1. BASIC INFORMATION Technical University of Lodz
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:

2. INSTITUTE OF TURBOMACHINERY
TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF LODZ - partner
INSTITUTE OF TURBOMACHINERY
219/223 Wólczańska St.
Łódź
Poland
phone:++ (48 42) , fax:++ (48 42)

3. INSTITUTE OF TURBOMACHINERY The Institute consists of 4 divisions:
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. INSTITUTE OF TURBOMACHINERY
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.)
doctors (Ph.D.)
- 6 assistants
engineering administrative staff members
- 4 maintenance staff members
55 staff members

5. INSTITUTE OF TURBOMACHINERY
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 laboratory classes)
Specialization courses
Diploma thesis tutoring
new branch of studies Power Engineering, conducted by the Institute of Turbomachinery, was started in the academic year 2003/2004

6. INSTITUTE OF TURBOMACHINERY
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 compression ratio 2.5,
wind tunnel for investigations of turbomachinery blade profiles up to 0.5 Mach number,
wind tunnel for automatic calibration of velocity probes in the steady and unsteady flow up to 0.5 Mach number,
system for automatic measurements of velocity, pressure and temperature 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 aeroacoustic investigations of turbomachine stages, with a free air flow,
set of test stands of active magnetic bearings, including test stands for active control of rotating shaft vibrations.

7. INSTITUTE OF TURBOMACHINERY
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. INSTITUTE OF TURBOMACHINERY Examples of our activities
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. INSTITUTE OF TURBOMACHINERY
TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF LODZ - partner
INSTITUTE OF TURBOMACHINERY
1.I1.76
centrifugal
compressor

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

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

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

13. RESEARCHES ACTIVITIES OF PROF. PIOTR KULA TEAM
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. RESEARCHES ACTIVITIES OF PROF. PIOTR KULA TEAM
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.