Department of Heat and Mass Transfer Processes Head: Professor Ireneusz Zbicinski Members of staff : dr inz. Janusz Adamiec mgr inz. Zdzislaw Bartczak dr inz. Krzysztof Ciesielski dr inz. Andrzej Doniec dr inz. Janusz Grochowski mgr Joanna Janczyk dr inz. Ryszard Krauze dr inz. Jozef Kasprzycki dr inz. Ewa Mitura Prof. dr. hab. Zdzislaw Pakowski dr inz. Grzegorz Rogacki dr inz. Jan Stawczyk Prof. dr hab. Czeslaw Strumillo dr inz. Pawel Warzyniak dr. inz. Romuald Zylla Research areas Drying theory Modelling and optimization of selected dryer types Technology of drying of bio-materials Drying equilibrium and kinetics Degradation of dried materials Supercritical and convective drying of gels Mass transfer in capillary materials in solid-liquid extraction process Supercritical water oxidation of organic wastes Applicability of pulse combustors Applications of neural networks in process modelling Biomaterials of a new generation The Department has laboratories equipped among others with: pilot-scale dryers freeze dryers IR gas analyzer autoclaves up to 50 MPa visit on this page since 23th November 96 rjz 29.10.96