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1. TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF LODZ- partner BASIC INFORMATION Technical University of Lodz provides technical education since 1945 State university with higher education at 9 faculties: - Mechanical Engineering - Electrical and Electronic Engineering - Chemistry - Textile Engineering - Biotechnology and Food Science - Civil Engineering, Architecture and Environmental Engineering - Technical Physics, Computer Science and Applied Mathematics - Organisation and Management - Process and Environmental Engineering Number of students: 20 000 http://www.p.lodz.pl

2. TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF LODZ- partner INSTITUTE OF TURBOMACHINERY 219/223 Wólczańska St. 93-005 Łódź Poland phone:++ (48 42) 631 23 64, 631 23 53 fax:++ (48 42) 636 13 83 e-mail: imp@p.lodz.plhttp://www.imp.p.lodz.pl

3. TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF LODZ- partner INSTITUTE OF TURBOMACHINERY The Institute consists of 4 divisions: Division of Fluid Mechanics Division of Flow Metrology • Division of Diagnostics • and Automatics of Flow • Installations(3 groups): • Diagnostics of Rotating Machinery • Gas and Magnetic Bearings • Automatics • Division of Thermal • Turbomachinery(4 groups): • Turbines and Compressors • Turbopumps • Medical Apparatus • Heat Transfer

4. TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF LODZ- partner INSTITUTE OF TURBOMACHINERY The Institute employs: - 2 titular professors (Krysiński, Kazimierski) - 4 associate professors (Brzeski, Ciepłucha, Kozanecka, Kozanecki) - 4 habilitation doctors (Błaszczyk, Kryłłowicz, Prywer, Wawszczak) (D.Sc.) - 14 doctors (Ph.D.) - 6 assistants - 21 engineering administrative staff members - 4 maintenance staff members 55 staff members

5. TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF LODZ- partner INSTITUTE OF TURBOMACHINERY • The courses conducted by the Institute: • Fluid Mechanics (with laboratory classes) • Fundamentals of Metrology (with laboratory classes) • Fundamentals of Turbomachinery (with laboratoryclasses) • Specialization courses • Diploma thesis tutoring • new branch of studies Power Engineering, conductedby the Institute of Turbomachinery, was started in the academic year 2003/2004

6. TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF LODZ- partner INSTITUTE OF TURBOMACHINERY The most important laboratory equipment: • electric power installed 4 MW (6 kV) and 2.5 MW (380 V), • CLARK air compressor, the flow of 7.1 kg/s at the compressionratio 2.5, • wind tunnel for investigations of turbomachinery blade profilesup to 0.5 Mach number, • wind tunnel for automatic calibration of velocity probesin thesteady and unsteady flow up to 0.5 Mach number, • system for automatic measurements of velocity, pressure andtemperature fields in the steady and unsteady flow in turbomachines, • test stand for automatic calibration of electric pressure transducers, • anechoic chamber (dimensions: 7.5 x 13.5 x 5.5 m) for aeroacousticinvestigations of turbomachine stages, with a free air flow, • set of test stands of active magnetic bearings, including test stands foractive control of rotating shaft vibrations.

7. TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF LODZ- partner INSTITUTE OF TURBOMACHINERY • set of test stands of turbomachines equipped with unconventional gas and magnetic bearing systems; • set of test stands of gas bearings, including variable-geometry and ambient gas-lubricated bearings and absolute gas seals; • ADRE diagnostic system for advanced analysis of vibrations in rotating systems of turbomachinery; • LMS Pimento data Acquisition and Analysis System; • Brüel&Kjaer apparatus for the measurement and analysis of machine mechanical vibrations with the LMS CADA PC professional software for the modal analysis; • Brüel&Kjaer apparatus for acoustic tests; • test stand for automatic calibration of pressure transducers; • apparatus for the analysis of diameters of atomized liquid drops in the range from 0.5 to 3,000 m, of the maximum counting speed 10,000 drops/sec.

8. TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF LODZ- partner INSTITUTE OF TURBOMACHINERY Examples of our activities TP 3100 turbopump with a CMP 509 gas turbine – developed by WSK Rzeszów and the Institute of Turbomachinery, TUL (1965)

9. TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF LODZ- partner INSTITUTE OF TURBOMACHINERY 1.I1.76 centrifugal compressor

10. TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF LODZ- partner INSTITUTE OF TURBOMACHINERY TM-3 two-stage low-pressure turbine general view instrumentation

11. TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF LODZ- partner INSTITUTE OF TURBOMACHINERY Anechoic chamber

12. TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF LODZ- partner INSTITUTE OF TURBOMACHINERY TM1 turbine test rig

13. TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF LODZ- partner RESEARCHES ACTIVITIES OF PROF. PIOTR KULA TEAM Changing the properties of the surface layers of machine parts and tools to increase their reliability and durability by means of vacuum treatment and thermo-chemical treatment and CVD and PVD methods: • low pressure nitriding, • gas sulphonitriding, • vacuum carburizing with quenching in gases at elevated pressures FineCarb • thermal oxidation and creation of functional gradient layers on titanium and its alloys

14. TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF LODZ- partner RESEARCHES ACTIVITIES OF PROF. PIOTR KULA TEAM • Computer modeling and optimization of carburizing process, nitriding and carbonitriding of steels and thermal oxidation of titanium alloys. • Quenching modeling • Pressure die casting modeling • Simulation software for carburizing, nitriding, carbonitriding and quenching for industrial applications

15. TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF LODZ- partner RESEARCHES ACTIVITIES OF PROF. ZBIGNIEW GAWRONSKI TEAM • Modeling and optimization of the residual stresses distribution after different kinds of thermo-chemical treatment • Optimization of the surface hardening processes and grinding to obtain the synergetic generation of favorable stresses distribution. • Designing and optimization of service properties of metals, composites and sintered metals by means of FEM analysis and ANSYS package.