Expertise
Expertise
Piotr Pręgowski has been active in the IR field since 1973. His interests include systems engineering, sensors, metrology, thermography, and imaging systems. A long-time employee of the Military University of Technology (Warsaw, Poland), where he received his MSc degree in Electronics (1970) and PhD in Optoelectronics (1985). Pręgowski started his own business, PIRS Pręgowski Infrared Services, in 1990, and currently serves as Polish consultant for the French companies ULIS and Sofradir. He is the author or co-author of over 125 academic papers, member of numerous advisory and editorial boards within the field. Pręgowski participates in the Steering Committee of Thermosense SPIE since 2004. Over the years he also received two Thermosense awards for outstanding papers (1999 and 2005: “The Kantsios Award”).
Honors and awards
Honors and awards
Polish representative of the Working Group of QIRT – European conferences on Quantitative IR Thermography (1992-1998).
Member of the advisory board of the “Opto-Electronics Review” journal (1995-1997). Long-time reviewer for “SPIE Optical Engineering”, “SPIE Journal of Electronics”, “QIRT Journal”, “Advances in Optical Engineering”, “American Association for Science and Technology (AASCIT): Engineering and Technology”, and “Photonics Letters of Poland”, and much more. Recipient of two Thermosense awards for outstanding papers (1999 and 2005 as the Kantios Award -Thermosense XXVI).
Pręgowski was also awarded by a number of international and national entities for his patented work regarding a method of the heat exchanger tubes measurements – through flames – in the process furnaces, using a thermographic camera (2004). A few of such awards include foreign e.g. the silver medal at Brussels-Eureka-Innova Energy (2007); gold medal at the Salon International des Innovations Geneve (2009), and a gold medal from Russia for innovations).
Publications
Publications
Opportunities and challenges of the application of dynamic, multispectral thermography as a means of improving the effectiveness of furnace processes in the petrochemical industry (SPIE Conference Proceeding)
Authors: P. Pregowski, G. Goleniewski, W. Komosa, W. Korytkowski
Published: 19 May 2012, Vol. 8354
Heating medium absorption and emission as factors in thermographic investigations of petrochemical furnaces (Technical Article)
Authors: P. Pregowski, G. Goleniewski, W. Komosa, W. Korytkowski, Sl. Zwolenik
Published: 22 April 2009, Vol. 7299
An empirical research in application of dynamic, multispectral-band IR thermal images for investigations of petrochemical furnaces (Technical Article)
Authors: P. Pregowski, J. Cuber, D. Babecki, P. Wiszniowski
Published: 27 September 2008, Vol.
Optoelectronic system for NO2 detection (Technical Article)
Authors: Bielecki, Zbigniew, Pregowski, Piotr, et al.
Published: 14 October 2005
New method of dynamic and multispectral thermography elaborated for inspection of petrochemical process furnaces (Technical Article)
Authors: Pregowski, Piotr, Goleniewski, Grzegorz, et al.
Published: 7 October 2005
Nighttime activity of moving objects, their mapping and statistic making, on the example of applying thermal imaging and advanced image processing to the research of nocturnal mammals (Technical Article)
Authors: Pregowski, Piotr, Owadowska, Edyta, et al.
Published: 24 September 2005
Applications of dynamic IR thermography in studying operation of heaters (Technical Article)
Authors: P. Pregowski, G. Goleniewski, W. Komosa, W. Korytkowski, Sl. Zwolenik
Published: 28 March 2005, Vol. 5782
Thermal imaging application for behavior study of chosen nocturnal animals (Technical Article)
Authors: P. Pregowski, E. Owadowska, J. Pietrzak
Published: 12 April 2004, Vol.6541
Advanced multispectral dynamic thermography as a new tool for inspection of gas-fired furnaces (Technical Article)
Authors: P. Pregowski, G. Goleniewski, W. Komosa, W. Korytkowski,
Published: 12 April 2004, Vol. 5405
Thermal effects on artwork surfaces cleaned with laser ablation method (Technical Article)
Authors: Pregowski, Piotr, Marczak, Jan, et al.
Published: 9 October 2003
Study of thermal effects on artwork surfaces cleaned with laser ablation method (Technical Article)
Authors: P. Pregowski, J. Marczak, A. Koss
Published: 1 April 2003, Vol.5073
Comparison of thermal signatures of a mine buried in mineral and organic soils (Technical Article)
Authors: Lamorski, K., Pregowski, Piotr, et al.
Published: 18 October 2001
Spectral analysis of radiant signals in processes of tele-thermodetection (Technical Article)
Authors: Pregowski, Piotr
Published: 23 March 2001
Buried mine and soil temperature prediction by numerical model (Technical Article)
Authors: Pregowski, Piotr, Swiderski, Waldemar, et al.
Published: 22 August 2000
Comparison method in IR thermal detection of buried mines (Technical Article)
Authors: Pregowski, Piotr, Swiderski, Waldemar
Published: 4 September 1998
The comparison of thermal signatures of a mine buried in mineral and organic soils
Authors: K. Lamorski, P. Pręgowski, W. Świderski, R. Walczak
Published: 8 October 2001, at Proc.the SPIE, AeroSense Conf. on the “Detection and Remediation Technologies for Mines and Mine-like Targets”, Orlando, 16-20 April 2001
Role of time and space variability of moisture density and sand for thermal detection of buried objects – modeling and experiments
Authors: P. Pręgowski, W Świderski, W.T. Walczak, B. Usowicz
Published: 19 March 1999, Vol. 3700
Using of comparison method in IR Thermal detection of buried mines
Authors: P. Pręgowski, W. Świderski
Published: April, 1998, Vol.3392
Detection of minefields using IR sensing and time-domain treatment method
Authors: P. Pregowski, W. Swiderski
Published: Proc. Conf.:”Detection and Remediation Technologies for Mines and Mine-like Targets”, Proc. of SPIE, Vol. 3079
Comparison method in IR thermal detection of buried mines
Authors: P. Pregowski, W. Swiderski
Published: Detection and Remediation Technologies for Mines and Minelike Targets III, Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 3392, 1996, 1241-1248
Conference involvement
Conference involvement
Thermosense: Thermal Infrared Applications XXXVIII
Thermosense: Thermal Infrared Applications XXXVII
Thermosense: Thermal Infrared Applications XXXVI
Thermosense: Thermal Infrared Applications XXXV
Detectors and Associated Signal Processing V
Thermosense: Thermal Infrared Applications XXXIV
Detectors and Associated Signal Processing IV
Thermosense: Thermal Infrared Applications XXXIII
Thermosense XXXII
Thermosense XXXI
Detectors and Associated Signal Processing
Thermosense XXX
Thermosense XXIX
Thermosense XXVIII
Detectors and Associated Signal Processing II
Thermosense XXVII
Thermosense XXVI
Thermosense XXV