Welcome to the website of the journal Paliva ("Fuels"). The journal is Open Access, with articles published under CC BY 4.0 license. The journal is issued online only.

Paliva journal is open not only to researchers but also for technicians and other professionals working in plants, refineries, power stations, gasworks and companies processing, handling or trading both fossil and alternative fuels. The aim of the journal is to share information between professional research organizations and users of research results.

Since 2010 the journal Paliva (Fuels) is included in the list of recognized peer-reviewed journals, issued by the Research, Development and Innovation Council of the government of the Czech Republic. Amongst other requirements that must be met to be a member of the group of journals, all papers published in the journal undergo a review process by two independent reviewers. We sincerely hope you become regular readers of the journal and perhaps contributors in its future issues.

Paliva (Fuels) included in Scopus database

In 2019, when Paliva celebrated its 10th anniversary, the journal was succesfully evaluated and included in Scopus. Paliva is the only periodical in its research field published in the Czech Republic indexed by Scopus database. Since then, we expect further increase of the quality of published papers and greater proportion of papers written in English. It is also an oncoming opportunity for new authors from both industry and academic sphere.

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Paliva (Fuels) Journal included in CAS databases

We are proud to annouce that Paliva (Fuels) Journal was successfully evaluated by Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) and included to the CAS databases among more than 10 thousand scientific journals worldwide. Starting with the 2015 issues, CAS collects bibliographic information and abstracts of articles issued by Fuels, which makes the access to the findings published in the journal substantially easier for scientists and field specialists from over the world.

Current issue:

Properties and Analysis of Solid Alternative Fuels

Selenite removal from water using a polymer/hydrated iron oxide composites

The removal of selenite (SeO₃^2-) was investigated using a new polymer/ hydrated iron oxide composites. These composites may have potential applications in reducing or entirely eliminating selenite from contaminated drinking water or industrial wastewaters, especially those from flue gas desulphurization. Commercially available ion exchange resins were irreversibly impregnated by hydrated iron oxide to increase selenite removal from model water solutions simulated contaminated drinking water containing various accompanying anions such as nitrates and sulfates, that may affect the sorption of selenite. By batch experiments the effect of the accompanying ions and pH of the input model water solutions on the selenite removal was investigated. The results of the measurements show that the most suitable sorbents for the removal of selenite from aqueous solutions are macroporous sorbents, which contained more hydrated iron oxide in their structure and thus showed higher selenite removal efficiency than gelular composites. It was found that the prepared composites achieved the highest efficiency of removed selenite at low pH, whereas the optimum pH for commercially available sorbents was in the neutral range. Reduced selenite removal efficiencies from the solution were primarily observed for macroporous composites in the presence of sulfates, either alone or when mixed with nitrates.

Peat processing into composite fuel

The paper presents a study of processing peat into fuel. The drying kinetics of composite raw materials based on peat, aged silt deposits, solid peat residues after extraction and corn crop residues were determined. The dependence of the drying optimization criterion on the moisture content of the material is investigated, which substantiates the effectiveness of the selected drying modes for composite raw materials. The heat of combustion of the composite raw material was determined, which is about 1.4 times higher than that of peat. Composite biofuel, as well as its components, were investigated using the methods of differential thermal analysis, which showed the temperature intervals and rate of dehydration, thermal decomposition of organic and mineral substances.