1. Department of Chemical Technology Faculty of Chemistry and Chem. Technology University of Ljubljana Slovenia

2. Chair of Chemical, Biochemical and Environmental Engineering Staff 7 Professors 5 Assistants 2 Graduate students Technical staff Industrial Cooperation Composting of waste microbial biomass Membrane separations in biotechnology Optimization of PA6 nylon spinning processes Characterization of semi-solids pharmaceutical products Reology of bitumen Reology of complex aqueous biopolymer systems Modeling of wastewater treatment plants Equipment — Continuous Stirred-Tank Microwave Reactor — Continuous Laboratory Bioreactors — Pilot Wastwater Treatmant Plant — gas chromatograph Hewlett-Packard GC 5890 — HPLC/GPC — Controlled Stress Rheometer, Haake RS 150 — Controlled Rate Rheometers, Haake CV 20, RV 100 — Mixing equipment for higly viscous non- newtonian fluids

3. Chair of Chemical, Biochemical and Environmental Engineering International Cooperation Wine technology -Production and application of selected Bothrystis cinerea inoculum for noble wine production (EU FP6, preparing) Cultivation of Ganoderma lucidum biomass and production of its pharmaceutical active compounds (EU FP6, preparing) Ganoderma lucidum (China – Slovenian bilateral collaboration) Optimization of Sauvignon/Cabernet Sauvignon fermentation (Argentine – Slovenian bilateral collaboration) Bothrytis cinerea (Austrian – Slovenian bilateral collaboration) Food quality and safety – Microwave Sterilization and Pasteurization; University of Cagliary, Italy (EU FP6, preparing) Mixing processes in rheologicaly complex higly viscous fluids (Greek – Slovenian bilateral collaboration) Transport phenomena in hydrophilic biopolymers (Italian – Slovenian bilateral collaboration, preparing)

4. Chair of Inorganic Chemical Technology and Materials Research areas Nano materials and nanocomposites Materials for SOFC fuel cells Lithium ion batteries Combustion synthesis of ceramic materials Characterization of electrical properties of ionic and mixed conductors and interfaces at various temperatures Industrial Cooperation Development of VOC catalysts Secondary energents and raw materials for cement production Staff 2 Professors 3 Assistants 3 Graduate students 1 Technitian International Cooperation Technical University Graz Max - Planck Institute for Solid State Physics Equipment Netzsch TG and EGA (MS) analyzer ST 209 Mettler TG, DSC 4000 System Jeol Scanning electron microscope T300 Leitz metalographic and heating microscope…

5. Chair of Polymer Engineering and Organic Chemical Technology Staff 2 Professors; 2 Assistants 2 Graduate students; Techn.staff International Cooperation ENK6-CT-2002-00679 Development of unglazed solar absorbers for building facades, and integration into heating systems (SOLABS) Socrates bilateral agreement, Universidad de Valencia Industrial Cooperation production in C-1 chemistry: methanol, formaldehyde, urea-formaldehyde resins research and development in environmental friendly processes and products in the field of resins and paints basic research in bulk radical polymerization biodiesel: basic research in kinetics and applications improvement of capacity in H 2 O 2 plant silicate technology: industrial drying and product development integral wastewater pretreatment for biological plants using separation processes capacity and selectivity improvement in desulfurization plants Equipment differential scanning calorimetry DSC Mettler Toledo 821e FT - infrared spectroscopy FTIR Perkin Elmer SPECTRUM 1000 gas chromatograph Hewlett-Packard GC 5890 HPLC/GPC Shimadzu LC-4A on-line FTIR measurement ReactIR4000 Mettler -ASI complete