Our company has operated in the market since 1999. The headquarters of 'Krysztalowy Swiat®' is situated in Wieliczka, in the vicinity of Wieliczka Salt Mine – the oldest Polish salt company which origins reach back to the Middle Ages. The aforementioned mine entered the UNESCO's First World List of Cultural and Natural Heritage on 8th September 1978, together with 11 other sites from around the world.
Basing on traditions and experience of Wieliczka Salt Mine and its Underground Rehabilitation and Treatment Centre, we manufacture Salt Plates®, Salt Panels®, we design and build Crystal Salt Chambers, Salt Grottos and Salt Caves. We furthermore make interior designs using salt. We execute our orders on the highest possible level, providing our clients with efficient and prompt installation as well as certified appliances. If required all the spare parts to these appliances are in our stock. We also offer guarantee services, including after guarantee service as well as constant customer's service on demand.
We invite all interested to cooperation. All the inquiries and questions will be responded with an utmost pleasure.
From the company's life:
Crystal Salt Chamber™, Salt Plates, Salt Puzzles™, Salt Panels and other our products at the International Fair in Leipzig (07.02.-15.02.2009). Our products have aroused great interest of visitors.
„Krysztalowy Swiat®” on the 1st All-Polish SPA & Wellness Fair, which took place in Lodz between 12 and 14 August 2008. We won the first price in the exhibition stands contest.
Newsweek's Poland DIPLOMA. 1st in the world Crystal Salt Chamber restaurant made by „Krysztalowy Swiat®” won the competition organised by Newsweek Poland in the category of 'the best interior design' in 2005.
Opening of Crystal Salt Chamber restaurant – the first of it's kind object in the World, Cracow, 20.05.2005
The progenitor and investor of the following project was Grzegorz Pajdak – the Chairman of „Krysztalowy Swiat®” company. An opening ceremony was attended by numerous celebrities from Poland and abroad, among whom were: Minister of Foreign Affairs of Slovakia, world-famous opera singer Peter Dvorsky, Ambassador of Czech Republic, Consul General of Slovakia, Speaker of the Sejm – Marek Borowski, Wieliczka Salt Mine Board of Directors and many others.
Opening of exhibition of Crystal Salt Chamber in the Wieliczka Salt Mine (underground part of Salt-Works Museum in Wieliczka) – 15.05.2007.
In 2007 a ceremonial opening of Crystal Salt Chamber in the Wieliczka Salt Mine (underground part of Salt-Works Museum in Wieliczka) took place, which was attended by: Antoni Jodlowski – Director of Salt-Works Museum in Wieliczka, Representatives of Wieliczka Town Authorities and many guest from entire Poland.
Features about us:
"M jak Mieszkanie"
"Body Life"
"Solarium & Fitness"
"telegraph.co.uk"
"Gazeta Krakowska"
"Newsweek"
"Doradca Hotelarza"
Salt Grottos use - part 2nd
MAIN USESSalt Grottos basically constitute very large underground openings that provide secure containment for materials that do not dissolve salt. In general, uses of salt grottos can be classified as either storage or disposal operations. Storage of liquid and gaseous hydrocarbons, and associated products, was successful early on, and remains the main use of salt grottos today. Disposal of wastes and “by-product” constitutes the next most important use of salt caverns. Some examples of these two main types of operations follow.
Salt formations and hydrocarbon deposits, with associated refineries, often occur in the same area, e.g., the Gulf region of the U.S. and Mexico. Many grottos have been solution mined in salt domes here, both to produce brine as a “feedstock” for chemical plants, and to provide for storage of hydrocarbons. Early storage was done in brine “wells” that had been solution-mined without consideration for subsequent storage in the depleted caverns. This practice sometimes resulted in later problems for storage operations in retrofitted brine caverns. Today’s brine producers are generally aware of potential storage opportunities, and so use controlled solution mining to produce brine while also forming caverns that are suitable for storage.
A number of salt grottos have been engineered for storage of hydrocarbons and related products, over about the last three decades. The performance of these grottos constitutes a success story for bulk storage of highly volatile materials. Storage of “light hydrocarbons”, via the “brine displacement method”, represents the first and most widespread use of salt caverns worldwide. Light hydrocarbons include propane, butane, ethane, ethylene, natural gasoline, and other products extracted from refineries and natural gas that are transported and stored as liquids.
