DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
Head of department: Prof. Ireneusz Zbiciński, PhD, DSc.
RESEARCH AREAS:
• Modern drying techniques;
• Supercritical drying;
• Supercritical extraction;
• Biomedical engineering;
• Microencapsulation;
• Life Cycle Assessment analysis
• Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD);
• Sustainable development in civil engineering;
• Solar energy and daylighting;
• Building performance simulation;
• Indoor environment quality;
• Application of membrane processes in environmental engineering;
• Pervaporation in mixture separation processes (dehydration, concentration, desalination);
• Fire engineering;
• Smoke control systems;
• Fire detection and extinguishing systems;
• Emergency ventilation systems for potentially explosive rooms;
• Fire safety and effectiveness of fire protection systems in buildings.
SCIENTIFIC AND RESEARCH OFFER FOR INDUSTRY AND OTHER INSTITUTIONS:
• Determination of water activity, equilibrium moisture content of raw materials in food, pharmaceutical, biotechnological and cosmetic technology (determination of product shel life);
• Advanced experimental analysis of spray drying process;
• Energy inventory of the industrial installations;
• Computer simulations based on CFD technique in lab and industrial scale;
• Extraction in supercritical conditions;
• Application of "Rotating Packed Beds" for research and industry;
• Kinetics of the release of a biologically active agent (drug) from biomaterials;
• Mechanical testing of biomaterials;
• Analysis in the field of building fire safety systems and conditions for evacuating people in the event of a fire;
• Simulation analyses of buildings and systems;
• Experimental investigation of building-integrated photovoltaics;
• Experimental investigation of building materials on a real and laboratory scale;
• Designing of supply and exhaust ventilation systems;
• Determination of environmental load (carbon footprint) based on LCA analysis for materials, products, and services.
PROJECTS IMPLEMENTED FOR COMPANIES:
• Spray Drying a Solution Containing Two Different Materials, Cabbot Corp., USA, 2001;
• Optimisation of the Spray-Drying-Process, Henkel AG & CoKGaA, Germany, 2008;
• Optimal Air Cooling of Atex Areas in Spray Drying Tower and Determination of Discrete Phase Flow in Spray Area, Henkel AG & CoKGaA, Germany, 2008-2009;
• Model of Air, Energy Flow and Dust Explosion Process in Counter-Curent Spray Drying Tower, Henkel AG & CoKGaA, Germany, 2010;
• Optimisation of process parameters for product quality improvement in the counter-current spray dryer, Procter&Gamble, UK, 2017-2018;
• Development of graphen oxide drying method, Azoty-Tarnów, Poland, 2017-2018;
• Waste energy retrieval with chemical heat pump, Chemat, Poland, 2018.
6-year research project for International Fine Particle Research Institute (IFPRI), UK/USA, 1998-2003.
CONTACT
Lodz University of Technology
Faculty of Process and Environmental Engineering
Department of Environmental Engineering
213 Wólczanska str.
93-005 Lodz
Poland
tel.: (48-42) 631-37-73
fax: (48-42) 631-39-82
e-mail: ireneusz.zbicinski@p.lodz.pl