Witold Kwapinski

The University of Limerick, Ireland 01.2011 – present

SENIOR LECTURER / COURSE DIRECTOR Chemical and Biochemical Engineering B.Eng.(Hons)
Faculty of Science, Department of Chemical and Environmental Science

· Currently supervise a few PhD students (5 others successfully completed their thesis), oversees work of Post Docs from overseas who came to work under his supervision.

· Leader of six modules for under and postgraduate students.

· Supervise Final Year Projects and number of international students who came on practice into his laboratories.

· Lead a research on biomass/biowaste thermo-chemical conversions.

The University of Limerick, Ireland 07.2007 – 12.2010

SENIOR RESEARCHER Fellow / Faculty of Science, Department of Chemical and Environmental Science

· Design and optimisation of fluidise bed process of biomass to syngas production.

· Thermal treatment of biomaterial and develop porous structure of biochar and its applications.

· Thermal biomass decomposition: pyrolysis, gasification, combustion.

· Bio-oil and volatile upgrading.

· Second generation biofuels and biorefining.

The University of Manchester, U.K. 2006 – 07.2007

Marie Curie EXPERIENCED RESEARCHER Fellowship / Centre for Process Integration, School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science

· Dynamic model and transient analysis of industrial utility plant.

· Design and optimisation of process utility systems.

Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany 2001 – 2006

RESEARCH ASSISTANT / Department of Thermal Process Engineering

· Heat and mass transfer during adsorption in packed bed at different operational conditions.

· Formulated and solved a numerically two-dimensional heterogeneous non-isothermal model.

· Planning, design, controlling and conducting of chemical engineering processes (adsorption, fluidization, granulation, coating) experiments and apparatus.

· Investigated reaction network of catalytic ethane oxidation.

· Determination of detailed kinetic laws for selected catalysts and catalytically active membranes.

· Supervised and successfully accomplished projects involving different universities and industrial partners.

The Technical University of Lodz, Poland 1995 – 2001

ASSISSTANT / Faculty of Process and Environmental Engineering

· Vast teaching experience in area of chemical and process engineering.

· Membrane techniques, membrane preparations, liquid extraction processes.

· Developing experiments form laboratory to prototype evaluation.

· Theoretical and experimental conduct of extraction and separation of phenol and heavy metal ions from aqueous streams to aid the recovery process.

· Industrial project for developing infrared flowmeters device.

· Co-coordinator in research framework of sustainable development carried out by a group of specialists within the TEMPUS (IB_JEP-13301-98).

· Heat and mass transfer during adsorption in packed bed at different operational conditions.

· Formulated and solved a numerically two-dimensional heterogeneous non-isothermal model.

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