Acta Innovations

17-23

Authors: Monika Staniszewska

The article presents the NIMBY syndrome as a type of a local conflict, taking into account the stage of development of the phenomenon, its levels and methods of mitigation. NIMBY syndrome is described as a conflict affecting the lives of local communities, referring to classical concept of conflict. The article covers also an analysis of investments in renewable energy sources as potentially threatened by NIMBY syndrome.

35-47

Authors: Magdalena Urbaniak, Anna Wyrwicka, Edyta Kiedrzyńska, Sylwia Staniak, Anna Gałązka, Wojciech Tołoczko, Grzegorz Siebielec

Increase of sewage sludge production in Poland required undertaking specific methods of their utilization and disposal. The reason is that sewage sludge despite organic matter, and nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus that are useful for agriculture use, contains also heavy metals, toxic organic pollutant such as persistent organic pollutant, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, inorganic compounds such as silicates and aluminates, and pathogenic and other microbial pollutants. This implicates problems with the further use of such contaminated sludge as a fertilizer in the agriculture. Considering above, the general aim of this paper is to review the possibilities and restrictions of municipal sewage sludge use as soil and plant fertilizer. In particular, the effect of municipal sewage sludge application on the soil organic matter restitution and preservation and crop yield were investigated; and in the case of contaminated sewage sludge overview of the main methods of their treatment prior to introduction into the environment.

54-60

Authors: Katarzyna Caban-Piaskowska, Magdalena Zalewska-Turzyńska

Many production companies existing on Polish market – not only in the textile industry – relies on a linear structure. The thesis formulated in this article is that in many of them the matrix structure can be introduced. That will improve functioning of the company. In an attempt to justify the thesis case study method was used, which is illustrative here. Consequently, this article became the theoretical and empirical work.

14-18

Authors: Anna Pazera, Marcin Bizukojć, Karina Michalska

In this paper we presented the concept model of the calculation tool for balancing energy and carbon dioxide in the production and use of biofuels. This model is based on life-cycle analysis, and covers all stages of the manufacture and processing of raw materials for biofuels, and the extraction of energy. The purpose of the model and calculation tool is to assess whether the biofuel produced in a number of processes can be called a renewable energy source in the full sense of the word, and whether its production and use makes sense from an energy point of view.

30-36

Authors: Sławomir Bielecki

The article presents a conception of prosumer intelligent electrical system for modern buildings, especially for public buildings. This system can be treated as element of smart grids. A special role in proposed structure comes in an external establishment providing electric power services by outsourcing.

13-28

Authors: Maciej Sibiński

This article attempts to demonstrate the imp ortance of photovoltaic installations in improving the energy in- dependence of a dairy equipped with a biogas reactor. It focuses on the development of photovoltaic technologies towards the wider use of solar cells in industrial power engineering installati ons, the potential of photovoltaic installations in Poland, and the storage and processing of energy from photovoltaic sources. An attempt has also been made to analyze the potential of a milk processing plant to meet its energy needs using photovoltaic so urces

44-50

Authors: Dominika Trębacz

The article concentrates on research data analysis about state of enterpreneurs’ awareness about strategy of operating in crisis, related to their own situation. In parallel the suggestions and recommendations were given for enterprises in relation to image creation, usage of social media etc. in crisis situations.

59-77

Authors: Maksymilian Kochański

In the article the methods and sources of financing the improvements of energy efficiency in Poland in 2014- 2020 was presented. It is an overview of available information, which will allow potential investors (public institutions and enterprises) to adjust a proper financial engineering to technical stipulations of a planned energy-saving investment.

17-22

Authors: Marek Sikora

The aim of this article is to bring together issues related to the connection of renewable energy s ources to the power grid. The principles of connecting the production sources described in this article apply practically to any renewable source for which the final product is electricity. Recent changes to the Energy Law in micro and small installation s have also been considered , as well as the impact of these changes on the connection process.

32-40

Authors: Ewa Kochańska

The article presents a comparative analysis of the innovation support system in Poland and Spain and references the innovation issues of clothing and textil e manufacture sector in Poland. A list of recommendations for clothing and textile companies from the Łódź region was drawn up based on the Spanish experience and the idea of Open Innovation. This article analyzes the thesis that open innovation, socia l entrepreneurship, incentives for creativity and interdisciplinarity are far more important for economic success than capital resources or natural resources

48-52

Authors: Monika Staniszewska

The increasing availability of information and communications technology (ICT) affects the methodology of social research. Researchers increasingly use the Internet to conduct the research. The Internet research can be conducted using a variety of techniques, including: online surveys, individual interviews and focus group interviews, observation, content analysis. New medium carries out not only possibilities, but also drawbacks.

10-16

Authors: Ewa Kochanska, Iwona Adamkiewicz

The article is related to a phenomenon of Open Innovation (OI), which is a substantive opposition to so called closed innovation, which assumes that creating value needs to be controlled to succeed. There were main assumptions of Open Innovation presented, which is making multisharing capitals, concentrating enterprises, organizations, scientific entities, aimed at fulfilment of a common goal which is creation and development of innovative products. The role of networks and stakeholders was analysed in the context of implementation and usage of outer knowledge, access to new markets of abilities, information etc. In the text the focal points were the determinants of implementation of open innovation and clusters as the source of innovations and synergy of benefits. In the context of essence and assumptions of Open Innovation, the Cluster Bioenergy for the Region and deENet network were analysed

25-42

Authors: Stanisław Aleksandrow

The a im of the paper is to analyze projects focused on decentralized energy supply systems, energy - optimized design and construction, as well as energy - efficient industrial processes and sustainable energy supply concepts. In view of the above, projects such as the following were analyzed: "Regiony w 100% Odnawialne" ("100% Re- newable Regions), "KLIMZUG", " Zabytki i Energia " ("Monuments and Energy"), "Klimaregio", "Sieć elektroenergetyczna przyszłości" ("The Power Engineering Network of the Future"), " Polsko - niemiecki dialog klastrów" ("Polish - German Cluster Dialog"), "Energooszczędne budownictwo i mieszkanie" ("Energy Efficient Construction and Housing"), "dEcoSense", "Manager Energetyczny – IHK" ("Power Engineering Manager - IHK") d "Okrągły stół ener getyczny Północnej Hesji" ("Northern Hesse Energy Round Table")

50-62

Authors: Maksymilian Kochański, Katarzyna Korczak, Olaf Dybiński, Mateusz Kwas, Kamil Osipowicz, Aleksandra Patejuk, Anna Sawicka, Bernard Swoczyna

The article presents the potential of hydrogen production and storage in Poland. Fossil fuel decomposition (including Steam Methane Reforming, Catalytic Partial Oxidation, Auto-Thermal Reforming and coal gasification), biological material decomposition (biological and thermochemical methods) as well as nuclear technologies are analysed as key techniques of hydrogen production in Poland. The total technical potential of hydrogen production is estimated at the level of 37 million Mg on an annual basis within the whole country. Coal gasification is described as the most perspective technology of hydrogen production. The article covers also an overview of hydrogen storage possibilities in phorous materials and polymers, and the use of hydrogen as a fuel in transportation.