room 121 (building H6) phone (71) 320-36-55 anna.siekierka@pwr.edu.pl

Scientific background

• Electro-membrane processes: capacitive deionization (CDI), electrodialysis (ED), CapMix
• Energy generation, desalination
• Lithium recovery, Li-Na separation, Li-Co separation, Li-Ni separation
• Selectivity
• Polymeric membranes, ion exchange membranes and their characteristics
• Surface modification: chemically and plasma
• Selective inorganic adsorbents based on manganese, titanium and iron oxides
• Needle and needleless electrospinning
• Nanofibrous membranes
• Oil-water separation
• 3D modelling

Projects

• POLISH-TURKISH BILATERAR PROJECT (GEO4FOOD), Water-Energy-Food Nexus - geothermal water for agriculture, NCBR, 10.2020-12.2021, research assistant
• „Cost effective technology to recover, purify and reintroduce spent metal ions towards a sustainable battery market”, Institute for Frontier Materials, Deakin University Waurn Ponds, Geelong, Australia, 08.2019-08.2020, Associate Research Fellow, Electro-Membrane Separations
• “Geothermal waters management: energy recovery and water production”, NCBR, 03.2019-02.2020, research assistant
• “Synthesis and characterization of inorganic multicomponent adsorbents for selective extraction lithium salts by Hybrid Capacitive Deionization (HCDI), NCN, 02.2018-02.2019 – principal investigation
• Functional polymeric materials, EIT+, 09.2013-07.2014, research assistant

Publications

• Ali, A., Quist-Jensen, C.A., Jorgensen, M.K., Siekierka, A., Christensen, M.L., Bryjak, M., Hélix-Nielsen, Drioli, E., A review of membrane crystallization, forward osmosis and membrane capacitive deionization for liquid mining, Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 2020, 105273
• Siekierka, K. Smolińska-Kempisty, M. Bryjak, Charge-doped electrodes for power production using the salinity gradient in CapMix, Desalination 495 (2020) 114670
• K. Smolińska-Kempisty, A. Siekierka, M. Bryjak, Interpolymer ion exchange membranes for CapMix process, Desalination 482 (2020) 114384
• Siekierka, Lithium iron manganese oxide as an adsorbent for capturing lithium ions in hybrid capacitive deionization with different electrical modes, Separation and Purification Technology 236 (2020) 116234
• Siekierka, M. Bryjak, Novel anion exchange membrane for concentration of lithium salt in hybrid capacitive deionization, Desalination 452 (2019) 279-289
• Siekierka, B. Tomaszewska, M. Bryjak, Lithium capturing from geothermal water by hybrid capacitive deionization, Desalination 436 (2018) 8-14
• Siekierka, J. Kujawa, W. Kujawski, M. Bryjak, Lithium dedicated adsorbent for the preparation of electrodes useful in the ion pumping method, Separation and Purification Technology 194 (2018) 231-238
• Yalcinkaya, A. Siekierka, M. Bryjak, Surface modification of electrospun nanofibrous membranes for oily wastewater separation, RSC Advances 7:89 (2017) 56704-56712