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Accreditation

The Institute's Laboratory Group has been accredited since 1996. The first accreditation certificate of the research laboratory No. L 81/1/96 was issued by the Polish Centre for Testing and Certification, since 2001 the accreditation process in the Institute's Laboratory Group has been conducted by the Polish Centre for Accreditation. The Institute's Laboratory Group has had and still has the Accreditation Certificate No. AB 081 confirming compliance with the requirements of the standard: first PN-EN ISO/IEC 17025:2001, since 2006 PN-EN ISO/ IEC 17025:2005, and currently PN-EN ISO/ IEC 17025:2018-02.

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Contact to the Laboratory Team
phone. +48 32 621 63 00 email: sstelmach@itpe.pl

Head of the Laboratory Team

phone. +48 32 621 62 25 email: tkordas@itpe.pl

Deputy Head of the Laboratory Team, Quality Manager

phone. +48 32 621 62 34 email: mmastalerz@itpe.pl

Technical Manager

phone. +48 32 621 62 12 email: ngiesa@itpe.pl

Deputy Manager for Quality and Technical Affairs

Analytical Chemistry Laboratory

The laboratory performs tests of:

  • solid fuels including:
    • technical analysis (content of total moisture, transient moisture, moisture in the analytical sample, ash and volatile parts, determination of combustion heat and calculation of calorific value),
    • chemical analysis (content of carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, total, ash and combustible sulfur, chlorine, fluorine, mercury and content of elements in ash in terms of oxides, content of elements in fuel from calculations, trace elements),
    • determination of physicochemical properties (characteristic ash melting temperatures, grain composition using sieve analysis method),
    • analysis of coking properties of coal, i.e. sintering ability using the Rogi method, free swelling index, dilatometric parameters,
    • determination of CO2 emission index (We)
  • solid biomass, waste and solid secondary fuels used for energy purposes, including:
    • technical analysis (content of total moisture, moisture in the analytical sample, ash and volatile parts, determination of combustion heat and calculation of calorific value),
    • chemical analysis (content of carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, total, ash and combustible sulfur, chlorine, mercury, content of biomass and non-biomass (mass share) and content of elements in ash from solid biomass, waste and solid secondary fuels in terms of oxides, content of elements in solid biomass, waste and solid secondary fuels, content of trace elements in solid biomass),
    • determination of physicochemical properties (characteristic ash melting temperatures, mechanical strength of biomass pellets),
    • determination of CO2 emission factor (We).
  • combustion waste including: determination of the content of total moisture and in the analytical sample, ash, total carbon, mercury, ignition losses, content of elements in ash from combustion waste in terms of oxides, content of elements in combustion waste, content of trace elements in combustion waste,
  • liquid fuels (light fuel oil, heavy fuel oil, mazut, tar) including determination of combustion heat and calculation of calorific value,
  • testing of physicochemical, adsorption and mechanical properties of activated carbons including: grain composition by sieve analysis, determination of methylene number, iodine adsorption number, ash content, water content, mechanical strength, bulk density,
  • charcoal and charcoal briquettes including determination of total moisture content, volatile matter, ash, bound carbon,
  • mechanical and automatic devices for sampling hard coal and solid biomass including determination of accuracy collection, preparation and analysis of samples and loading of the sampling system,
  • coal-based products (coke tar, benzene, coke-chemical oils) including density determinations,
  • gaseous fuels: coke oven gas,
    • determination of the content of gas components,
    • calculation of calorific values ​​based on composition (density, combustion heat, calorific value, Wobbe index),
  • samples of exhaust gases collected on filters and sorption tubes, including:
    • determination of chemical composition (dust content, organic pollutants),
  • solid fuels: brown coal including determination of water content,
  • other petroleum products: – fuel oil including determination of physicochemical properties, i.e. water and elemental composition (carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, sulfur content),

The tests are performed in accordance with applicable Polish and international standards and the developed Technical Procedures.

All parameters obtained from calculations on the basis of parameters covered by the scope of accreditation will be treated as activities covered by the management system according to PN-EN ISO/IEC 17025:2018-02. Examples of the above-mentioned parameters are: oxygen content, alkalinity index, oxidation index, slagging and slagging index, Cfix, etc.

Kontakt
phone: +48 32 621 62 38 email: emisztal@itpe.pl

HEAD FOR THE LABORATORY OF ANALYTIC CHEMISTRY

phone. +48 32 621 62 21 email: bjagustyn@itpe.pl

Deputy Head of the Analytical Chemistry Laboratory

Laboratory of Combustion Technology and Energy

The laboratory performs:

  • energy and emission tests of heating devices for a specific type of fuel, determining the thermal power, energy efficiency, concentrations in exhaust gases: CO2, CO, NOx, SO2, OGC, dust, organic pollutants and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (performed in the Analytical Chemistry Laboratory),
  • safety tests of central heating boilers for solid fuels,
  • sampling of solid fuels (hard coal, brown coal, coke, biomass, solid secondary fuels) and combustion waste,
  • assessment of solid fuels, including smokeless fuels for individual heating,
  • measurements of dust,, CO2, CO,  NOx,  SO2 concentrations in exhaust gases,
  • tests of: pellet-fired space heaters, solid fuel fireplace inserts, solid fuel space heaters and residential solid fuel-burning appliances.

Tests are performed in accordance with applicable Polish and international standards and developed Technical Procedures.

Presentation of conformity assessment within the framework of the notified body's activities.

Kontakt
phone. +48 32 621 63 31 email: kmatuszek@itpe.pl

Kierownik Laboratorium

phone. +48 32 621 63 16 email: phrycko@itpe.pl

Deputy Head of the Laboratory

Coking Technology Laboratory

The laboratory performs tests:

  • formed refractory products (silica, aluminosilicate) in the scope of:
    • determination of physicochemical properties, including: true and apparent density, open and total porosity and water absorption,
    • mechanical and thermomechanical properties, such as: compressive strength at ambient temperature, fire resistance under load.
  • unformed refractory products in the field of:
    • determining the grain composition by sieve analysis.
  • solid fuels in the scope of:
    • petrographic analysis of hard coal and anthracite (vitrinite reflectivity and composition of maceral groups – content of vitrinite, liptinite, inertinite and mineral matter),
    • marking the indicator against CO2 (CRI) and strength after reaction (CSR) of coke using the Nippon-Steel Corporation method.
  • charcoal and charcoal briquettes, including the determination of the content of unacceptable contaminants.

Tests are performed in accordance with applicable Polish, European and international standards.

Kontakt
phone. +48 32 621 62 44 email: bmertas@itpe.pl

Laboratory Manager

phone. +48 32 621 62 41 email: mwojtaszek@itpe.pl

Deputy Head of the Laboratory