Scientific researchScientific research

at the Faculty at the Faculty

of Chemical and Processof Chemical and Process

Engineering Engineering WUTWUT

Basic information

The Faculty was assigned „A” category

in parametric evaluation done in 2014

by the Ministry of Science

and Higher Education.

The Faculty is recognized as the best

national centre conducting scientific research in chemical engineering.

Staff: 42 persons on the research-academic positions (18 with habilitation or professors)

ca. 25 PhD students

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Current research projects:

>20 scientific grants (NCN/NCBR, international) several projects in cooperation with the industry (domestic and foreign)

Faculty council

Dean: Prof. Eugeniusz Molga, PhD DSc

Vice-Dean for General Affairs: Wojciech Orciuch, PhD

Vice-Dean for Scientific Research: Assoc. Prof. Tomasz Sosnowski, PhD DSc

Vice-Dean for Education: Assoc. Prof. Marek Henczka, PhD DSc

Vice-Dean for Student Affairs: Andrzej Krasiński, PhD

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Contact:

Warynskiego 1, 00-645 Warsaw, Poland

Tel/fax: +48 22 825 1440

www.ichip.pw.edu.pl

Structure of the Faculty

- Chair of Integrated Processes Engineering

- Division of Biotechnology and Bioprocess Engineering

- Division of Chemical Reactor Dynamics and Engineering

- Division of Process Kinetics and Thermodynamics

- Division of Separation Processes

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Main areas of research

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PRODUCT ENGINEERING

PRODUCT ENGINEERING

NANOTECHNOLOGY NANOTECHNOLOGY

PROCESS INTENSIFICATION

PROCESS INTENSIFICATION

BIOENGINEERING BIOENGINEERING

MICROFLUIDICS MICROFLUIDICS

SEPARATION SEPARATION

MODELING MODELING and PROCESS

OPTIMIZATION

MASS TRANSFER MASS TRANSFER and

CHEMICAL REACTORS

Brief charactetristics

Scientific research at the Faculty is typically aimed at direct industrial applications.

Our scientists are among international leaders of the modern trends in many fields of

chemical engineering. Published scientific books and journal papers place the Faculty

at the spearhead of Warsaw University of Technology

as its leading intellectual and research driving force.

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Chair of Integrated Processes Engineering

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Prof. Leon Gradoń, PhD DSc

Assoc. Prof. Roman Gawroński, PhD DSc

Assoc. Prof. Arkadiusz Moskal, PhD DSc

Assoc. Prof. Tomasz Sosnowski, PhD DSc

Jakub Gac, PhD

Piotr Grzybowski, PhD

Anna Jackiewicz, PhD

Andrzej Krasiński, PhD

Agata Penconek, PhD

Rafał Przekop, PhD

Maciej Szwast, PhD

Tomasz Wąsowski, PhD

Bogumiła Wrzesińska , PhD

Designing and production of fibrous filters by melt-blown technology

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Dye

Aerosol filtration – experimental and theoretical studies

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Fibrous filters Test benches for studies of air filtration

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Modeling of deep bed filtration

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Membrane production

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Membranes for gas separation

Surface modification of membranes

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Modification (with both nanoparticles and organic compounds)

are focused on giving membranes new reactive properties,

which will lead to reduction of different forms of fouling

Coalescing filters for mist removal

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Mist removal on fiborous filters Experimental setup

(filter test system)

Time-dependent filtration efficiency

Modeling of mist filtration

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Microscale modeling (lattice Boltzmann)

• Coalescence

• Droplet-fiber interaction

• Fiber drainage

Drainage of a rough fiber:

Detachment of a droplet from a fiber:

Macroscale modeling

• Evolution of the pressure drop

and efficiency in time

Filtration and lung depsotion of diesel aerosols

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Formation of nanostructured particles

(cooperation with Hiroshima University, Japan)

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Podwers for inhalation and medical inhalers – design and testing

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Lung surfactant and bronchial mucus: physicochemical properties and mass transfer

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Langmuir-Wilhelmy balance (LWB)

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Pulsating Bubble Surfactometer

EXPERIMENTAL MODELS

Selected papers:

Sosnowski T.R. (2015). Nanosized and nanostructured particles in pulmonary drug delivery. J Nanosci. Nanotechnol. 15, 3476-3487

Penconek A., Jackiewicz A., Moskal A.(2015) Penetration of Diesel Exhaust Particles (DEPs) through fibrous filters produced using melt-

blown technology. KONA 32, 184-195

Gac J.M., Gradoń L. (2014) Lattice-Boltzmann modeling of collisions between droplets and particles. Coll. Surf. A: Physicochem. Eng.

