**Meet the editor**

Krzysztof Biernat Ph.D. (Mech.Eng.), is a professor of the Automotive Industry Institute (PIMOT), acting as Coordinator of Polish Technology Platform for Biofuels and a member of Scientific Board. He is also the Deputy Director of Institute of Ecology and Bioethics at public University Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski in Warsaw. He represented Poland in European Technology Platform

as a member of "Mirror Group", and a member of Steering Committee of Renewable Heating and Cooling European Technology Platform and he is a member of American Council on Renewable Energy. K. Biernat is a an expert in Organization States of America and Operational Programmes: Infrastructure and Environment, Innovation Economy and Human Capital. He specializes in chemical thermodynamics of environmental processes as well as obtaining technologies, quality evaluation and use of exploitative liquids, including biofuels, and biorafinery systems. He received many national and foreign distinctions, decoration and orders for scientific and pro-innovative activities. He has been a vice-president of International Jury, World-wide Showroom of Scientific Progress and Inventiveness "Brussel's Innova - Eureka" for twenty five years. He is an author of above 200 publications in area of properties and exploitative conditionings of fuels, biofuels and other liquids as well as environmental protection. He has supervised a few dozen of master's and engineering thesis's in this area. K. Biernat has expert licence in the field of fuel and energy economy. He is also an examined lecturer of Polish Economic Society and Polish Federation of Engineering Associations. He is a member of many national and foreign scientific societies including American Chemical Society and American Association for the Advancement of Science.

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#### **Preface XI**



Chapter 9 **Environmental Aspects in the Life Cycle of Liquid Biofuels with Biocomponents, Taking into Account the Storage Process 241** Izabela Samson-Bręk, Barbara Smerkowska and Aleksandra Filip
