Dr. Dobos, Gábor According
to my education I am a chemist. I obtained a doctorate in 1984 (Kossuth
University Debrecen, Hungary), and after I began a postdoctoral study
to acquire an academic degree. I engaged in all my praxis in doing
research and development work, solving industrial problems and
elaborating some patents.
![]() As a young
researcher in the Research Institute for Iron Industry (VASKUT) , I had
the opportunity to carry out whole projects, starting with researching
the scientific as well as patent literature of the topic and ending
with pilot plant tests. My first such large task was the development of
electrolytic manganese dioxide, the major component of the dry cells.
We have produced 20 mm thick manganese dioxide deposits by
electrolysis. This fact and the performance of test-batteries proved
that it was a victory over the problems. I am proud of this success to
this day.
I have made my
doctoral thesis, applying the later on patented idea of ion-exchange
leaching and the resin in pulp ("RIP") technique, in order to overcome
the problems of the hydrometallurgical processing of the Hungarian
rhodocrosite ore arising from the large amount and poor filterability
of the fine-grained undissolved host minerals.
Few
years I was the head of the laboratory for chemical analysis of this
research facility, which was a metallurgical unit at the same time,
producing metal alloys of all kinds. This experience in classical
analytical chemistry was later very useful in
making experiments to recover of valuable metals from several
wastes e.g. Ni/Cd and Ni/Fe accumulator scraps, silver from photgraphic
fixing solutions, vanadium from catalysators, Zn from zinc
ash, etc. These work made me familiar with several methods of
hydrometallurgy, e.g. ion-exchange, l/l extraction as well as
electrochemical
methodes.
Later I worked
some years in the Salgótarján Sheet Glass Factory, dealing
with new tasks: deposition of thin layers on sheet glass
surfaces, e.g. chemical vapor deposition of fluorine doped electric
conducting SnO2 layers, colored metal oxide layers by dipping
technology, applying atmospheric chemical vapor deposition directly on
the hot glass ribbon in the course of the glass-drawing process,
synthesis of the needed precursor compounds, construction and building
of the research equipments, radioactive tracer measurements of the
distribution of the metal intake inside the glass-drowing machine,
physical vapor deposition experiments of functional thin layers etc.
As soon as it was possible I founded Chemotronik Kft., my own
R&D firm more than 20 years ago. About our recent developments
you can see some photos in the section "Our Company". One
can ask why deals a chemist with a flying wind power plant. On the one
hand, the energetic aspects of chemistry, like energy storage,
batteries, etc. are obvoious. On the other hand, my getting into touch with
flying goes back to
my childhood, and I have my father to thank for it. He was a handyman,
and he
could have become a phenomenal engineer, had his circumstances made it
possible. As I remember, he always tinkered with something, and I was
his
little helper, or rather his little hindrance. I don’t know what he
liked more,
the work he was going to do, or my „help”. Once my dad had a great
surprise for
me. He said, we would build a model sailplane, - after several kites.
Some days
later he brought the well‑proportioned plans, sketched on tracing
paper, and we
began to build the plane. Probably you have already no doubt, this was
one of
the determining experiences of my childhood. And you can imagine that this
childhood experience bore
a large part in inventing a flying energy harvesting device. This story is underway even now.
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