Environmental Engineering V ─ Proceedings of the Fifth National Congress of Environmental Engineering, Lublin, Poland, 29 May - 1 June, 2016

The central goals of the book Environmental Engineering V are to summarize research carried out in Poland, and to improve technology transfer and scientific dialogue in this time of economic transformation from a planned to a free market economy, thereby leading to a better comprehension of solutions to a broad spectrum of environmentally related problems.

Poland, like other post-communist countries, is undergoing transformation into a capitalist system. This transformation brings many problems – economic, social, psychological and also ecological. Ecological problems are strongly connected with the political, economic and psychological inheritance of the past as well as with changes in the post-communist society.

To understand these problems it is necessary to consider the following issues:

• The geographic situation of Poland,
• The political transformations that occurred after World War II – forced development of heavy industry combined with neglect of its effects on the environment,
  and
• The economic problems

Presentation of the scientific findings and technical solutions created by the Polish research community ought to be of interest not only for Polish institutions, but also for international specialists, seeking solutions for environmental problems in emerging new democracies, especially those who plan to participate in numerous projects sponsored by the European Union.

Malgorzata Pawlowska, Ph.D., Sc.D. 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. Since that time she has been working in the Lublin University of Technology, Faculty of Environmental Engineering. In 1999 she defended Ph.D. in the Institute of Agrophysics of the Polish Academy of Science and in 2005 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 currently works on biomethanization processes and application of selected wastes for remediation of degraded land.?Malgorzata has publishes 59 papers, 2 books and is coauthor of 7 polish patents, 1 european patent, 28 polish patent applications and 25 european patent applications.

Lucjan Pawlowski, was born In Poland, 1946. He is Dean of Faculty of Environmental Engineering and Director of the Institute of Environmental Protection Engineering of the Lublin University of Technology, Member of the European Academy of Science and Arts, and?honorary professor of China Academy of Science. He got his Ph. D. in 1976, and D. Sc. in 1980, both at the Wroclaw University of Technology. He started research on the application of ion exchange for water and wastewater treatment. As a result he published a book "Wastewater Treatment by Ion Exchange” together with B. Bolto from CSIRO Australia,?in which they summarized their own results and experience of the ion exchange area. In total, he has published 19 books, over 128 papers, and authored 68 patents, and is a member of the editorial board of numerous international and national scientific and technical journals.