Aspects, 441, 831-836

Gradoń L., Sosnowski T.R. (2014) Formation of particles for dry powder inhalers. Adv. Powder Technol. 25, 43-55.

Krasiński A (2014) Multilayer PP filters for the separation of O/W emulsions. Filtr. Separation 51, 22-28.

Przekop R., Gradoń L. (2014). Effect of particle and fiber size on the morphology of deposits in fibrous filters. Int.J. Numer. Met. Fluids,

76, 779–788.

Sosnowski T.R., Giżyńska K., Żywczyk Ł. (2014) Fluidization and break-up of powder particle aggregates during constant and pulsating

flow in converging nozzles. Coll. Surf. A: Physicochem. Eng. Aspects 441, 905-911.

Gac J.M., Gradoń L.(2013). A distributed parameter model for the spray drying of multicomponent droplets with a crust formation. Adv.

Powder Technol. 24, 324-330.

Jackiewicz A., Podgórski A., Gradoń L., Michalski J. (2013). Nanostructured media to improve the performance of fibrous filters. KONA

30, 244-255.

Kondej D., Sosnowski T.R. (2013) Alteration of biophysical activity of pulmonary surfactant by aluminosilicate nanoparticles. Inhalation

Toxicol. 25, 77-83.

Penconek A., Moskal A. (2013) Deposition of diesel exhaust particles from various fuels in a cast of human respiratory system under two

breathing patterns. J. Aerosol Sci. 63, 48-59.

Suhendi A., Nandiyanto A.B.D., Munir M.M., Ogi T., Gradon L., Okuyama K. (2013). Self-assembly of colloidal nanoparticles inside charged

droplets during spray-drying in the fabrication of nanostructured particles. Langmuir, 29, 3152–13161.

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Chair of Integrated Processes Engineering

Division of Chemical Reactor Dynamics and Engineering

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Prof. Jerzy Bałdyga, PhD DSc

Assoc. Prof. Wioletta Podgórska, PhD DSc

Assoc. Prof. Marek Henczka, PhD DSc

Łukasz Makowski, PhD DSc

Antoni Rożeń, PhD DSc

Agata Bąk, PhD

Magdalena Jasińska, PhD

Wojciech Orciuch, PhD

Mixing and turbulence

Mixing and turbulence – influence on reaction selectivity, precipitation, emulsion stability,

colloidal dispersion and aggregation, etc.

MODELING and EXPERIMENTS

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Flow, mixing and chemical reaction in reactors and microreactors

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Complex reactions

in microreactors

Mixing and reactions in liquid-liquid microreactors

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Deformation model

Deformation and surface mobility model; gamma = 1000 1/sDeformation and surface mobility model; gamma = 100 1/s

Supercritical fluid technology

Supercritical fluid in product engineering and CO2 sequestration

MODELING and EXPERIMENTS

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Selected papers:

Jasińska M., Bałdyga J., Hall S., Pacek A.W. (2014). Dispersion of oil droplets in rotor-stator mixers: Experimental investigations and

modeling Chem. Eng. Process.: Process Intensification 84, 45-53

Bąk A., Podgórska W. (2013). Drop breakage and coalescence in the toluene/water dispersions with dissolved surface active polymers

PVA 88% and 98% Chem. Eng. Res. Des. 91, 2142-2155

Jasińska M., Bałdyga J., Cooke M., Kowalski A. (2013). Investigations of mass transfer with chemical reactions in two-phase liquid-

liquid systems. Chem. Eng. Res. Des. 91, 2169-2178

Henczka M., Djas M., Filipek K. (2013). Optimisation of a direct plating method for the detection and enumeration of Alicyclobacillus

acidoterrestris spores. J. Microbiol. Methods 92, 1-8.

Bałdyga J., Jasińska M., Jodko K., Petelski P. (2012). Precipitation of amorphous colloidal silica from aqueous solutions-aggregation

problem. Chem. Eng. Sci. 77, 207-216

Makowski L., Orciuch W., Bałdyga J. (2012). Large eddy simulations of mixing effects on the course of precipitation process. Chem.

