Main Research Areas:
- Polish mineral resources
- Geodynamic synoptic and geothermics of Polish geostructural basins
- Development of information systems for the purpose of forecasting development of the mineral resources economy
- Fuels and energy economics
- Regionalisation of Polish energy policy under economic and ecologic considerations
- Industrial waste storage in exhausted mine sites and management of municipal waste
- Sustainable development of Polish regions
Within these areas, the scientific activities of the Institute include the following:
- Methodologies of forecasting, researching and recognition of mineral deposits,
- Development of unified forms for storage of geodynamic synoptic and multi-variant data,
- Geological, geodynamic and geothermal process models,
- Implementation of computer-based geodynamic synoptic data processing for geological forecasting
- Development of deposit management projects and raw materials acquisition methods from primary and secondary sources,
- Assessment of the possibilities of existence of geothermal water deposits in different regions of Poland and analysis of these water deposit for use in management plans for cities and communes
- Mineral resources acquisition strategy and its use assessment
- Effective methods of mineral resources and energy use evaluation
- Methodologies of optimisation the use of energy sources taking into consideration spatial distribution of these sources
- Comparative analysis of Polish and international technologies for exploitation and processing of mineral resources and assessment of their efficiencies
- Assessment of efficiency and profitability of new investments in the mineral resources economy
- Development of optimisation models for decision support in the processes of restructuring the mining and power industries
- Modelling of the domestic mineral resources economy and structures of the mineral resources industry
- Assessment of the possibilities and economics of unconventional energy sources use
- Environmental science in hydroelectric and irrigation engineering
- Methodologies to forecast the efficient acquisition of energy from energy mineral sources
- Rules of price formation for both energy resources and energy in the period of economic transition
- Municipal waste management, especially the use of biogas by cities and communes
- Analysis of risk in geotechnical projects concerning the underground storage of hazardous waste
- Legal and economic aspects of industrial waste storage in exhausted mine sites.
 Work done in 2006 – the part financed by budget
Contracts done in 2006
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