Category Archives: Year 2010 Issue 6

Anna GIETKA, Wojciech LUBIEWA-WIELEŻYŃSKI - Polish Chamber of Chemical Industry, Warsow Please cited as: CHEMIK 2010, 64, 6, xx-xx The United Nations General Assembly has passed a resolution (No. 63) declaring 2011 as the International Year of Chemistry. The celebrations will emphasize the importance of chemistry as a science. The year 2011 was chosen as it marks the 100th anniversary of the award of the Nobel Prize in chemistry to Maria Skłodowska-Curie. During the last decade, the situation...

Małgorzata TYPKO, Department of Environmental Instruments, Ministry of the Environment Please cited as: CHEMIK 2010, 64, 6, xx-xx In late 2007 the European Commission published the new draft Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on industrial emissions (IPPC) [1]. The aim of the project was to unify and consolidate valid Community legislation on industrial emissions, with a view to improve the system of industrial pollution prevention and control, and consequently to improve environmental quality...

Ewa OKOŃ-HORODYŃSKA - Chair of Economy, the Jagiellonian University, Kraków; Centre of Decision Sciences and Forecasting, Progress and Business Foundation, Andrzej M.J. SKULIMOWSKI, Laboratory of Decision Sciences, Chair of Automatic Control, AGH University of Science and Technology in Kraków; Centre of Decision Sciences and Forecasting, Progress and Business Foundation Please cite as: CHEMIK 2010, 64, 6, xx-xx Sophisticated nature of technological, social, economic or political processes inevitably entails the ability to predict them. The need to find...

Piotr GRZESIAK – Institute of Plant Protection National Research Institute, Poznan Please cite as: CHEMIK 2010, 64, 6, xx-xx At present, Poland is one of the biggest producers of sulfuric acid. In 2007 production of sulfuric acid in Poland was 2 mln T monohydrate (MH)/y, what means 2nd place in Europe and 7th place in the world [1]. Almost half of its production comes from metallurgical installations. In last decades a huge advance in production of sulfuric acid...