Application of Waste Materials in Lightweight Aggregates (Innovations in Environmental Engineering)

Application of Waste Materials in Lightweight Aggregates presents the current state of knowledge on aggregates production methods, their characteristics, current standards and legal regulations. In addition, the book briefly discusses the issue of the presence of different types of waste in the environment (including municipal, agricultural, energy and mining industries), their characteristics and uses for the production of lightweight aggregates.

This book serves as a source of academic information on the course and conditions of using various waste treatment processes for academics, engineers, professionals and students interested in environmental engineering, as well as for companies dealing with recycling and disposal of waste.

Franus Małgorzata, PhD, ScD (habilitation) was born in 1974 in Dębica, Poland. In 1998 she received MSc at the AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow. Since 2000 she has been working in the Lublin University of Technology, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture. She received a PhD in the discipline of environmental engineering (2009) and DSc (habilitation) in 2016 at the Lublin University of Technology, Faculty of Environmental Engineering. She is an associate professor at the Department of General Construction, Lublin University of Technology. Now she is working on the utilization of selected waste for the production of sintered lightweight aggregates and concrete, (i) and (ii) the use of microwave radiation for the production of construction materials, synthesis, modification and characterization of sorbents used to remove pollutants from water and sewage, (iii) catalytic carriers for air purification manufacturing, (iv).

She has published 79 papers, including 40 papers in the list of Journal Citation Reports, three books and is co-author of six Polish patents. She participated in the implementation of 17 research projects, three of which she led.