His main field was thermophysics, especially combustion and the use of solid fuels. At the Ural State Technical University he built a school focused on fluidized systems and heat treatment of metals in a fluidized bed. In the 1980s he developed a heat treatment process that was adopted by many defense industry plants. He led the construction of Russia's first 10 MW circulating fluidized-bed boiler, installed at a coal mine in Tulgan.
In the 1980s and 1990s he received several awards, including a RSFSR fellowship (1988), the N. A. Markevich Award from Mashpom USSR (1983), and a top prize in the European Union's energy savings contest (1995). Baskakov wrote about 15 textbooks and monographs and published more than 600 articles, conference papers, and patents. He died on January 21, 2012.
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