Instytut Energetyki EN

On November 21, 2018, the 5th International Scientific Conference on Decisions in emergency situations took place. The conference was organized by Tadeusz Kościuszko Land Forces Military Academy in Wrocław and one of five co-organizers - the Institute of Power Engineering. Among the members of the Scientific and Program Committee of the Conference were Tomasz Gałka (PhD), director of the Institute of Power Engineering and prof. Jacek Wańkowicz, director's scientific advisor.

On October 31, 2018, the next meeting of the European Energy Research Alliance EERA was held in Brussels. The meeting was attended by members of EERA Executive Committee representing the largest research centers in the area of energy from 15 European countries. The Institute of Power Engineering, represented by Andrzej Sławiński (PhD), deputy director of IEn for cooperation and development.

Agnieszka Żurawska (PhD), researcher from IEn's Department of Hightemperature Electrochemical Processes (CPE), won first place in the competition for the best presentation regarding new material solutions for stacks of SOC electrochemical cells during the annual workshop Young Ceramists Network (YCN) European Cermic Society (ECerS).

On 18-21 of October in Gliwice there was held the conference on Contemporary Problems in Thermal Engineering (CPOTE 2018). Jakub Kupecki (PhD) (CPE) took part in it and presented two papers on CPE's research related to improving the performance of systems with SOFCs through the use of refrigeration systems for the recovery of depleted fuel from exhaust gases of fuel cell stacks and analysis of the efficiency of power-to-gas installations with SOE cell.