Eng. Sci. 77, 85-94

Orciuch W., Makowski Ł., Moskal A., Gradoń L. (2012). Evolution of the droplet size distribution during a two-phase flow through a

porous media: population balance studies. Chem. Eng. Sci. 68, 227-235.

Bąk A., Podgórska W. (2012). Investigation of drop breakage and coalescence in the liquid–liquid system with nonionic surfactants

Tween 20 and Tween 80. Chem. Eng. Sci. 74, 181-191.

Makowski L., Bałdyga J. (2011). Large Eddy Simulation of mixing effects on the course of parallel chemical reactions and comparison

with k- modeling. Chem. Eng. Process.: Process Intensification 50, 1035-1040

Bałdyga J., Makowski Ł., Orciuch W., Sauter C., Schuchmann H.P. (2008). Deagglomeration processes in high-shear devices. Chem.

Eng. Res. Des. 86, 1369-1381

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Division of Chemical Reactor Dynamics and Engineering

Division of Process Kinetics and Thermodynamics

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Prof. Eugeniusz Molga, PhD DSc

Ewa Dłuska, PhD DSc

Anna Adach, PhD

Robert Cherbański, PhD

Robert Hubacz, PhD

Michał Lewak, PhD

Piotr Machniewski, PhD

Agnieszka Markowska-Radomska, PhD

Leszek Rudniak, PhD

Safety of chemical reactors

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Hybrid (integrated) processes

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D C A

A eluent

chromatographic reactors

Multiple emulsions and micro/nanospheres – production and drug release

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Modeling of heat and mass transport processes in multiphase systems

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- gas-liquid systems (CFD application)

- VOC’s

- modeling of physical and chemical equilibria

Selected papers:

Cherbański R. (2014) Numerical study of heat and mass transfer in the microwave-assisted and conventional packed bed reactors with

an irreversible first-order endothermic chemical reaction. Chem. Eng. Processing 86, 104–115.

Falkowska M., Molga E. (2014). Nanosilver: a catalyst in enzymatic hydrolysis of starch. Polish J. Chem. Technol. 16, 111-113.

Ostaniewicz-Cydzik A.M., Pereira C. S.M., Molga E. (2014). Reaction kinetics and thermodynamic equilibrium for butyl acrylate

synthesis from n-butanol and acrylic acid. Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 53, 6647-6654.

Sołtysiak M., Molga E. (2014). Heat effects due to mixing (dilution) the mixed acid solutions-Application of neural networks to

approximate and generalize experimental data. Chem. Eng. Processing 83, 12-25.

Westerterp K.R., Lewak M., Molga E. (2014) Boundary diagrams safety criterion for liquid phase homogeneous semibatch reactors,

Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 53, 5778-5791

Biń A.K., Machniewski P.M., Wołyniec J. (2013) Modeling of ozone reaction with benzaldehyde incorporating ozone decomposition in

aqueous solutions. Ozone Sci. Eng. 35, 489-500.

Cherbański R., Rudniak L. (2013) Modelling of microwave heating of water in a monomode applicator – Influence of operating

conditions. Int. J. Thermal Sci. 74, 214-229.

Hubacz R., Ohmura N., Dłuska E. (2013). Intensification of starch processing using apparatus with Couette–Taylor flow. J. Food Proc.

Eng. 36, 774-785.

Sarkar M. Shahjahan K.A., Machniewski P., Ewans G.M. (2013). Modelling and measurement of bubble formation and growth in

electrofiltration processes. Chem. Process Eng. 34, 327-336.

Dłuska E., Markowska-Radomska A. (2012) Hierarchical micro/nanostructures of natural polymer for release process. Macromolec.

Symposia, 315, 226–232.

Molga E., Cherbański R. (2012) Hydrogen production integrated with simultaneous CO2 sequestration on fly ashes from power plants.

Chem. Eng. Technol. 35, 539–546.

