Boris Kosoy

Biography

Professional Preparation

State Academy of Refrigeration, Odesa, Ukraine Thermal Engineering BS 1988

State Academy of Refrigeration, Odesa, Ukraine Thermophysics MS 1989

State Academy of Refrigeration, Odesa, Ukraine Thermal Sciences/ Thermal Design of Heat Pipe Heat Exchangers PhD 1996

National Academy of Food Technologies, Odesa, Ukraine Engineering Thermophysics and Industrial Heat-and-Power Engineering/ Scientific and engineering fundamentals of heat transfer enhancement in thermal control systems' microstructural elements Dr of Sci. (Engineering) 2015

Appointments

− July 2015 –Present: Director, V.S. Martynovsky Institute of Refrigeration, Cryotechnologies and Ecoenergetics, Odesa National University of Technology, Odesa, Ukraine.

− October 2015 –Present: Expert, Energy and Energy Efficiency Commission at Scientific Council of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine.

− September 2012 –July 2015: Professor, Department of Thermodynamics and Renewable Energy, National Academy of Food Technologies, Odesa, Ukraine.

− January 2013 – October 2013: JSPS Fellow, Visiting Professor, Division of Systems Research, Faculty of Engineering, Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Japan

− February –April 2012: Official Scholar in the Erasmus Mundus Masters Course in Engineering Rheology- EURHEO, Ljubljana University, Slovenia

− September 2005 –July 2012: Head of the Programming Department, State Academy of Refrigeration, Odesa, Ukraine.

− March 2001 –August 2002: Vice-Rector, Odesa State Academy of Refrigeration, Odesa, Ukraine.

− July-October 2000: Foreign Research Fellow, Institute of Space and Astronautical Sciences, Sagamihara, Japan.

− August 1997-March 2001: Dean, College of Bachelor Education, State Academy of Refrigeration, Odesa, Ukraine.

− June 1990 – July 1996: Assistant Professor, Department of Engineering Thermodynamics, State Academy of Refrigeration, Odesa, Ukraine.

− October 1989 – June 1990: Research Assistant, Department of Systems for Electronic Cooling, State Academy of Refrigeration, Odesa, Ukraine.

− September 1986 – October 1989: Staff Engineer, Department of Systems for Electronic Cooling, OSAR, Odesa, Ukraine.

Professional Activities

Principal Investigator for the R&D Projects “Thermal Management for Next-generation High-performance Mmicroelectronics with Two-phase Flows of Complex Fluids” funding through the EURIZON project, which is funded by the European Union under grant agreement No.871072, “Development of Energy Efficient Heat Exchangers for Refrigeration & Air-conditioning Industries”, funded by the Indo-Ukrainian Inter-governmental Science & Technology Cooperation Program; "Study of the effectiveness of hybrid systems for thermal management of military microelectronics by the method of Exergy scaling",№ 0117U000363 funded by the Government of Ukraine; “Increasing the reliability of the data centers functioning by thermal control systems based on absorption refrigerating machines and heat pipes” № 0121U109908 funded by the Government of Ukraine; “Increasing the trigeneration energy efficiency based on renewable energy sources when using absorption refrigerating machines and heat pipes” №0123U101825 funded by the Government of Ukraine, DAAD Ukraine Digital – 2024 Scholarship, etc.

Engineering consulting for Ukrainian industry and foreign company professionals in Ukraine: DTI Energy, RE-A-CT, VESTA, Water Treatment Ltd., National Taiwan University, Gheochem (Utrecht University), EOLE, COWIconsult, March Consulting Group, Freeport Research and Engineering, OULU Technopolis Ltd., Ceramic Oxides International B.V., Thermo King, Nord Inc., OdesKholodMash, Cryoin Engineering, etc.

Editorial positions at professional journals: Editor-in-chief Refrigeration Engineering and Technology Journal (2016- present); Associate Editor, International Journal of Energy & Technology (2009-present); Editorial Board Member, International Review of Chemical Engineering (2009-present); Editorial Board Member, British Journal of Engineering & Technology (2012- present), and editor of several proceedings and symposium volumes.

