Kamil Oster

• PhD
• Research Associate at The University of Manchester

Waste PVC is scarcely recycled due to its high chlorine content and its use in composite materials, which reduces the applicability of conventional waste treatment methods, including thermal, mechanical and chemical recycling. For this reason, alternative treatment options are being developed to increase the recyclability of waste PVC. This paper f...

PVC is often found in composite materials and dehydrochlorination has been shown to be a viable option to recover valuable carbon forms and HCl from PVC, however, in current processes, the high temperature of operation is still detrimental. Ionic liquids were shown to tackle this issue by reducing the temperature of dehydrochlorination and improvin...

Heat transfer fluids materials are manufactured for the purpose of transfer, distribution and storage of heat. Several of their important properties can be listed (for example flash point, thermal expansivity or technical safety). However, to assess the thermal exchange performance of these fluids, a prior knowledge of their heat capacity, density,...

The dispersion of nanoparticles into ionic liquids leads to enhancement of their thermal conductivity. Several papers report on various enhancement values, whereas the comparison between these values with those from theoretical calculations is not always performed. These thermal conductivity enhancements are desired due to their beneficial impact o...

Abstract Ionic Liquids (ILs) are task specific materials with tunable properties which may be applied as heat transfer fluids (HTFs) due to their characteristic properties including low vapour pressure, wide liquid range and high thermal stability. This study provides an evaluation of their potential as HTFs from both their physicochemical properti...

Nanofluids, systems consisting of a base fluid and dispersed nanoparticles, have attained a large scientific interest recently, mainly due to unusual enhancement in their thermal properties like the thermal conductivity and heat capacity. While both molecular solvents and ionic liquids have been examined, ionic liquids are known for the specific pr...

Efficient, fast and accurate heat transfer units design is currently a ‘hot topic’ due to the demand for more approachable and high-performance-ability materials. This is usually performed by the prediction of physical properties coupled with sufficient structure searching (for example with genetic algorithm). Ionic liquids have been found to be pr...

This study reports the exptl. measurements of speeds of sound from 293.15 to 313.15 K and pressures up to 100 MPa in 1, 2- dichloroethane, and up to 45 MPa in 1, 2- dibromoethane, approaching solidification of this compd. In addn., new atm. pressure data on densities of 1, 2- dichloroethane from 278.15 to 348.15 K are presented. These exptl. data h...