Technologies Helping Out Natural Management of Organic and Mineral Waste Competence Center Środowisko

Competence Center: Technologies Helping Out Natural Management of Organic and Mineral Waste (TWPZO) in Department of Agricultural and Environmental Chemistry in Faculty of Agriculture and Economics of University of Agriculture in Kraków.

Information about TWPZO Competence Center

Many scientific institutions and enterprises focused of waste management, including organic and mineral waste natural management, are engaged in the centre of competence. Thanks to a cooperation between numerous entities from the world of science and business the Competence Centre – TWPZO possess an essential experience in conducting of research and development works and in commercialization of research results.

TWPZO Competence Centre partners (from the circle of shareholders in consortium IATI)

1. AGH, Faculty of Mining Surveying and Environmental Engineering, Department of Shaping and Protection of Environment
2. University of Environmental and Life Sciences in Wrocław, Poznań, Lublin
3. Cracow University of Technology, Environmental Engineering Faculty, Chemical Engineering and Technology Faculty
4. University of Zielona Góra, Environmental Engineering Institute
5. Skotan joint-stock company
6. Power station GDF SUEZ Energia Polska joint-stock company in Połaniec
7. Municipal and industrial sewage treatment plants
8. Waste composting in Kraków, Katowice

Special interest spheres of TWPZO Competence Centre

TWPZO Competence Centre focuses its R&D, industrial and introductory activity in spheres like: natural waste and sediment management, organic and mineral waste processing, preparing solutions to introduce product basing on waste for distribution, methane fermentation, processes microbiology, biotechnology, remediation, reclamation, municipal sludge works, water and wastewater management, individual systems of sewage treatment, municipal sewage sediments issues, cataloguing of natural elements of environment.

Crucial competences of TWPZO Competence Centre

TWPZO Centre has both competences and experience in areas of:

• planning of works and scientific-introductory research, technological solutions, implementation for enterprises,
• management in projects, supervising and execution of scientific research, including experiments and in a range of work in laboratories and pattern
• expert and scientific opinions in a range of waste production issues and its management, landscaping, cataloguing of environmental assets
• building authorization and construction and material solutions
• education in range of shaping and protection of environment and its surrounding, agronomy, technological processes of waste natural management,

TWPZO Competence Centre possess scientific achievements and practical experience in range of shaping and protection of agricultural environment, municipal sludge management, organic waste processing technology, sewage treatment technology including house sewage works, sewage sediments management, environmental assets cataloguing.

Main thematic area: TA13 – Environment

Additional areas:

TA1 – Industrial biotechnologies

TA10 – Green economy

TA8 – Assets

Proposed research areas:

• management and processing of organic waste from different branches of industry including: municipal sewage sediments, gastronomic waste, natural and chicory coffee grounds, paper industry waste, water treatment sediments, industrial production minerals,
• management and processing of bottom sediments from reservoirs, biomass furnace ash, ashes from burning of bituminous and lignite coal, management of post-carbide, post-sodium waste and other mineral waste

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