Environmental Process Engineering Laboratory

Department number: 
6
Head of Department: 
Církva Vladimír
Centre: 
Suchdol
Contacts
Address: 
Rozvojová 135/1, 165 02 Praha-Lysolaje, Česká republika
Email: 
cirkvaaticpf [dot] cas [dot] cz
Phone: 
+420 220 390 132
Fax: 
+420 220 920 661

Overview for Environmental Process Engineering Laboratory (EPEL)

EPEL was founded with intention to concentrate most of the sustainable technologies development at ICPF, e.g. total recycling of PET, recycling of luminophors from TV sets, and verification of thermal desorption technology using microwave radiation. The applied research (gasification of biomass in fluidized bed, synthetic gas production, high temperature gas cleaning, and phytoextraction of heavy metals with consequent energetic utilization of biomass) is balanced with basic research (microwave chemistry, photochemistry, and photocatalysis). This combination makes possible successful cooperation with industry.

Fields of Research:

  • Microwaves in photochemistry and photocatalysis
  • Advanced processes for gasification, gas cleaning and hydrogen production
  • Advanced concepts and process schemes for CO2 free fluidized and entrained bed co-gasification of coals
  • Development of process for disposal of plastic waste using plasma pyrolysis technology and option for energy recovery
  • Moving bed gasification of biomass and biomass pellets and producer gas cleaning
   

Applied Research:

  • Brownfields - Source of renewable energy (BROZEN)
  • Development and verification of thermal desorption technology using microwave radiation
  • Method for the chemical depolymerization of waste polyethylene terephthalate (PET)
  • Complex recycling of compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) and removal of toxic mercury contained in input material
  • Process for preparing hydrogen by partial oxidation of high-boiling hydrocarbon mixtures and biomass and apparatus for making the same
  • Research and development of wet precipitators PM for medium-power boilers burning renewable biomass
   

Annual Reports for Environmental Process Engineering Laboratory

History of the Research Projects

Workers: 

Head of Department
Scientist

Deputy Head of Department
Scientist

Researcher emeritus

Senior Scientist

Scientist

Postdoctoral Fellow

Ph.D. Student

Lab Technician