Category Archives: Year 2015 Issue 11

Joanna CZARNOCKA*, Małgorzata ODZIEMKOWSKA – Automotive Industry Institute, Warsaw,Poland Please cite as: CHEMIK 2015, 69, 11, 771–776 Assessment of the quality of engine fuels at each distribution andstorage stage is vital for an appropriate use of transport means andenvironmental protection. As a result of various factors, stored fuelundergoes degradation process, which results in deterioration of itsquality. Plenty of different theories describe the mechanism of oxidationof petroleum products. One of them was formulated by Backstrom [1].It assumes that...

Jolanta TUREK–SZYTOW* – Laboratory od Environmental Biotechnology, Biotechnology Centre,Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland Please cite as: CHEMIK 2015, 69, 11, 777–782 The Centre for Biotechnology of the Silesian University ofTechnology conducts research project FILOMATA with studentsof the secondary school. The funding was obtained under theprogramme of the Minister of Science and Higher Education“Universities of Young Inventors”.The studies have shown stimulating effect of calcium peroxide(CaO2) on change of physicochemical and biological parameters ofsoil contaminated with used engine...

Paweł BUKREJEWSKI*, Marta SKOLNIAK, Dorota WARDZIŃSKA – Oil Products and BiofuelsLaboratory, Automotive Industry Institute, Warsaw, Poland Please cite as: CHEMIK 2015, 69, 11, 759–770 Fuels should be of high quality and stability. In order to ensurean adequate fuel quality, the legal regulations resulting from theprovisions of the Directive 98/70/EC of the European Parliament andof the Council of 13th October 1998 relating to the quality of gasolineand diesel fuels were introduced. Poland, like other EU MemberStates, introduced a...

Marlena OWCZUK*, Magdalena ROGULSKA, Dorota BOGUMIŁ – Automotive Industry Institute, Warsaw, Poland; Krzysztof BIERNAT – Automotive Industry Institute, Warsaw, Poland; Institute for Ecology and Bioethics of Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University, Warsaw, Poland Please cite as: CHEMIK 2015, 69, 11, 749–758 One of the priorities of the European Union is to strengthen the use of raw materials of biological origin in various industrial sectors, aimed at growth and economic recovery of countries [1]. For this purpose different kinds...