Category Archives: Year 2015 Issue 10

Ewa Możdżer, Edward Krzywy* – Department of Soil Science, Meadow Cultivation and Environmental Chemistry, West Pomeranian University of Technology, Szczecin, Poland Please cite as: CHEMIK 2015, 69, 10, 698–705 The liquid manure produced in large volume and nutrients included in it point to the possibility of its use for fertilization purposes. According to the legal regulations in force the liquid manure cannot be introduced into soils during the period from the beginning of November till the end...

Edward KRZYWY*, Czesław WOŁOSZYK, Ewa MOŻDŻER - Department of Soil Science, Meadow Cultivation and Environmental Chemistry, Faculty of Environmental Management and Agriculture, West Pomeranian University of Technology, Szczecin, Poland Please cite as: CHEMIK 2015, 69, 10, 684–697 One of the main factors determining soil fertility and fecundity is organic and mineral fertilization. Nowadays, however, many unfavourable occurrences in the Polish fertilizers management can be observed, including:

• decrease in livestock, thus, in production and usage of natural fertilizers (manure,...

Jerzy MAŃKOWSKI, Jacek KOŁODZIEJ*, Andrzej KUBACKI, Przemysław BARANIECKI – Institute of Natural Fibres & Medicinal Plants, Poznań, Poland Please cite as: CHEMIK 2015, 69, 10, 660–665 In 2012, the Institute of Natural Fibres and Medicinal Plants together with an agricultural cooperative in Kazimierz Biskupi launched a multiyear project under the EU Life+ program “The new method of restoration of degraded land in the region of Konin Coal Mine using hemp cultivation.” Completion of the project is expected...

Arkadiusz KAMIŃSKI* – Director of Environmental Protection Department, PKN ORLEN S.A., Płock, Poland; Paweł KOZICZYŃSKI – Environmental Protection Department, PKN ORLEN S.A., Płock, Poland Please cite as: CHEMIK 2015, 69, 10, 635–638 It is easy to state that industrial activity is strictly linked with its surrounding. Direct and indirect influence can be easily noticed on economic, social and environmental levels. Every aspect mentioned above must be considered while decision making process, especially when it comes to the...

Lesław GÓRNIAK* – Industrial Chemistry Research Institute, Warsaw, Poland Please cite as: CHEMIK 2015, 69, 10, 645–646 A manager of an enterprise falling under Title IV of Environment Protection Act [2], colloquially – subject to the Seveso Directive, knows own obligations towards preventing industrial accidents. While those obligations don’t extend to any under-the-threshold entities, expectations towards such companies to undertake similar, albeit adjusted to size and risk, actions are expected [3]. The same rationale applies to the...

Wilhelm Jan TIC* – Department of Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Opole University of Technology, Opole, Poland Please cite as: CHEMIK 2015, 69, 10, 623–624 Fats are row materials being closely associated with human beings from the beginning of their existence. According to the report of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, the world production of fats reaches approximately 190 million Mg per year, wherein the largest share represent vegetable fats [1]. The management process of...

Tomasz Spietz*, Marcin Stec, Adam Tata rczuk, Lucyna Więcław -Solny – Institute for Chemical Processing of Coal, Zabrze, Poland Please cite as: CHEMIK 2015, 69, 10, 625–634 In light of the decisions made by the European Commission with regard to reduction of greenhouse gas emission, what is becoming increasingly realistic is the application of the CO2 capture technology at the existing coal-fired power units [1, 2]. One of the technologies already applied to absorb carbon dioxide is...

Martyna NOWAK* – Institute for Chemical Processing of Coal, Zabrze, Poland Please cite as: CHEMIK 2015, 69, 10, 680–683 Increase of quality demands of wastewater, which are discharged into the environment, results in the increase sewage sludge generation. Management method of sewage sludge depends on their quality, especially amount of hazardous substances and legal restrictions connected to sewage sludge utilization [1]. There are different ways of sewage sludge management, i.a.: thermal processing, utilization in agriculture, disposal and...

Bożena MROWIEC*, Natalia KOSUT – Institute of Environmental Protection and Engineering, University of Bielsko-Biala, Bielsko-Biała, Poland Please cite as: CHEMIK 2015, 69, 10, 654–659 Nanoscale particles have a different physical and chemical properties than conventional micro-particles. The metal which is produced achieved their intended objective by the man at the nano scale is silver. Nanoparticles in which one of the dimensions does not exceed 100 nm, can be classified into a group of colloids. It should be...

Anna KRÓL*, Kamila MIZERNA – Department of Environmental Engineering, Opole University of Technology, Opole, Poland Please cite as: CHEMIK 2015, 69, 10, 670–673 Mineral resources extraction and its processing in a production process is indispensably entailed with generation of waste. Among the most diverse groups of industrial waste are metallurgical wastes. They are formed as a by-product of various technological processes and characterize by a heterogeneous structure and chemical composition. Formerly, metallurgical waste was not subjected to...