The European Ceramic Society

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Poland

REFRACTORY MATERIALS TESTING LABORATORY

Comprehensive research on the widely understood ceramics, including refractory and technical, performing research in both the ambient temperature and high temperatures

Director : MSc. Dominika FORYŚ

Email : d.forys @icimb.pl

Phone : +48 32 2701899

Address : Łukasiewicz Research Network– Institute of Ceramics and Building Materials Division of Refractory Materials in Gliwice, 99 Toszecka St., 44-100 Gliwice

Website : www.icimb.pl/icimb_en/

Research topics :

  • Chemical and phase composition of ceramic, raw materials and inorganic products (including waste
    products of mining and chemical industries as well as water, sewage and waste gas)

Contact information:

Dr. Eng. Katarzyna STEC

Tel: +48 32 2701898

Email: k.stec@icimb.pl

  • Basic properties of raw materials, products and loose materials including density, porosity, size
    distribution
  • Analysis of the microstructure of raw materials and ceramic materials before and after the
    corrosion

Contact information:
Contact name: Dr. Eng. Robert KUSIOROWSKI

Tel: +48 32 2701939

Email: r.kusiorowski@icimb.pl

  • Pore size distribution with the use of porosimetry and microscopic method

Contact information:
Contact name: Dr. Eng. Karolina DUDEK

Tel: +48 32 2701924

Email: k.dudek@icimb.pl

  • Tests of ceramics including application of non-destructive methods

Contact information:
Contact name: DSc. Eng. Jacek PODWÓRNY

Tel: +48 32 2701918

Email: j.podworny@icimb.pl

  • Thermal properties of raw materials and ceramic materials

Contact information:
Contact name: Dr. Eng. Renata SUWAK

Tel: + 48 32 2701839

Email: r.suwak@icimb.pl

  • Mechanical and thermo-mechanical properties of ceramic materials including elastic properties and
    fracture energy of ceramic
  • Refractories resistance properties to the erosion and corrosion of alloys, slags and gases

Contact information:
Contact name: Dr. Eng. Anna GERLE

Tel: +48 32 2701992

Email: a.gerle@icimb.pl

Exceptional facilities :

The only one in Poland accredited laboratory that is fully equipped to perform complex tests in the area of generally meant ceramics, including refractory and technical ones. It performs tests in both low and high temperature.

Financial support programmes :

European funding: CORNET

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