Salt grottos in Texas provided 58% of the total storage, with the Barber’s Hill dome, located about 25 miles (40 km) east of Houston at Mont Belvieu, providing 36% alone. The storage facilities concentrated here form a “market hub” for LPG in North America.
“Crude oil”, or unrefined petroleum, is also stored in brine-compensated salt grottos. The German Federal Republic implemented its strategic oil reserve in the Etzel salt dome near Wilhelmshaven between 1971 and 1978, creating a total of cavern storage volume of 13 million m3 (82 MMB). A number of these grottos have since been converted to gas storage. The U.S. began fill of its “Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR)” in salt in 1978, and continued into the early 1990’s, to attain a total of slightly less than 94 million m3 (600 MMB). The “Louisiana Offshore Oil Port (LOOP)” in the U.S. was constructed by a consortium of oil companies in 1981. LOOP oil storage is provided by 9 grottos in the Clovelly dome with a total volume of about 51 MMB (8.1 million m3).
In recent years natural gas has become a prime source of energy worldwide. Once “flared” as a by-product in oil fields, natural gas was thought to be of short supply in the mid 1970’s. It has since been discovered in relative abundance, and is considered to be a “clean burning” fuel. Consequently, most of the recent storage projects in salt grottos have involved natural gas.
Salt grottos engineered for gas storage were constructed in 1963 in Saskatchewan, Canada, at a depth of 3,700 ft (1,128 m). This was followed in the U.S. in 1970 by completion of two gas grottos in the Eminence Dome, Mississippi, at depth of 5,700 to 6,700 ft (1,737 to 2,042 m). The Eminence grottos were both deep and non brine-compensated, and thus incorporated the potential for large volume loss due to salt creep. In France, gas storage in salt began in 1970 at Tersanne, at depth of approximately 1400 to 1500+ m (4,593 to 4,921 ft). Gas storage in the salt dome Honigsee, near Kiel, Germany, began in 1971 at depth of 1307 to 1335 m (4,288 to 4,380 ft).
Additional storage facilities in salt grottos are undoubtedly now being planned or constructed because of the increasing use of natural gas worldwide. Compressed air energy storage (CAES) was implemented in Germany in 1978 in the Huntorf salt dome near Hamburg. A CAES plant was also constructed in 1991 in the McIntosh salt dome near Mobile, Alabama, U.S. CAES plants are used to meet peak power needs, and their future depends on companies now supplying both natural gas and electrical power.
The first wastes placed in salt domes were probably residues from local salt-based industries. Beginning about 1959, alkali wastes from local “soda ash” production were deposited in “worked out” caverns in the Holford brinefield located about 20 mi (32 km) south of Manchester, England. Other salt-industry related wastes, such as “brine muds” from the purification of brine, were also deposited in grottos at Holford. Similar on-site waste disposal was likely practiced at a number of other industrial plants that use locally produced brine, thus forming grottos, in production of soda ash and/or plastics. Another interesting feature of the Holford site is that organic residues generated off site have been deposited there since 1968 in special designated grottos through a partnership between the brinefield operators and a commercial waste disposal firm.
Salt caverns are now being used for disposal of oil field wastes in the U.S. At the time this paper was prepared, the State of Texas had permitted six salt caverns for disposal of non-hazardous oilfield wastes (NOW), and one cavern for naturally occurring radioactive materials (NORM). The states of Louisiana and New Mexico were also in the process of developing regulations for disposal of oil field wastes in salt grottos.
The potential for disposal of hazardous chemical wastes in salt caverns has been recognized by companies world wide. As previously noted, both liquid and gaseous hydrocarbons have been successfully stored in properly constructed salt grottos for decades, and from a technical viewpoint, this would seem to qualify salt grottos for disposal operations of materials with similar properties. However, applications to construct hazardous waste disposal facilities in salt in the U.S. have raised far more objections than have applications for storage facilities, or for more traditional forms of waste disposal, such as landfills. Disposal of hazardous wastes in salt domes is banned outright in the State of Louisiana; and, applications for disposal in salt grottos elsewhere in the U.S. have been subjected to lengthy examination.
The disposal of high-level nuclear wastes in salt grottos are not discussed here because it involves special considerations beyond those for conventional uses of caverns. It should be noted that research on disposal of nuclear wastes in salt has advanced analyses of conventional salt cavern behavior.
Source: http://www.solutionmining.org
18.09.2007. 13:35