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About the Center
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Scientific and Technological Quality
Particular research achievements
The Centre has undertaken a great number of research projects, covering
a broad field of mechanical engineering, of food processing, agriculture
and management (logistics). The scientists working in the Center have
taken part in many projects granted by the "The State Committee for
Scientific Research" (KBN). Only for the last period 1999 - 2001
eight projects have been positively evaluated.
The Center has had a considerable research results and development
experience in a broad scope of science and technology. Main research activities
may be categorized into groups, as follows:
- Analysis, and investigations of processes in food industry;
- Study of thermodynamic processes;
- Mathematical modeling of processes in agriculture and
food industry for purposes of Automatic control and/or for monitoring;
- Modeling of continuous industrial processes (for example
mixing, drying);
- Devise new processing methods and design new apparatus
or re-design those in a current application, industrial tools and the
manufacturing arrangements;
- Computer (digital) control of driving systems (servomechanisms);
pneumatic drives: study of phenomena, design for industry, CAD software;
- Grippers for robots;
- PLC programming, control and applications involving
digital signal processing methods (DSP applications) for industrial
control;
- Industrial control, especially with the ANN applications;
- Measuring devices, for example for density of the in-stream
milk;
- Image processing;
- Analysis and study of machines in agriculture [1];
- Inventing new algorithms for design and composing software
packages, general algorithms for Computer Aided Control Systems Design;
- Plants protection, microbiology; for example the effect
of synthetic and natural pesticide compounds on soil micro-organisms,
pathogens and plants;
- Industrial drying control, especially with the ANN applications;
- Industrial drying plant for wood, with energy saving
control;
- Modeling of discrete processes in traffic;
- Long term stores for potatoes (industrial applications
of new energy saving control systems and algorithms);
- Materials and structures used in solar power;
- Surface processing and thermo-mechanical conditioning
of machine elements.
The role which the Centre plays in the national
and local socio-economic development may be evaluated by RTD
projects, implemented in industry and patents lastly issued. The list
-limited to the period 1998 to 2000 only - comprises 23 documented cases.
The completed projects may be categorized to:
- Monitoring and automatic control of industrial
processes;
- Analysis, and investigations of processes in food
industry to design new processing methods and to design new installations
or re-design those apparatus in current application;
- Metal surface processing;
- Industrial tools and the manufacturing arrangements.
Also, the influence of the Centre in the national dimension
may be assessed by conference we organize, periodically; these are to:
- on Polyoptimisation and Computer Aided Design,
yearly, with ca 75 participants of all academic centres in Poland with
reviewed transactions (issued as the book) of ca 50 papers each year;
- on Mixing in Industry, which we organize
in a sequence system, every few years, with about 40 participants of
all involved academic centres in Poland, with reviewed transactions
of ca 30 papers.
Quality and Volume of research/publications activity
of the Centre
The average number of publications of the Centre staff, yearly
Reviewed 44
Others 4
Monographs 8
Participation in conferences actively (with presentations), yearly
International 13
Domestic 75
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