The Large Research Infrastructure ENREGAT offers services and access to facilities and equipment that enable research in the following areas:

Waste combustion

  • combustion tests - combustion of waste, fuels, and refuse-derived fuels,
  • environmental impact assessment of combustion processes,
  • evaluation of the energy efficiency of combustion processes and design of measures to increase it,
  • evaluation of emissions produced from combustion processes, design of measures to reduce emission production,
  • determination of physical and chemical parameters of waste and fuels,
  • material utilization of slag and fly ash from combustion processes.

Optimization of energy and material utilization of waste using thermochemical processes

  • pyrolysis and catalytic pyrolysis of waste (polymers, biomass, and other solid organic hazardous wastes) in a laboratory batch or semi-continuous reactor, microwave reactor, or continuous screw reactor; consultancy on process scale-up,
  • catalytic cracking and reforming of hydrocarbons for the purpose of synthesis gas refining,
  • research on the possibilities of utilizing pyrolysis products (gaseous, liquid, and solid).

Anaerobic digestion

  • conversion of biowaste (e.g., agricultural and food biowaste, organic fraction of municipal solid waste) into biogas and digestate by dry or wet fermentation in a (semi-)continuous mode,
  • application of applied microbiology for the pretreatment of raw materials for lignocellulose degradation,
  • physical modeling, control, and process scale-up.

Technologies for gas treatment

  • reduction of greenhouse gas (N2O) emissions using catalysis and photocatalysis,
  • photocatalytic reduction of CO2 into useful products (CH4, methanol),
  • hydrogen production by photocatalytic water splitting,
  • reduction of emissions of other pollutants (NOx, VOCs, NH3, CO, SO2, PAHs, etc.) using catalysis, photocatalysis, and adsorption,
  • material design - tailor-made preparation and modification of materials in desired forms (grains, thin films, monoliths, foams) by conventional and unconventional methods for catalysis, photocatalysis, and adsorption,
  • catalytic cracking and reforming of hydrocarbons for the production of synthesis gas and hydrogen,
  • mutual correlation of physicochemical properties of materials and their efficiency in pollutant removal, stability, and selectivity,
  • physical and mathematical modeling from micro- to macro-scale, i.e., material structure, mechanism and kinetics of ongoing reactions, mass and heat transport, equipment.