DEPARTMENT OF OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY ENGINEERING K91
Head: Prof. Dr. Grzegorz Wielgosiński
Department members
RESEARCH AREA
- Occupational health and safety management and process safety management
- Dynamic risk management in process industries
- Safety culture
- Risk analysis and assessment of the unit processes, where the explosive mixture is constantly or periodically present - ATEX
- Modeling and optimization of complex techno-economical systems
- Methodology and tools for process and explosion risk assessment
- Pyrolysis and gasification of the biomass and solid waste
- Study of the dangerous chemical reactivity
- Synthesis gas conversion process
- Dangerous materials, especially with high energy properties
- Application of photocatalytic processes in hydrogen production or in decomposition of toxic and environmentally harmful substances
MAIN REASERCH EQUIPMENT
- Differential scanning calorimeter DSC Sirius 3500 (Netsch)
- Thermal Screening Unit TSu (Hell)
- Reaction calorimeter APTAC 264 (Netsch)
- Gas chromatographs GC Clarus 690 PE (Perkin Elmer)
MAIN SPECIALIST SOFTWARE
- PHAST
- SAFETI
- PHAST 3D Explosion
- AWZ, exAWZ, exSysAWZ
- CHETAH ®. Version 10.0
OFFER FOR THE INDUSTRY
- Risk analysis and assessment in process industries
- HAZOP, HAZID, PHA, FMEA, FTA, ETA, BTA, LOPA, QRA, F&EI analysis
- Documentation preparation for the upper-tier establishments (UTE) and lower tier establishments (LTE)- as an result of an implementation of the SEVESO III directive
- Modeling of toxic chemical cloud dispersion, fires, explosions and domino effects of the industrial equipment with an use of the specialist PHAST, SAFETI, PHAST 3D software
- Calculation of major industrial failures impact zones range accordingly to the Ordinance of the Minister of the Environment from 3 January 2018 regarding the method of determination of the safety distance
- Explosion protection document, explosion risk assessment and explosion hazard assessment
- Study of thermal stability of the substance with an use of APTAC, TSU, DSC
- Study of photocatalytic hydrogen production and photocatalytic decomposition of toxic and environmentally harmful substances processes
- Study of chemical reaction in normal operating conditions and in case of loss of the thermal control over the reaction
- Environmental engineering and high Energy material expertise
- Process safety management trainings
- Postgraduate studies in Industrial Processes Safety
CONTACT
Lodz University of Technology
Faculty of Process and Environmental Engineering
Department of Occupational Safety Engineering
Wolczanska 213
93-005 Lodz
Poland
tel.: +48 42 631-37-21
e-mail: grzegorz.wielgosinski@p.lodz.pl