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Acknowledgments
Thepaperspresentedherearebasedonresearchconductedbythepre-
sentauthoreitherindividuallyorincooperationwithotherscientists.They
werecarriedoutinPoznanUniversityofTechnologyandintheRoyalInstitute
ofTechnologyinStockholm(KTH)attheDepartmentofMaterialScienceand
Engineering.
TheauthorwouldliketogivehisheartfeltthanksespeciallytoProfessor
WlodzimierzBalsiakandDocentYangWeihongfromKTHStockholm.Many
thanksareduetothethendoctoralstudentsatKTH,todaydoctorsofengi-
neeringintheorderofgraduation:SimonLilie,NabilRafidi,MagnusMoert-
berg,KrishnamurthyNarayanandtomanyundergraduatestudents.
Iwouldalsoliketoexpressmygratitudetomydoctoralstudentwhoare
nowdoctorsofscience:DariuszSzewczyk,ArturŚwiderski,RafałŚlefarskiand
RadoslawJankowski.AlsotoDrPiotrSiewert,whoonceworkedatourlabora-
toryandwhograduatedatETHinZurich.
Iwouldalsoliketonotethevaluablecontributionofthecurrentdoctoral
studentsatourPoznańGasTechnologyLaboratory:JanChmielewski,Jacek
Wawrzyniak,JakubRojewski,JanSacha,PrzemysławGrzymisławski.
Thestructureofstandswouldbefarlesssatisfactoryhaditnotbeenfor
theinvaluableassistanceofourcolleagueDr.WojciechKruszewski,whofor
manyyearshadworkedwithusattheGasTechnologyLaboratoryinPoznan.I
wouldalsoliketostressthecontributionofDr.ZofiaFigas,whothroughthe
precisefinancialplanningofourresearchhasgreatlyhelpedthesuccessful
completionoftheinvestigationspresentedinthisbook.Theauthorwouldlike
topresentalotofthankstothedirectorofDr.AndrzejBarczyńskifromthe
PolishOilandGasIndustrywhoassistedintheorganizationofresearchand
hasoftenbeentheco-author.
TheinvestigationsinKTHweresponsoredbydifferentscientificandin-
dustrialorganizationsofwhichIwouldparticularlyliketostressthepartofthe
Jerenkontoret-SteelProducersAssociationandoftheSwedishNationalEn-
ergyAdministration(STEM).ThePolishpartoftheinvestigationwasfinanced
bytheGasandOilNationalPolishCompanyaswellasbytheMinistryofSci-
enceandInformationTechnology.
Inacknowledgingthecontributionofeverymentionedpersonandorgani-
zation,theauthortakeshisentireresponsibilityforerrorsandomissionsofany
sort.