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Division of Process Kinetics and Thermodynamics

Division of Biotechnology and Bioprocess Engineering

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Assoc. Prof. Tomasz Ciach, PhD DSc

Prof. Andrzej Kołtuniewicz, PhD DSc

Małgorzata Jaworska, PhD DSc

Władysław Moniuk, PhD DSc

Paweł Sobieszuk, PhD DSc

Katarzyna Dąbkowska, PhD

Beata Butruk-Raszeja, PhD

Maciej Pilarek, PhD

Application of liquid perfluorocarbons (PFCs) in biotechnology

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1. animal cell culturing in vitro:

hybrid culture systems, 3D cultures and tissue engineering

2. liquid PFCs as gas carriers in bioreactors:

mini-scale cultivation systems for bacteria

single-use systems for microalgae

high-throughput processes (robotic systems)

3. liquid PFCs as metabolite carriers in cultivation of plant

cells and tissues

intensification of biosytnhesis of plant metabolites

in situ extraction of secondary plant metabolites

Bioactive and hemocompatible surface coatings

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Bioactive coatings promoting cell growth hydrogel coatings of membranes

(hemocompatibility)

Antibacterial low-friction coatings

Biocompatible coatings of steel for medical applications

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Stents

ø 3mm

Polymeric nanofibers for tissue engineering

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- electrospinning

- solution blow spinning

Chondrocytes

on the polymeric

scaffold

Self-organizing polysacharide nanoparticles as anticancer drug carriers

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Cell encapsulation and biomimetic structures

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• Regenerative

medicine

• Drug delivery systems

Hybrid bioprocessing systems

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Feed -

cellulose

Hydrolizate + enzyme

enzyme

Vacuum pump

ethanol

Condenser

Vacuum

distillation

The bioreactor 1

(for hydrolysis)

The bioreactor 2

(for simultaneous fermentation

and distillation)

UF

Microfluidics Microbiological fuel cells

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- Gas-liquid microreactors

- Microcapillary phase separator

Selected papers:

Douglas T.E.L., Pilarek M., et al. (2014). Enrichment of chitosan hydrogels with perfluorodecalin promotes gelation and stem cell

vitality. Materials Lett. 128, 79-84.

Grunzel P., Pilarek M. et al. (2014). Mini-scale cultivation method enables expeditious plasmid production in Escherichia coli.

Biotechnol. J. 9, 128-136.

Hillig F., Pilarek M. et al. (2014). Cultivation of marine microorganisms in single-use systems. Adv. Biochem. Eng. Biotechnol. 138,

179-206

Lisman A., Butruk B., Wasiak I, Ciach T. (2014). Dextran/Albumin hydrogel sealant for Dacron® vascular prosthesis, J. Biomat. Appl.

28, 1386-1396

Pilarek M., Grabowska I., et al. (2014). Liquid perfluorochemical-supported hybrid cell culture system for proliferation of

chondrocytes on fibrous polylactide scaffolds. Bioproc. Biosyst. Eng. 37, 1707-1715.

Sobieszuk P., Ilnicki F., Pohorecki R. (2014). Contribution of liquid-and gas-side mass transfer coefficients to overall mass transfer

coefficient in Taylor flow in a microreactor. Chem. Proc. Eng. 35, 35-45.

Sykłowska-Baranek K., Pilarek M. et al. (2014). Liquid Perfluorodecalin application for in situ extraction and enhanced

naphthoquinones production in arnebia euchroma cell suspension culturea. Appl. Biochem. Biotechnol. 172, 2618-2627.

Wojasiński M., Pilarek M., Ciach T. (2014) Comparative studies of electrospinning and solution blow spinning processes for the

production of nanofibrous poly(L-lactic acid) materials for biomedical engineering. Polish J. Chem. Technol. 16, 43-50.

Butruk B., Bąbik P. et al (2013) Surface endothelialization of polyurethanes. Procedia Engineering 59, 125-132.

Kurtycz P., Karwowska E., Ciach T. et al. (2013). Biodegradable polylactide (PLA) fiber mats containing Al2O3-Ag nanopowder

prepared by electrospinning technique - antibacterial properties. Fibers and Polymers, 14, 1248-1253.

Koltuniewicz A.B. (2013). Sustainable Process Engineering - Prospects and Opportunities, DE GRUYTER (ISBN 978-3-11-030875-4)

Jaworska M. (2012) Kinetics of enzymatic deacetylation of chitosan. Cellulose 19, 363-369.

