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dr hab. inż. Sabina Rosiek-Pawłowska

Email: sabina.rosiek@pwr.edu.pl
Structure: Faculty of Mechanical and Power Engineering » Department of Thermodynamics and Renewable Energy Sources

Current position:

01.10.2019 – Present: Associate Professor, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Mechanical and Power Engineering.

15.05.2020 – Present: Co-Chair of the Department of Thermodynamics and Renewable Energy Sources at Wroclaw University of Science and Technology.

 

Biosketch:

I obtained my Master’s degree in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from Wroclaw University of Science and Technology (WUST, Poland) in 2005; this was completed with a Leonardo da Vinci scholarship at the University of Almería (UAL, Spain). Afterwards, I completed a Master’s degree in Solar Energy at the UAL to widen my knowledge of renewable energy systems. In 2006, I started my doctorate studies in the Applied Physics Department at the UAL and Solar Energy Research Center (CIESOL), obtaining my PhD degree in 2011. The research carried out at that time focused on developing a methodology for optimizing a solar-assisted air-conditioning system using an artificial neural network (one of the first and most promising systems of this type worldwide). After obtaining the Doctorate degree, I continued my research activity up until July 2019 as a Postdoctoral Researcher at CIESOL as part of a scholarship awarded from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation under grant. This work has fascinated me and has led me to present innovating research concepts related to state-of-the-art renewable energy solutions linked to sustainable development, societal trends and technology. This work has been carried out as part of two successfully awarded European grants: “THERBIOR” and “PCMSOL”. During my 15 years of work experience as a researcher at CIESOL, I had the chance to collaborate with researchers who possess diverse competencies in physics, control engineering, electronics, chemistry, and mechanics – this resulted in me contracting the interdisciplinary bug! In October 2019, I was awarded the Polish Return Programme from the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange. Thanks to this programme, I was given the opportunity to establish my own research group. Since then, we have been carrying out independent research, which involves the simulation, development, and implementation of a novel radiative water mattress to be used in dairy cattle – this is a totally new research direction for me.

 

MAIN RESEARCH LINES:

  • Design and optimization of solar cooling and heating systems
  • Solar district heating and cooling systems
  • Thermal energy storage: phase change materials, seasonal storage
  • Ground-source heat pumps
  • Reuse of the recovered heat from a wastewater treatment plant in the air-conditioning systems
  • Fully off-grid refrigeration systems applied to the agricultural sector
  • Oline  power output forecasting from a photovoltaic system
  • Heat abatement systems for dairy sector
  • Life Cycel Assessment
  • Food-energy-water nexus
  • Sustainable design
  • Exergy Analysis
Research Projects
Publications
Curriculum Vitae

In total, I have published 35 papers: 19 peer-reviewed articles in major international journals for which the total impact factor of all my publications is 73.012 (JCR – list journals), with 551 citations (excluding self-citations) yielding an H-index of 12 (also excluding self-citations). Source Google Scholar. In 12 papers, I am the main and corresponding author.

 

Journal publications included in Journal Citations Reports – list journal:  

