Valentin Parmon managed the design and experimental industrial implementation of the first domestic technology for processing oil-associated gases into a mixture of liquid aromatic hydrocarbons, addressing the issue of APG utilization.

Dr. Parmon also supervises works on fuel production from plant materials – microalgae, vegetable oils, wood pulp, rice husks (more than 15,000 tons of the latter is produced annually in the Krasnodar Region alone, and 7-8 million tons in South East Asia).  He believes chemists must learn to process these byproducts into useful substances – for example, sorbents - and eventually into fuel.

Valentin Parmon’s entire academic career is related to non-traditional chemical catalytic processes. He focuses on conversion of solar, nuclear and thermal power into chemical energy.