Email: tomasz.hardy@pwr.edu.pl

Unit: Faculty of Mechanical and Power Engineering » Department of Energy Conversion Engineering

Wybrzeże Wyspiańskiego 27, 50-372 Wrocław
building A-4, room 254
phone +48 71 320 2049

 

The subject matter of my research activity concerns issues related to the use of low-emission technology of solid fuels combustion (coal, biomass, biofuels, waste fuels) and ways to improve the efficiency of reducing gaseous pollutant emissions. For many years I have been involved in the development of diagnostic systems to identify corrosion and slagging hazards caused by the use of low-emission combustion technics in steam boilers and co-firing of various biomass types in them.

I’m a member of the Polish Institute of Combustion (PIS), Combustion Section of the Committee of Thermodynamics and Combustion of the Polish Academy of Sciences. I am the head of the Combustion and Explosion Laboratory at Wrocław University Science and Technology. The total of my achievements consists of 120 works - 41 scientific papers, monography and books, 47 reports, 6 patents.

I have participated in many research projects (national and international) financed by the Polish Committee for Scientific Research (KBN), National Science Centre (NCN), Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education, EIT Knowledge & Innovation Community KIC InnoEnergy, The National Centre for Research and Development, EDF Polska  and European Commission through Research Fund for Coal and Steel.

EDUCATION:
2020  – Habilitation in the Discipline of Environmental Engineering, Mining and Energy, Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland
2002  – PhD; Mechanical Power Engineering, Department of Combustion and Detonation, Wrocław University of Technology, Poland
1997 – Master; Mechanical Power Engineering, Wrocław University of Technology, Poland

CURRENT POSITIONS:
2020 – Associate Professor at Wrocław University Science and Technology (WUST), Poland
2020 – Deputy Head of Department of Mechanics, Machines, Devices and Energy Processes, Wrocław University Science and Technology (WUST), Poland

PREVIOUS POSITIONS:
2005–2020 – Faculty of Mechanics and Energy of the Wrocław University of Technology - Adjunct,
1998–2005 – Faculty of Mechanics and Energy of the Wrocław University of Technology - Assistant
1997–1998 – Faculty of Mechanics and Energy of the Wrocław University of Technology - Technical consultant
1997 – Unimont Wrocław, Poland - Intern engineer

 

Selected publications:

1. T.Hardy, S.Kakietek, K.Halawa, K.Mościcki, T.Janda, Determination of high temperature corrosion rate of steam boilers evaporators using continuous measurement of flue gas composition and neural networks, Energies 2020, 13, 3134. IF: 02.702.
2. N.Modliński, T.Hardy, Development of high-temperature corrosion risk monitoring system in pulverized coal boilers based on reducing conditions identification and CFD simulations, Applied Energy, 2017, 204:1124-1137. IF=07.900.
3. T.Hardy, A.Musialik-Piotrowska, J.Ciołek, K.Mościcki, W.Kordylewski, Negative effects of biomass combustion and co-combustion in boilers, Environment Protection Engineering, 2012. vol. 38(1), pp. 25-33. IF: 00.423.
4. W.Kordylewski, W.Zacharczuk, T.Hardy, J.Kaczmarczyk: The effect of the calcium in lignite on its effectiveness as a reburn fuel. Fuel, 2005, vol. 84, nr 9, s. 1110-1115. IF: 01.674.
5. W.Zacharczuk, T.Hardy: Study of NO emission during combustion of Ca-loaded pulverized lignite, Chemical and Process Engineering, 2010, 31(3), pp. 451-460. IF: 00.252

Full publication record: https://dona.pwr.edu.pl/szukaj/default.aspx?nrewid=356926
Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tomasz_Hardy
Mendeley: https://www.mendeley.com/profiles/tomasz-hardy/

Selected projects or activities:

1. “Technology of plasma gasification of biomass and waste for the production of liquid fuels” - participation in the task of assessing gaseous products generated in the process of plasma gasification of biomass and organic waste.
2. "Modern technologies of energy use of biomass and biodegradable waste / BiOB / - conversion to energy gaseous fuels". I developed, among others, methodology for testing the speed of slagging in pulverized boilers and in the laboratory stand using the collecting probes.
3. Ecoalboiler - "Reduction of low-emission corrosion in pulverized boilers" and "Boiler tests to increase their efficiency, reduce environmental impact and reduce operating costs" - The projects were implemented as part of the cooperation of the Consortium of Polish Universities with EDF Polska.
4. “Advanced Near Zero Emission Coal Fired Power Plant” (Acronym ACoPP) - EIT Knowledge & Innovation Community KIC InnoEnergy in which I carried out the task titled: Analysis of the mechanism and rate of deposit formation and evaluation of the deposit morphology from the oxy-combustion of coal dust for selected parameters of the process.
5. “Corrosion and Emission Reduction of Utility Boilers through Intelligent Systems - Cerubis”. A research project co-financed by European Commission through Research Fund for Coal and Steel. My role in the project among others was to investigate of high-temperature corrosion phenomena in the real scale conditions under low emission demands for hard and lignite coal combustion, develop and test the on-line corrosion probes