  • Gil B.; Szczepanowska A.; Rosiek S. New HFC/HFO Blends as Refrigerants for the Vapor-Compression Refrigeration System (VCRS). Energies, 14, nr 4, 946, pp. 1-23, 2021.
  • Batlles, F. J.; Puertas A.M.; Romero-Cano M.S.; Rosiek S.; Gil B.; Kasperski J.; Nems A.; Nems M.; Grageda M.; Ushak S.; Lujan M.; Maldonado D. Application of thermal storage in over-night refrigeration of an institutional building, Solar Energy,
  • Batlles, F. J.; Gil B.; Ushak S.; Kasperski J.; Lujan M.; Maldonado D.; Nems M.; Nems A.; Puertas A.M.; Romero-Cano M.S.; Rosiek S.; Grageda M. Development and results from application of PCM-based storage tanks in a solar thermal comfort system of an institutional building – a case study, Energies 2020, 13, 3877.
  • Rosiek S. Exergy analysis of a solar-assisted air-conditioning system: Case study in southern Spain. Applied Thermal Engineering, 148, pp. 806-816, 2019.
  • Munoz I.; Portillo F.; Rosiek S.; Batlles F.J.; Martinez-Del-Rio J.; Acasuso I.; Piergrossi V.; De Sanctis M.; Chimienti S.; Di Iaconi C. Prospective environmental and economic assessment of solar-assisted thermal energy recovery fromwastewater through a sequencing batch biofilter granular reactor, Clean. Prod., 2019, 212, 1300-1309.
  • 11: Romero-Cano M.S.; Puertas A.M.; Rosiek S.; Batlles, F. J. Kinetics of freezing and melting of encapsulated phase change materials with effective convection: experiments and simulations, Numerical Heat Transfer, Part A: Applications, 2019-Issue 12, 76, 909-924.
  • 10: Rosiek S.; Romero-Cano M.S.; Puertas A.M.; Batlles, F. J. Industrial food chamber cooling and power system integrated with renewable energy as an example of power grid sustainability improvement, Renewable Energy, 2019, 138, 697-708.
  • Rosiek S.; Alonso-Montesinos J.; Batlles, F. J. Online 3-h forecasting of power output from an integrated building photovoltaic system using satellite observations and artificial intelligence techniques, Electrical Power and Energy Systems, 2018, 99, 261-272.
  • Puertas A.M.; Romero-Cano M.S.; De las Nieves F.J.; Rosiek S.; Batlles F.J. Simulations of melting of encapsulated CaCl2·6H2O for thermal energy storage technologies, Energies, 2017, 10, 568.
  • Rosiek S.; Batlles F.J., Renewable energy solutions for building cooling, heating and power system installed in an institutional building: Case study in southern Spain. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2013, 26, 147-168.
  • Rosiek S.; Batlles F.J. Reducing a solar-assisted air-conditioning system's energy consumption by applying real-time occupancy sensors and chilled water storage tanks throughout the summer: a case study. Energy Conversion and Management, 76, pp. 1029-1042, 2013.
  • Rosiek S.; Batlles F.J., Shallow geothermal energy applied to a solar-assisted air-conditioning system in southern Spain: two-year experience. Applied Energy, 2012, 100, 267-276.
  • Batlles F.J.; Rosiek S.; Munoz I.; Fernández-Alba A.R. Environmental assessment of the CIESOL solar building after two years operation, Environmental Science and Technology, 2010, 44, 3587-3593.
  • Rosiek S.; Batlles, F.J. Performance study of a solar-assisted air-conditioning system provided with storage tanks using artificial neural networks, International Journal of Refrigeration, 2011, 34, 1446-1454.
  • Rosiek S.; Batlles F.J., Performance evaluation of solar-assisted air-conditioning system with chilled water storage (CIESOL building). Rosiek S.; Batlles F.J., Energy Conversion and Management, 2011, 55, 81-92.
  • Rosiek S.; Batlles, F.J. Modelling a solar-assisted air-conditioning system installed in the CIESOL building using artificial neural network, Renewable Energy, 2010, 35, 2894-2901.
  • Martinez-Durban M.; Zarzalejo L.F.; Bosch J.L.; Rosiek S.; Polo J.; Batlles F.J. Estimation of global daily irradiation in complex topography zones using digital elevation models and meteosat images: Comparison of the results, Energy Conversion & Management, 2009, 50, 2233-2238.
  • Rosiek S.; F.J Batlles. Integration of solar thermal energy in construction: Analysis of the solar-assisted air-conditioning system installed at the CIESOL building. Renewable Energy, 34, pp. 1423-1431, 2009.
  • Rosiek, ; F.J Batlles. A microcontroller-based data acquisition system for meteorological station monitoring. Energy Conversion & Management, 49, pp. 3746 - 3754, 2008.

 

Referee's report for journals from JCR in: Renewable Energy; Applied Energy; Energy; Energy and Buildings; Energies; Measurement; Journal of Green Engineering.

 

Invited presentations given in abroad:

6: Invited seminar entitled “Environmental Analysis, Water Treatment, Desalination and Solar Cooling” for students from the Gottlieb-Daimler-Schule 2, Germany, at CIESOL (Spain) on 09.05.2014 and 05.05.2015.

5: Keynote speaker: Seminar entitled “Road Energy Systems: heat from the street”, Environment, water and waste. Uniseminar series meets civil CPD, Innovation Centre, University of the Sunshine Coast (Australia) on 31.08.2013.

4: From June 2006 to May 2016, I was responsible for organizing and participating in national and international events promoting CIESOL and science-disseminating events, conducting numerous seminars and training courses for secondary school students, students from various disciplines, Spanish and international research bodies, relating to technology transfer activities in the field of solar energy applications.

3: Invited seminar entitled “Solar-assisted air-conditioning and photovoltaic system”. CIESOL (Spain) on 25.01.2013.

2: Invited seminar entitled “CIESOL’s research and technology transfer activities in the field of solar energy applications and energy efficiency”. CIESOL (Spain) on 09.04.2013, 22.07.2013, 19.09.2013 and 01.04.2014.

1: Invited didactic/informative training courses/seminars entitled “Installations with an increased risk of Legionella”, organized in the CIESOL (Spain) on 13.11.2012, 12.03.2013, 29.05.2013, 01.10.2013, 18.12.2013, 13.03.2014 and 11.06.2014 by IADEE Formación: Instituto Andaluz de Estudios Empresariales S.L.

 

Conference paper presentation at international conferences:

  • International conference on Renewable Energy and Water Technologies, 2006;
  • International conference on thermal insulation and acoustics, 2007;
  • International conference on Solar Energy, 2008;
  • The First Spanish Congress on Bioclimatic Architecture and Solar Cooling, 2010;
  • Water JPI Conference, 2016;
  • International Conference on Solar Energy for Buildings and Industry (Eurosun2016, 2018).
  • 32nd International Conference on Efficiency, Cost, Optimization, Simulation and Environmental Impact of Energy Systems, 2019.
  • The International Water Association, 3rd IWA Resource Recovery Conference, 2019.
  • ISES Solar World Conference 2019 and the IEA SHC Solar Heating and Cooling Conference for Buildings and Industry 2019.

 

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