{"id":53036,"date":"2025-10-21T14:26:40","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T12:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ins.lukasiewicz.gov.pl\/?page_id=53036"},"modified":"2026-06-30T11:19:47","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T09:19:47","slug":"fertilizer-research-group","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ins.lukasiewicz.gov.pl\/en\/about-us\/research-groups\/fertilizer-research-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Fertilizer Research Group"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"53036\" class=\"elementor elementor-53036 elementor-47361\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-33ae474 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"33ae474\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fb5a13c elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"fb5a13c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2>Business Profile<\/h2><ul><li>Mineral and mineral-organic fertilizers.<\/li><li>Unit processes and operations with special emphasis on various granulation methods.<\/li><li>Environmental protection in the fertilizer industry.<\/li><li>Utilization of by-products and industrial waste from various industries (e.g., ash, digestate and municipal sludge) for fertilizer production.<\/li><li>Design of granulation processes starting from laboratory tests, through selection of industrial apparatus and equipment, to participation in commissioning of new installations and process lines.<\/li><li>Development of analyses and opinions and expert reports on fertilizer issues for the needs of government, local administration, courts and enterprises.<\/li><li>Providing research services for the selection of granulation techniques for bulk materials.<\/li><li>Producing batches of semi-technical granules.<\/li><li>Specialized technical consulting for the fertilizer industry.<\/li><\/ul><h2>Apparatus<\/h2><ul><li>Installation for testing the process of fertilizer granulation in a continuous system &#8211; capacity of 50-200 kg\/h of product, consisting of the following nodes:<ul><li>Dosing and preparation system for raw materials and pulp.<\/li><li>Granulation node: mixer granulation, disc and drum granulation.<\/li><li>Drying and cooling node: drum and belt dryer.<\/li><li>Granular classification and conditioning node (screens, sifters and surface treatment equipment).<\/li><li>The system of cleaning and dust removal of air from individual nodes.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Testing plant for the production of liquid clarified and slurry fertilizers, equipped with:<ul><li>Reactors for the preparation of process pulps, solutions and melts.<\/li><li>Mixers, homogenizers, filter press: for obtaining stable and homogeneous products.<\/li><li>Mills for grinding raw materials and controlling particle size in suspensions.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>ERWEKA&#8217;s set of laboratory equipment for testing and processing bulk materials:<ul><li>Mixers: cubic, hopper, planetary and zeta mixers.<\/li><li>Disc granulator.<\/li><li>Compactor.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Thermal analysis kit for TG-DTA and TG-DSC methods:<ul><li>STA 449 F3 Jupiter analyzer coupled to Netzsch&#8217;s QMS 403C Aeolos mass spectrometer.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Laboratory homogenization kit for obtaining micro- and nanoemulsions IKA magic LAB.<\/li><li>Laboratory polarizing microscope with digital camera and OPTA-TECH software (image analysis and particle size measurement).<\/li><li>Particle size analyzer using laser diffraction Mastersizer 3000 from Malvern.<\/li><li>Mini-Midi Glatt fluidized bed granulator.<\/li><li>Hornik&#8217;s CFA AA3 automatic flow fertilizer analyzer.<\/li><li>Klimatest&#8217;s LU-113 temperature chamber and POL EKO-APARATURA&#8217;s KK FIT phytotron climate chamber.<\/li><li>ERWEKA TAR (ZT 220) granular abrasion testing apparatus and ERWEKA TBH 225D hardness tester.<\/li><li>KAMIKA&#8217;s AWK 3D particle shape and size analyzer.<\/li><li>Retsch AS200 grain size analyzer.<\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-001c89a e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"001c89a\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b7c259e elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"b7c259e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Manager<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element 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data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><b>Dr. Krzysztof Borowik<\/b><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-08c0852 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"08c0852\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-80ced3c elementor-view-default elementor-widget elementor-widget-icon\" data-id=\"80ced3c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"icon.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon\">\n\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"far fa-envelope\"><\/i>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e1e3a6e elementor-widget 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Unit processes and operations with special emphasis on various granulation methods. Environmental protection in the fertilizer industry. Utilization of by-products and industrial waste from various industries (e.g., ash, digestate and municipal sludge) for fertilizer production. 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