Institute of Chemical Engineering of the Polish Acadamy of Sciences

Separation of gaseous mixtures using adsorption and membrane methods
Balance and kinetics of gas adsorption on solid and liquid adsorbers
Utilisation of methane releasing in the process of hard coal extraction
Reducing greenhouse gases emission using adsorption methods and membrane methods
Desulphurization of industrial waste gases
Modelling of multicomponent balances gas-liquid, liquid-solid body and gas-liquid-solid body
Crystallization

The Hiden Isochema gravimetric analyzer for researching balance and kinetics of sorption (including multicomponent gaseous mixtures)
Mass spectrometer
Installation for permeation process testing
Experimental installation of PSA
Experimental installation for crystallization process testing of QVF company
Laser diffraction particles size Mastersizer 2000, the scope of particles sizes 0.02–2000 μm, analysis in suspended solids and emulsions
Biolar B Microscope working together with a camera Fire-i-400 and IRIS LABORATORIUM program (a professional version) for a digital recording, archiving and analysis of microscopic images
Exhaust gas content analyser GA40TPlus; measurement O2, CO, SO2, NO, NO2, CO2, CH4

The Silesian Centre for Advanced Technologies
European Technology Platform on Zero-Emission Fossil Fuel Power Plants
IEA Greenhouse Gas R&D Programme
Innovative Silesian Cluster of Pure Coal Technologies
Environmental Technology Verification (EU-ETV)
EUROGIA+
International Scientific Thematic Network for Environmental Technologies ENVITECH-NET
Knowledge and Innovation Community (KIC)

Elaborating on the concept of intensification of the process of burning nickel catalyst carrier in a tunnel furnace.
Elaboration and experimental verification of the model of cell convection during the process of adsorption with a chemical reaction.
Elaborating on a mathematical model of separation and purification of gas mixtures with the application of pressure swing adsorption and using this model for the analysis of a number of practically important problems of separation.
Elaborating (together with IMN in Gliwice) on a national variant of the method of wet-limestone desulphurisation of exhaust gases; implementation of this variant in five industrial plants.
Elaborating (together with ER Rybnik) on a variant of a dry method with wetting of exhaust gas desulphurisation (a patent no. PL 190768); implementation of this variant in three blocks in Rybnik Power Plant.
Participation in elaboration of a special report IPPC Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage (Peace Nobel Prize in 2007 for IPPC).
Development of a hybrid adsorptive-membrane process for the efficient separation of carbon dioxide from flue gases.