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dr.ir. A.K. Pozarlik (Artur)

Associate Professor / Programme Director EngD Energy & Process Technology

About Me

I am a Programme Director of the Engineering Doctorate (EngD) Energy & Process Technology and an associate professor in the Department of Thermal and Fluid Engineering. I am responsible for the research line on Energy Efficient Processes, focusing on multidisciplinary and inter-sectoral investigations toward the optimized use of renewable energy.  I received my Ph.D. in December 2010 at the University of Twente on the work “Vibro-acoustical instabilities induced by combustion dynamics in gas turbine combustors”.

Expertise

Engineering & Materials Science
Carbonization
Chilling
Combustors
Computational Fluid Dynamics
Evaporation
Gas Turbines
Spray Drying
Physics & Astronomy
Sprayers

Research

I am involved in the research on the intensification of thermal processes via development of energy efficient novel power systems, engines, reactors and processes. The main focus is placed on multicomponent and multiphase flows, liquid atomization, droplets evaporation and drying, combustion, supercritical fluids, heat transfer and fluid dynamics. Renewable processes and transition to the future technologies are of prime interest. 

Publications

Recent
Ramanathan, S. (2023). Towards Optimization of Radial Multi-Zone Dryer (RMD). [EngD Thesis, University of Twente]. University of Twente.
Louwes, A. C. (2023). On the fast pyrolysis of torrefied woody biomass. [PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT, University of Twente]. University of Twente. https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036558914
Urbanowska, A., Niedzwiecki, Ł., Wnukowski, M., Aragón-Briceño, C. I., Kabsch-Korbutowicz, M., Baranowski, M., Czerep, M., Seruga, P., Pawlak-Kruczek, H. , Bramer, E. , Brem, G. , & Pozarlik, A. K. (2023). Recovery of chemical energy from retentates from cascade membrane filtration of hydrothermal carbonisation effluent. Energy Journal, 284, Article 128524. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2023.128524
Pawlak-Kruczek, H., Urbanowska, A., Niedzwiecki, Ł., Czerep, M., Baranowski, M., Aragón-Briceño, C. I., Kabsch-Korbutowicz, M., Arora, A., Seruga, P., Wnukowski, M., Mularski, J. , Bramer, E. , Brem, G. , & Pozarlik, A. K. (2023). Hydrothermal Carbonisation as Treatment for Effective Moisture Removal from Digestate—Mechanical Dewatering, Flashing-Off, and Condensates’ Processing. Energies, 16(13), Article 5102. https://doi.org/10.3390/en16135102
Niedzwiecki, L. K., Moscicki, K. , Bijl, A. , Owczarek, P., Arora, A., Wnukowski, M., Aragón-Briceño, C. I., Vishwajeet, Pawlak-Kruczek, H. , Bramer, E. , Brem, G. , & Pozarlik, A. K. (2023). Influence of Hydrothermal Carbonization on Catalytic Fast Pyrolysis of Agricultural Biomass. Applied Sciences, 13(7), Article 4190. https://doi.org/10.3390/app13074190
Brentjes, A. (2023). Investigating charged water sprays through simulation and experiments. [PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT, University of Twente]. University of Twente. https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036555234
Venkatesh, V. (2022). Optimizing the design and process conditions for meat chilling with electrostatically charged sprays. [EngD Thesis, University of Twente]. University of Twente.
Jamil Ur Rahman, U. (2022). Towards a multizone vortex dryer for dairy sprays. [PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT, University of Twente]. University of Twente. https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036554725
Aragón-Briceño, C. I. , Pozarlik, A. K. , Bramer, E. , Brem, G., Wang, S., Wen, Y., Yang, W., Pawlak-Kruczek, H. , Niedzwiecki, L. K., Urbanowska, A., Mościcki, K., & Płoszczyca, M. (2022). Integration of hydrothermal carbonization treatment for water and energy recovery from organic fraction of municipal solid waste digestate. Renewable energy, 184, 577-591. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2021.11.106
van Beurden, E. , Pozarlik, A. K., Putra, B. A. , Brem, G., Bouten, T. W. F. M., Withag, J., & Axelsson, L.-U. (2021). Improved CFD Predictions of Pyrolysis Oil Combustion Using Advanced Spray Measurements and Numerical Models. In Proceedings of ASME Turbo Expo 2021: Turbomachinery Technical Conference and Exposition: Vol. 6: Ceramics and Ceramic Composites; Coal, Biomass, Hydrogen, and Alternative Fuels; Microturbines, Turbochargers, and Small Turbomachines (Vol. 6, pp. V006T03A006). Article GT2021-59206 (Turbo Expo: Power for Land, Sea, and Air; Vol. 6). American Society of Mechanical Engineers. https://doi.org/10.1115/GT2021-59206
Urbanowska, A., Kabsch-Korbutowicz, M., Aragon-Briceño, C., Wnukowski, M. , Pożarlik, A., Niedzwiecki, Ł., Baranowski, M., Czerep, M., Seruga, P., Pawlak-Kruczek, H. , Bramer, E. , & Brem, G. (2021). Cascade Membrane System for Separation of Water and Organics from Liquid By-Products of HTC of the Agricultural Digestate—Evaluation of Performance. Energies, 14(16), Article 4752. https://doi.org/10.3390/en14164752
Magdziarz, A., Mlonka-Mędrala, A., Sieradzka, M., Aragon-Briceño, C. , Pożarlik, A. , Bramer, E. A. , Brem, G., Niedzwiecki, Ł., & Pawlak-Kruczek, H. (2021). Multiphase analysis of hydrochars obtained by anaerobic digestion of municipal solid waste organic fraction. Renewable energy, 175, 108-118. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2021.05.018
Putra, B. A. (2020). Redesign of a gas turbine combustor for optimum combustion of pyrolysis oil. [EngD Thesis, University of Twente]. University of Twente.
Nagasundaram, S. (2020). Designing an anaerobic digester with enhanced mixing. [EngD Thesis, University of Twente]. University of Twente.
Norouzi Firouz, H. (2020). Redesign of an anaerobic digester with optimum biogas output using CFD-ADM1 modelling. [EngD Thesis, University of Twente]. University of Twente.
Urbanowska, A., Aragon Briceño, C. I., Wnukowski, M., Kabsch-Korbutowicz, M. , Pozarlik, A. K., Baranowski, M. , Niedzwiecki, L. K., Seruga, P., Pawlak-Kruczek, H. , Bramer, E. A. , & Brem, G. (2020). Separation of water from liquid by-products of the agricultural digestate HTC. In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference Contemporary Problems of Thermal Engineering . CPOTE 2020
Aragon Briceño, C. I. , Pozarlik, A. K. , Bramer, E. A. , Brem, G., Wang, S., Yang, W., Pawlak-Kruczek, H. , Niedzwiecki, L. K., Moscicki, K., & Ploszczyca, M. (2020). Influence of the wet torrefaction treatment on the organic fraction of municipal solid waste digestate. In 6th International Conference on Contemporary Problems of Thermal Engineering (CPOTE2020): Book of abstracts AGH University of Science and Technology. https://www.s-conferences.eu/cpote2020/BookOfAbstracts/Abstract/109

