Construction is one of the industrial sectors responsible for the use of large quantities of natural raw materials. This fact makes it necessary to look for new technologies of producing construction materials based as much as possible on waste materials. Such a solution could have positive effects on the environment and reduce construction costs. This paper presents the results of a study on the deformability of a mix made from anthropogenic waste combined with a hydraulic binder. The presented mixes consist of unburnt coal mining slates (mine waste), shredded rubber waste, silica fly ash and CEM I 42.5 R cement. Samples with two different contents of shredded rubber waste 0% and 10% were made from the mixtures and subjected to destructive compressive strength testing. The strength testwas combined with sample deformation measurement performed with the Aramis 3D Video Correlation System. The results presented show the effect of the shredded rubber waste content on the deformability of the sample.

Experimental research has been carried out in a supercritical circulating fluidized bed combustor in order to indicate the effect of the bed particle size on bed-to-wall heat transfer coefficient. The bed inventory used were 0.219, 0.246 and 0.411 mm Sauter mean particles diameter. The operating parameters of a circulating fluidized bed combustor covered a range from 3.13 to 5.11 m/s for superficial gas velocity, 23.7 to 26.2 kg/(m2s) for the circulation rate of solids, 0.33 for the secondary air fraction and 7500 to 8440 Pa pressure drop. Furthermore, the bed temperature, suspension density and the main parameters of cluster renewal approach were treated as experimental variables along the furnace height. The cluster renewal approach was used in order to predict the bed-to-wall heat transfer coefficient. A simple semi-empirical method was proposed to estimate the overall heat transfer coefficient inside the furnace as a function of particle size and suspension density. The computationally obtained results were compared with the experimental data of this work.

An interview with professor Maciej Salamon, a historian, medievalist, and Byzantinist, renowned expert in numismatics, about his childhood home and studies in Cracow, academic career at the University of Silesia and Jagiellonian University, as well as study trips.