The Research Group focuses on the mineralogical and chemical characteristics of waste in its broadest sense. The main research focus is on waste from coal, biomass, and municipal waste processing. The particular research interest is focused on the search for and recovery of critical elements from secondary waste from thermal municipal waste treatment plants. In the research work, the team uses advanced methods to determine the chemical, mineral, and phase composition of the tested materials. Microscopic studies in reflected and transmitted light, using a scanning electric microscope, are carried out. Analyses performed using electron microprobe at the AGH-KGHM Critical Elements Laboratory (http://www.mikrosonda.agh.edu.pl/) are also of great importance. They will allow us to determine the location of the discussed elements in specific mineral phases. Additional methods, such as X-ray (XRD), X-ray fluorescence (XRF), DTA/TG thermal analysis, Raman spectroscopy, infrared spectroscopy, and chemical composition determination using ICP-MS / OS methods will also be used.
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Project manager (Principal investigator)
PhD Eng. Barbara Bielowicz, Associate Professor
Barbara Bielowicz has focused her research interests on the recovery of critical elements from waste, clean coal technologies, mainly gasification and the suitability of Polish deposits for this process, and on the use of gasification residues.
The author of several dozen publications indexed in Web of Science. Participant of 4 international projects within the International Committee for Coal and Organic Petrology. She participated in 8 national projects, of which she managed 4. For her scientific activity, she was awarded a scholarship for an outstanding young scientist awarded by the Minister of Science and Higher Education.
Member of the Society for Organic Petrology and International Committee for Coal and Organic Petrology, in which she co-leads the Characterization of Gasification Products working group.
She is also a member of the Committee on Geological Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
Her particular achievement is drawing attention to the possibility of using petrographic methods for clean energy technologies and determining the properties of post-process waste, which is extremely important for the development of clean energy, improved cooperation between the scientific community and the economy, and international cooperation.
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Members
Gabriela Kozub-Budzyń, PhD
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Jacek Misiak, PhD
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Radosław Jędrusiak, M.Sc.
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Contact
PhD Eng. Barbara Bielowicz, Associate Professor
Faculty of Geology, Geophysics and Environmental Protection
AGH University of Science and Technology
Al. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Kraków, Poland
Phone: +48 12 617 23 75, +48 885565182
E-mail: bbiel@agh.edu.pl
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