ENREGAT offers services and access to the core facilities and equipment enabling research in the following areas:
Waste incineration
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combustion tests - incineration of waste, fuels and refuse derived fuels,
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evaluation of environmental impacts of combustion processes,
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evaluation of energy efficiency of combustion processes and proposal of measures for its increase,
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evaluation of produced emissions from combustion processes, proposal of measures reducing emissions production,
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determination of physical and chemical parameters of waste and fuels,
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material utilization of slag and fly ash from combustion processes.
Optimization of energy and materials waste recovery by thermochemical processes
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pyrolysis and catalytic pyrolysis of waste (polymers, biomass, and other solid organic hazardous waste) in laboratory batch or semi-batch reactor, microwave reactor or continuous screw reactor; consulting on the scale up of the process,
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catalytic cracking and reforming of hydrocarbons with the purpose of syngas refinement,
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research of the possibilities of pyrolysis products (gaseous, liquid and solid) utilization.
Anaerobic digestion
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conversion of biowaste (e.g. agricultural and food biowaste, organic fraction of municipal solid waste) to biogas and digestate by dry or wetdigestion in (semi) continuous regime,
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use of applied microbiology to perform the pre-treatment of raw material for lignocellulose degradation,
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physical modelling, process controlling and scale up.
Technologies for gas treatment
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reduction of greenhouse gases (N2O) emission by catalysis and photocatalysis,
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photocatalytic reduction of CO2 to useful products (CH4, methanol),
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hydrogen generation by photocatalytic water splitting,
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abatement of other pollutants (NOx, VOCs, NH3, CO, SO2, PAH, etc.) by catalysis, photocatalysis and adsorption,
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material design - tailored preparation and modification of the materials in desired forms (grains, thin films, monoliths, foams) by conventional and unconventional methods for catalysis, photocatalysis and adsorption,
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catalytic cracking and reforming of hydrocarbons with the purpose of the syngas and hydrogen production,
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mutual correlation of the physico-chemical properties of materials and their efficiency for pollutant removal, stability and selectivity,
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physical and mathematical modelling from micro- to macro scale, i.e. structure, mechanisms and kinetics, transport phenomena, equipment.