Bogdan Dlugogorski
Professor
Engineering and Information Technology
Murdoch University
Australia
Biography
In essence, Bogdan Dlugogorski is a chemical engineer and an environmental chemist, developing industrial processes that are safe to people and the environment. His main interest is in process safety, especially in fire and explosion safety engineering as applied to industrial processes. At a more basic level, his research focuses on fundamental chemical processes that operate in fires, especially in phenomena that lead to emission of toxic pollutants from fires and industrial processes. This also includes ways of preventing emission of pollutants, mitigation of unwanted fires, processing of waste to avoid pollutant emission and minimising discharge of CO2 to atmosphere. I am particularly interested in formation of brominated, chlorinated and mixed-halogenated dioxins (i.e., PCDD/F, PBDD/F, PXDD/F) and related molecules, emission of NOx from combustion and explosion processes, storage of CO2 by mineralisation and utilisation of CO2, flammability properties of specific chemicals, such as CS2, and nitrosation processes that operate in human body and in sensitisation of ammonium-nitrate emulsion explosives.
Research Interest
Main interest is in process safety, especially in fire and explosion safety engineering as applied to industrial processes.
Publications
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Balucan R, Dlugogorski BZ “Thermal activation of antigorite for mineralisation of CO2†Environmental Science and Technology 47, 182-190 (2013) [A* in ERA 2010]
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Altarawneh M, Dlugogorski BZ, Kennedy EM, Mackie JC “Rate constants for reactions of ethylbenzene with hydroperoxyl radicalâ€, Combustion and Flame 160(1), 9-16 (2013) [A* in ERA 2010]
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Stec AA, Readman J, Blomqvist P, Gylestam D, Karlsson D, Wojtalewicz D, Dlugogorski BZ “Analysis of toxic effluents released from PVC carpet under different fire conditionsâ€, Chemosphere 90, 65-71 (2013) [A in ERA 2010]
