Instytut Inżynierii
Chemicznej i Procesowej
Politechnika Krakowska
ABOUT
About chemical engineering - O inzynierii chemicznej
(tekst polskojezyczny)
(polish text)
SUMMARY
The research activity of the
Institute covers wide range of topics in chemical engineering. It serves with
its expertise many branches of chemical and food industries. As environment
pollution is a big problem in
GENERAL
The Institute at present employs a
total of 38 staff with six professors. It is organised into four research groups:
Chemical
Reactors and Motion of Mass
Kinetics
(Head: Prof. Bolesław Tabi)
Fundamental Processes and Environmental
Protection Apparatus
(Head: Prof. Janusz Magiera)
Separation
of Mixtures and Process
Thermodynamics
(Head: Prof. Barbara Tal-Figiel)
RESEARCH
The main research areas:
Chemical and Process Engineering
Theoretical
and experimental work on hydrodynamics, heat and mass transfer in multi-phase
systems, design and development guidelines for commercial application of
apparatus for the separation of components in heterogeneous systems; research
on new methods and novel technology of gas desulphurization, development of
flue gas desulphurization methods; engineering of systems; mathematical
modeling of chemical homo- and heterogeneous processes; theoretical studies on
multiple steady states of autothermal
systems.
a. Multiphase flow and heat transfer (Prof. Janusz Magiera). Study and applications the unit operations for the environmental use. Renewable energy sources, economics, perspective, use of solar energy and design of apparatus for European climates, interpreted heat systems with heat pump, solar collectors and biomas kettle. Utilizing technology and installation for waste oils rerafination..
b. Theory of chemical reactors (Prof. Bolesław
Tabi). Theoretical
investigation of chemically reacting systems with lumped and distributed state
variables. Analysis and digital simulation of multiphase processes. Theoretical
studies on fluidised bed
reactors. Application of catastrophe theory and deterministic chaos theory to
the analysis of non-linear phenomena in reacting systems.
c. Adsorption engineering (Prof. Krzysztof Kupiec). Kinetics of adsorption, thermal effects
of adsorption, adsorption-desorption
cycles, pressure swing adsorption, dehydration of ethanol by PSA method.
d. Multiphase flow and mass transfer (Prof. Barbara Tal-Figiel). Interfacial transport phenomena. Investigation and modeling of mass transfer and biotechnology processes. Non-conventional methods of mass transfer process intensification.