The Faculty employs 47 professors and associate professors and 105 PhDs. The research work carried out at the Faculty covers the following fields: air, water and soil protection, environmental management, heat engineering in the building industry and municipal management, protection against environmental contamination, identification and spread of contaminants, application of membrane techniques in wastewater and water treatment, use of microbiological processes in environmental protection and engineering, optimization of installations and facilities in water supply stations and wastewater treatment plants, operation and diagnostics of power machinery and facilities, investigation of complex processes of heat flow, use of renewable sources of energy; gas, heat and nuclear power engineering, heat engineering and industrial air-conditioning, construction and operation of combustion engines, design of machinery and facilities for waste utilization, design of machinery and facilities for chemical processes.
The staff of the Faculty are members and sit on the boards of numerous European scientific organizations, such as European Research Community on Flow, Turbulence and Combustion, European Membrane Society, European Biotechnology Federation.
In recent years, three units of the Faculty have been awarded with the title of the Centre of Excellence: DEMETER , ENER-INDOOR, OPTI-ENERGY.
Furthermore, the Faculty cooperates with Russian Academy of Science, American Industrial Hygiene Association and participates in the framework programs of the European Commission. It has also carried out collaborative research projects with other foreign centers: Polish-German agreement on cooperation (No-Border University), IEA Cooperation Agreement in Paris, cooperation with European Research Community on Flow, Turbulence and Combustion ERCOFACT, Marie Curie research project, EUREKA program dealing with the development of technologies for fat waste recycling in an MSP for energy purposes.
Other forms of international co-operation include permanent contacts with a number of foreign research centers based at universities in Berlin, Dresden, Stuttgart, Clausthal, Zittau, Halle, Wittenberg, Magdeburgh, Bohum, Merserburgh, Munich, Gent, Lyngby, Orlando, Ijmuiden, Cottbus, Erlangen, Wessex, Florence, Athens, Kassel, Louvain, Coleraine, Brunnel, Vienna, Ostrava, Prague, Brno, Belg, Glasgow, Sophia. The co-operation involves collaborative research, student and staff exchange programs and participation in conferences.
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