Range of activities:
- evaluation via laboratory and engine tests of physicochemical and practical operational properties acc. to most recent testing procedures, both European and American:
» of liquid fuels, biofuels and bio-components,
» of lubricants, including: engine, gear and industrial oils, both fresh and used, - full range of services in the field of modern planning and monitoring the properties of lubricating oils in operation, including assessment of changes occurring in them, advice and expert opinions in the field of using oils of improper quality or their improper use;
- wide range of bench tests of the tribological properties of fuels, lubricants or hydraulic fluids;
- evaluation of octane and cetane numbers in engine tests acc. to European and American procedures;
- the only in Poland assessments of the practical-operational properties of engine fuels acc. to pan-European engine tests developed by the CEC and required, inter alia, by the Worldwide Fuel Charter;
- compatibility assessments of additives to fuels and lubricating oils, expert services in the field of operational problems related to incompatibility of the aforementioned products;
- assessments of the practical-operational properties of fuels and lubricating oils in operational tests;
- expert services in the field of the impact of fuel quality on the possibilities of dysfunctions and damages to engine fuel injection systems;
- studies on processes of regeneration of Diesel Particulate Filters (DPF) on a motor stand, advice in the field of operation of exhaust systems equipped with DPFs.
Head: Professor Zbigniew Stepien
Address: 1 Łukasiewicza Str., 31-429 Cracow, POLAND
Phone: +48 12 617 75 78
Fax: +48 12 617 75 86, +48 12 617-75-22
E-mail: zbigniew.stepien@inig.pl