Faculty of Chemistry - International cooperation

Members of the Department of Inorganic, Analytical Chemistry and Electrochemistry cooperate with both national and international partners in terms of transferring research results into the industry.

The scope of international cooperation includes the following activities:

• Participation in “ENFLUID” project – part of the Polish-Norwegian Research Cooperation Programme of the National Centre for Research and Development; the department takes part in developing membrane-based technology for treatment of hydraulic fracturing flowbacks;

• Research collaboration with MEGA a.s. and MemBrain s.r.o. companies from Czech Republic;  investigation of novel intermembrane spacers and application of electrodialysis in drinking water;

• Participation in “ZEROBRINE” project under the Horizon 2020 programme in cooperation with partners from 12 EU countries (Topic: Systemic, eco-innovative approaches for the circular economy: large-scale demonstration projects). The project is coordinated by TU Delft and the task of our department is to design and deploy  a pilot plant to produce concentrated brine from coal mine water using membrane processes.

Research cooperation of the Department of Chemical Engineering and Process Design includes collaboration with few international universities and research institutes, such as Delft University of Technology and University of Freiberg.

The scope of cooperation with the industry includes:

• Process simulation, optimization, integration and design;

• Apparatus selection and design;

• Measurement of pollutants emission;

• Emission abatement techniques, in particular the emission of PM (dust);

• Wet limestone and ammonia, flue gases desulphurization technology;

• Wet soda, flue gases cleaning technology;

• Semi-dry and dry flue gases cleaning technology;

• Technology denitrification SNCR and SCR;

• Purification of flue gases from waste incineration plants;

• Gasification and thermal decomposition (pyrolysis) waste, wood and waste water deposit;

• Enzymatic sugar coupling (project ERA-NET-IB 2).

Department of Physical Chemistry and Technology of Polymers has developed cooperation with industrial partners in various fields of study, including:

• Preparation of MSc theses by students;

• Development of new products and processes;

• Measurement of specific properties of industrial products;

• Application for external funds.