Committee service for professional organizations:

 member of the Scientific Council of the International Center of Heat and Mass Transfer (2005 - present);

 member of the National Committee of Heat and Mass Transfer at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (2018 - present);

 co-director of the NATO ASI on Microsystems for Security - Fundamentals and Applications, August 23 - September 4, 2009, Cesme - Izmir, Turkey;

 member of the European Science Foundation College of Expert Reviewers (2016 - present);

 Invited Professorship of the Turkish Academy of Sciences: TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Middle East Technical University (2011);

 Invited lecturer of the Global Scholar @ TJU Program, Tianjin University, China (2021);

 Reviewer for European Space agency, Slovenian Research agency, Irish Research Council, FCT (Portugal), etc.

Selected Publications @ https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5353-8881

• Kosoy, B.V., and Smirnov, H.F., Refrigerating Heat Pipes, Applied Thermal Eng. Vol.21 (6), 631-41(2001).

• Kosoy, B.V., and Verkhivker, G.P., On the exergy analysis of power plants, Energy Conversion and Management. Vol.42 (18), 2053-59 (2001).

• Kosoy, B.V., Nikitin, D.N., and Smirnov, H.F., Thermal Analysis and Practical Recommendations on Application of Heat Exchangers with Local and Network Evaporated Microchannels, Industrial Heat Engineering, Vol.27(1), 41-49(2005).

• Kosoy, B.V., and Nikitin, D.N., Modeling of Miniaturized Two-Phase Thermal-Control Systems, Heat Transfer Research, Vol.38(7), 601-11(2007).

• Kosoy, B.V., and A. Mehmet, Thermal Analysis of Plastic Serpentine-Type Microchannel Evaporators, ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE2007); November 11-15, Seattle, USA (2007).

• Zhelezny, V.P., Nichenko S.V., Semenyuk Yu.V., Kosoy, B.V., and Kumar R., Influence of compressor oil admixtures on theoretical efficiency of a compressor system, International Journal of Refrigeration, Vol.32(7),1526 - 35(2009).

• Kosoy, B.V., Numerical Simulation of Two-Phase Flows in Micro-Systems, International Review of Chemical Engineering (I.RE.CH.E.), Vol. 2(2), 310-318(2010).

• Microfluidics Based Microsystems-Fundamentals and Applications, Springer: NATO Science for Peace and Security Series A: Chemistry and Biology, Kakaç, S.; Kosoy, B.; Li, D.; Pramuanjaroenkij, A. (Eds.), 1st Edition, 2010, 650 p.

• Kosoy, B.V., Microfluidic refrigeration platforms: strengths and limitations, Proc. Int. Congress of Refrigeration, August 21-26, Prague, 2011.

• Burdo O.G., Kosoy B.V., Smirnov G.F., Slobodeniuk M.I., Experimental study of evaporation at microgroove surfaces, Heat Pipe Science and Technology, An International Journal. Vol. 4, 119-131(2013).

• Kosoy B.V., and Y. Utaka, Peculiarities of heat transfer on micro-structured surfaces, Proc. 50th National Heat Transfer Symposium of Japan, Sendai, Japan, May 29-31, 2013. – Vol. II+III, D211, 342-343.

Kosoy, B.V., Heat Pipes, Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia

CHIEF HONORS AND AWARDS

 Excellence in Teaching Medal, nominated by the Government of Ukraine (1998)

 Honorary Award of the Odesa Regional Council (2012)

 Award of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine – For Scientific and Educational Achievements (2017), etc.

Area of interest

energy security, renewable energetics, engineering thermodynamics, two-phase heat transfer, heat pipes

Also known as

Boris Kosoi; Borys Kosoy; Kosoj, B.V. ; Борис Косой; Б.В. Косой; B.V. Kosoy

Scientific degree

Doctor of Science

Scientific title

Professor

Fields of research and development according to Frascati

2.2. Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering; 2.4. Chemical engineering; 2.7. Environmental engineering; 2.10. Nano-technology; 2.11. Other engineering and technologies;