doc. Ing. Dušan Oráč, PhD.
Associate Professor, Director of the Institute
Workplace: Main building, A-block, 4. floor, room number A427
Tel: (+421) 055 / 602 24 28
Email: dusan.orac@tuke.sk
Orcid ID: 0000-0003-0392-8544
Web of Science ResearcherID: AAI-1686-2019
2021 – present | Director of the Institute |
2014 – present | Associate Professor |
2009 – 2014 | Assistant Professor |
2007 – 2010 | PhD. |
2002 – 2007 | Master's study |
1994 – 2002 | Gymnazium Jána Amosa Komenského, Košice |
Scientific activities
- Web of Science:
- h-index = 7
- Number of publications: 16
- Number of citations: 374
- SCOPUS:
- h-index = 8
- Number of publications: 25
- Number of citations: 483
National projects
- UNIVNET – University and Industrial Research and Educational Platform of the Recycling Society, Research on battery recycling, 2020 – 2022.
- Treatment of industrial wastes based on zinc, tin and lead to obtain marketable products - RECWAZ (APVV-14-0591), member of the research team, duration 2015 – 2019.
- Material recycling of sorted components of municipal waste containing metals. Scientific Grant Agency of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Slovak Republic and SAS (VEGA)(VEGA) VEGA 1/0724/17, zodpovedný riešiteľ, duration 2017 – 2019.
- 2014 - 2016: Material waste recycling with critical materials content, scientific grant agency, Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of SR and Slovak Academy of Science, (VEGA) 1/0293/14
- 2011 - 2013: Treatment and recycling of steel-making dust with heavy non-ferrous metals content, project VEGA MŠ SR 1/0123/11.
- Complex processing of primary and secondary raw materials in order to obtain useful components, especially non-ferrous metals, Scientific Grant Agency of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Slovak Republic and SAS (VEGA) 1/0087/08, member of the research team, duration 2008 - 2010.
- 2006 - 2009: Utilizable substances recovery by effective aluminium by-products treatment – aluminium drosses, Project APVV
International projects
- Horizon 2020 – Research and Innovation Framework Programme: H2020-SC5-2016-OneStageB, member of the research team, duration 2016 – 2019.
- ReCoMet – Research Cooperation Metal Recycling, funded by BMBF (Federal Ministery of Education and Research) call within the framework of the Federal Government’s Strategy for the Internationalization of Science and Research in the funding program “Establishment and Expansion of Joint Research Structures in Europe”, member of the research team, 2015 – 2017.
- Recycling of printed circuit boards from used consumer equipment, Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst a MŠVVaŠ SR, member of the research team, year 2015.
- Treatment of printed circuit boards, Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst a MŠVVaŠ SR, member of the research team, year 2012.
Pedagogical activity
- Secondary Raw Materials and Waste
- Hydrometallurgical processes
- Precious and Rare Metals
- Recycling Technologies
Seminars and courses
- Padagogical course (the IGIP engineering education model)
- WISE – TC 2 - Substance Cycle waste management, 09. – 14. March 2008, Monschau, Germany.
Awards
- EKO 2011 – 3. miesto v národnom kole v kategórií: „Organizácie a zamestnanci organizácií“
- Best doctoral thesis in the framework of the "Week of science in Slovakia in the year 2008" at the Technical University in Košice, Slovakia
Stays abroad
- Exchange program of the Ministry of education, science, research and sport SR, Slovak Academy of Sciences and the German Academic Exchange service, (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst– DAAD), RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, 19.10. – 18.11. 2015.
- Exchange program of the Ministry of education, science, research and sport SR, Slovak Academy of Sciences and the German Academic Exchange service, (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst– DAAD), RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, 01.10 – 31.10 2012
- Erasmus mobility of teachers, National Technical University of Athens/ School of Mining and Metallurgical Engineering, Atény, Grécko, 06. – 17. 09. 2010
- WISE – TC 2 – Substance Cycle Waste Management, 09. – 14. 04. 2008, Monschau, Germany.
Other professional activity
Membership
- President of the association Slovak Iron Trail – from 2019
- Vice-president of the Association of Mining Societies and Guilds of Slovakia – from 2022
- President of the associacion Mining and Metallurgical Guilt in Kosice – from 2020
- WASTE – Secondary Raw Materials 5, International conference, Liptovský Ján, jún 2013, Slovak Republic
- 6th International Conference Kammel´s Quo Vadis Hydrometallurgy 6, Herlany, jún 2012, Slovenská republika - member of the Organizing Committee
- 5th International Conference Kammel’s Quo Vadis Hydrometallurgy 5, Herľany, máj 2008, Slovenská republika – member of the Organizing Committee
- International conference: Recycling of spent portable batteries and accumulators, 21. – 24. April 2009, Sklene Teplice, Slovakia.
- Cechovácia KNKaSO/IRT - Permanent member of the Organizing Committee and active participation as the Famous High and Infallible Presidium (from 2007 to the present)
Publishing activities
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actualized: 7.7.2022