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Education

I am teaching in the bachelor and master phase of the Mechanical Engineering and in the master phase of the Sustainable Energy Technology 

Affiliated Study Programmes

Bachelor

Master

Courses Academic Year  2023/2024

Courses in the current academic year are added at the moment they are finalised in the Osiris system. Therefore it is possible that the list is not yet complete for the whole academic year.
 

Courses Academic Year  2022/2023

Projects

I am involved in various national and international projects in the fields of: combustion, drying, atomization, evaporation, renewable fuels, pyrolysis oil, biogas production, fluid-structure interaction, etc.

Below projects from the last 5 years:

Current Projects

Finished Projects

  • Vortex Chamber II

    Vortex Chamber Spray Dryer

  • BE2O

    Pyrolysis oil combustion in gas turbine

  • Groen Gas

  • Vortex Chamber I

  • HiTAC

  • SCARLET PLUS

  • NeMo

    Numerical investigation of multicomponent fuel combustion

  • Biomass gasification

  • Optimized SNG

In the press

1) My interview for Gas to Power Journal titled: Thermo-acoustic instability modelling boost turbine lifetimes, April 14, 2014, you can find here:

https://www.gastopowerjournal.com/technologyainnovation/item/3278-thermo-acoustic-instability-modelling-to-boost-turbine-lifetimes

2) Interview of my PhD student Joost Sallevelt titled: Liquid biofuels could power future gas turbines, May 27, 2014, in the same journal you can find here:

https://www.gastopowerjournal.com/technologyainnovation/item/3481-liquid-biofuels-could-power-future-gas-turbines

 

Contact Details

Visiting Address

University of Twente
Faculty of Engineering Technology
Horst Complex (building no. 20), room N246
De Horst 2
7522LW  Enschede
The Netherlands

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University of Twente
Faculty of Engineering Technology
Horst Complex  N246
P.O. Box 217
7500 AE Enschede
The Netherlands

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