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Head of the Institute

Head of the Institute of Thermal Power Engineering

Professor Jan Taler, Ph.D. Dsc. – is a professor of mechanical engineering at the Cracow University of Technology.
At present, he is the Director of the Institute of Thermal Power Engineering, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Cracow University of Technology.

Professional career history:

  • MSc degree – Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Cracow University of Technology– 1974,
  • Ph.D. degree – Cracow University of Technology – 1977,
  • DSc degree – Cracow University of Technology –1987,
  • Professor title – 1994,
  • Nomination as full professor – 1996.

Former scholarships:

  • Scholarship of DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch-Dienst – Universität Stuttgart, Institut für Verfahrenstechnik und Dampfkesselwesen, 1981-1982, 10 months;
  • Scholarship of Alexander von Humboldt Foundation- Universität Stuttgart, Institut für Verfahrenstechnik und Dampfkesselwesen, 1984-1985, 18 months
  •  Scholarship of Alexander von Humboldt Foundation- Universität Stuttgart, Staatliche Materialprüfungsanstalt, 1989, 6 months;
  • TEMPUS Programm, Technische Universität München, Lehrstuhl A für Thermodynamik, 1995, 2 months;
  • TEMPUS Programm, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Institut für Wärme- und Brennstofftechnik, 1995, 2 months

Positions in scientific and professional organizations:

  • member of the Council of Polish Science (2005-2008),
  • vice chairman of the Thermodynamics and Combustion Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences (2008-2010),
  • member of the Thermodynamics and Combustion Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences (since 2002 until now),
  • member of the Committee of Energy Problems of the Polish Academy of Sciences (since 2002 until now),
  • member of the Polish Association of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (since 1983 until now),
  • member of the Association of Polish Mechanical Engineers (since 1977 until now),
  •  vice-president of the Association for Education of Specialists in Construction of Power Plant Machinery (since 2003 until now),
  • Member of the scientific committees of many international and national conferences.
  • Local chair of 9th International Conference on Computational Heat and Mass Transfer, 23-26 May 2016, Cracow, Poland.

Scientific activities:

  •  inverse heat conduction problems;
  • measurement of heat flux and heat transfer coefficient;
  • ash fouling and slagging in steam boilers;
  • dynamics of large steam boilers;
  • numerical modeling o superheaters working under steady-state and unsteady conditions;
  • thermal stresses;
  • structural analysis of power engineering equipment by the Finite Element Analysis (FEM);
  • monitoring of power boilers;
  • remnant life  of pressure elements of boilers working under creep conditions.

 

List of publications:

Section Editor in R. B. Hetnarski (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Thermal Stresses, Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg New York London (2014).

Furthermore, prof. Jan Taler is author and co-author of several chapters herein:

  • Exact Solution of Inverse Heat Conduction Problems;
  • Finite Element Method in Steady-State and Transient Heat Conduction;
  • Mixed Finite Volume and Finite Element Formulation: Linear, Quadrilateral Elements;
  • Mixed Finite Volume and Finite Element Formulation: Linear, Triangular Elements;
  • Monitoring of Thermal Stresses in Pressure Components of Steam Boilers;
  • Optimum Heating of Thick Plane Wall;
  • Space- and Time-Marching Methods for One-Dimensional Inverse Heat Conduction Problems;
  • Space-Marching Method for Two-Dimensional Inverse Heat Conduction Problems;
  • Superposition Method for Multidimensional Heat Conduction Problems;
  • Superposition Method for Time-Dependent Thermal Boundary Conditions;
  • Surface-Heat Transfer Measurements Using Transient Techniques;
  • Transient Heat Conduction in Sphere.

 

  1. Taler J., Węglowski B., Taler D., Sobota T., Dzierwa P., Trojan M., Madejski P., Pilarczyk M., Determination of start-up curves for a boiler with natural circulation based on the analysis of stress distribution in critical pressure components, Energy 92 (2015), pp. 153−159.
  2. Taler J., Dzierwa P., Taler D., Harchut P., Optimization of the boiler start−up taking into account thermal stresses, Energy 92 (2015), pp. 160-170.
  3. Kanna P.R., Taler J., Anbumalar V., Kumar Santhosh A. V., Pushparaj A., Christopher D., Santosh D., Conjugate heat transfer from sudden expansion using nanofluid. Numerical Heat Transfer 67 (2015), pp. 75−99.
  4. Dzierwa P., Taler J., Optimum Heating of Pressure Vessels With Holes, Transactions of ASME Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology, Vol. 137 (2015), pp. 011202-1 − 011202-9.
  5. Cebula A., Taler J., Determination of transient temperature and heat flux on the surface of a reactor control rod based on temperature measurements at the interior points. Applied Thermal Engineering 63 (2014), pp. 158−169.
  6. Taler J., Taler D., Ludowski P., Measurements of local heat flux to membrane water walls of combustion chambers. Fuel 115 (2014), pp. 70–83.
  7. Ludowski P., Taler D., Taler J., Identification of thermal boundary conditions in heat exchangers of fluidized bed boilers. Applied Thermal Engineering 2013 (58), pp. 194−204.
  8. Taler J., Duda P., Direct and Inverse Heat Conduction Problems, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2006.
  9. J. Taler, M. Trojan, D. Taler, Monitoring of ash fouling and internal scale deposits in pulverized coal fired boilers, Nova Science Publishers, Hauppauge, USA, 2011.