Advances in Renewable Energy Research

Małgorzata Pawłowska, Ph.D., Sc.D. (habilitation) was born in 1969 in Sanok, Poland. In 1993 she received M.Sc of the protection of the environment at the Catholic University of Lublin, and has been working in the Lublin University of Technology, Faculty of Environmental Engineering ever since. In 1999 she defended Ph.D. in the Institute of Agrophysics of the Polish Academy of Science and in 2010 she defended D.Sc. thesis at the Technical University of Wroclaw and was appointed as associate professor and head of Engineering of Alternative Fuels Department at Faculty of Environmental Engineering Lublin University of Technology. She is currently working in the field of biomethanization processes and application of selected wastes for remediation of degraded land. Małgorzata has published 60 papers, 3 books and is co-author of 7 polish patents and 1 European patent.Prof. Artur Pawłowski was born in Lublin in 1969. From 1993 he has worked in the Lublin University of Technology where he is currently full Professor and Head of Department of Sustainable Development. His main field is environmental engineering, renewable sources of energy and multidimensional nature of sustainable development. In 2011 he published the book "Sustainable Development as a Civilizational Revolution. A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Challenges of the 21st Century" (Taylor and Francis / CRC Press). Artur is member of the European Academy of Science and Arts, the Committee of Environmental Engineering of the Polish Academy of Sciences, the International Academy of Ecological Safety and Nature Management and the International Association for Environmental Philosophy. He is also editor-in-chief of the scientific journal Problemy Ekorozwoju/ Problems of Sustainable Development and member of the editorial board of the Committee of Environmental Engineering monographs. Artur is author of more than 150 publications, published in English, Polish and Chinese.

• Fast methanification of liquid pig manure as an example for substrates with low organic content Development and demonstration of farm scale biogas biofilter systems for livestock biogas applications in Taiwan New concept of biogas system as renewable energy and multi-generation systems for sustainable agriculture-acceleration or selection of biochemical reaction HVAC systems supported by renewable energy sources—studies carried out at the Białystok University of Technology Status and trends of PV agriculture in China Biofuels and the environment Pretreatments to enhance the digestibility of recalcitrant waste—current trends Problems with energy supply