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Division of Biotechnology and Bioprocess Engineering

Division of Separation Processes

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Prof. Zbigniew Szwast, PhD DSc

Prof. Paweł Gierycz, PhD DSc

Prof. Stanisław Sieniutycz, PhD DSc

Roman Krzywda, PhD

Piotr Kuran, PhD

Artur Poświata, PhD

Mariusz Zalewski, PhD

Process optimization

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multistage processes

continuous processes processes of heat and mass transfer

chemical reactors

Example:

Tubular reactors with axial dispersion

maximization of conversion

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Solar radiation as thermal energy source in chemical and process engineering

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Absorption solar cooling systems

Solar distillation

systems

Solar gasification processes

Solar heating systems for bioprocesses

Production and modeling of CaCO3 nanocrystals obtained

in Rotating Disc Reactor (multiphase reaction)

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Covering of CaCO3 nanocrystals by natural cyclodextrin inclusion complexes with drugs

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Complex 6-Ph-O-Me-TACV-Cyclodextrin

Chaos and periodic oscillations in chemical reactors and bioreactors

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Autocatalytic reaction:

Chemical reaction

in deactivating catalyst particles:

Analysis of chaos areas for chemical reaction:

Ethanolic fermentation:

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Energy and renewable energy sources

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• Single, power generating heat engine (Curzon - Ahlborn – Novikov engine)

• Heat engines and heat pumps (static and dynamic models - continuous and discrete)

• Radiation engines powered by solar energy

• Wind energy generation processes in the atmosphere

• Continuous processes of heat and mass exchange (infinite N, for example: periodical fluidized bed dryers)

Calculation tools used:

• classical differential calculus

• the method of Lagrange multipliers for the equality constraints

• Bellman dynamic programming (forward variant)

• elements of the variational calculus

The new result for the maximum power obtained

from radiation (exergy flux of radiation):

Exergy stream of black photons = enthalpy * Carnot efficiency

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Simulation of chemical engineering problems

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• Modern simulation programs are

a powerful tool for the analysis

of industrial plant operation.

• They are used for the design of new installations and testing the existing industrial systems.

• The ongoing works use Chemcad

in a variety of newly designed installations of process engineering, for example in the purification

of exhaust gases from RDF

(Refuse Derived Fuel) combusion.

Selected papers:

Terekhova I, Chibunova E., Kumeev R., Kruchinin S., Fedotova M., Koźbiał M., Wszelaka-Rylik M., Gierycz P. (2015). Specific and

nonspecific effects of biologically active inorganic salts on inclusion complex formation of cyclodextrins with aromatic carboxylic

acids. Chem. Eng. Sci. 122, 97-103.

Wszelaka-Rylik M., Piotrowska K., Gierycz P. (2015). Simulation, aggregation and thermal analysis of nanostructured calcite obtained

in a controlled multiphase process. J. Thermal Anal. Calorimetry 119, 1323-1338.

Koźbiał M., Gierycz P. (2014). Partitioning and complexation study of bioactive tricyclic acyclovir derivative with cyclodextrins. J.

Chem. Thermodyn. 72, 23-30.

Religa P., Rajewski J., Gierycz P. Świetlik R. (2014). Supported liquid membrane system for Cr(III) separation from Cr(III)/Cr(VI)

mixtures. Water Sci. Technol. 69, 2476-2481

Religa P., Kowalik-Klimczak A., Gierycz P. (2013). Study on the behavior of nanofiltration membranes using for chromium(III) recovery

from salt mixture solution. Desalination, 315, 115-123

Sieniutycz S. (2013). An unified approach to limits on power generation and power consumption in thermo-electro-chemical systems,

Entropy 15, 650-677.

Sieniutycz S. (2013). Power yield and power consumption in thermo-electro-chemical systems – a synthesizing approach. Energy

Conversion and Management, 68, 293-304.

Wszelaka-Rylik M., Gierycz P. (2013). Isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC) study of natural cyclodextrins inclusion complexes with

drugs. J. Thermal Anal. Calorimetry 111, 2029-2035.

Sieniutycz S.(2012). Maximizing power yield in energy systems – A thermodynamic synthesis. Appl. Math.Model., 36, 2197-2212

Sieniutycz S (2012). Optimisation analysis of power limits in flow energy systems. Int. J. Simul. Process Model. 7, 168-183.

Sieniutycz S., Błesznowski M., Zieleniak A., Jewulski J. (2012). Power generation in thermochemical and electrochemical systems – A

thermodynamic theory. Int. J. Heat and Mass Transfer 55, 3984-3994.

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Division of Separation Processes