361-0522/04 – Chemistry in Energy Industry (PCHE)
| Gurantor department | Department of Power Engineering | Credits | 4 |
| Subject guarantor | doc. Ing. Zbyszek Szeliga, Ph.D. | Subject version guarantor | doc. Ing. Zbyszek Szeliga, Ph.D. |
| Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Compulsory |
| Year | 1 | Semester | summer |
| | Study language | English |
| Year of introduction | 2017/2018 | Year of cancellation | 2022/2023 |
| Intended for the faculties | FS | Intended for study types | Follow-up Master |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
The course deals with the basic chemical processes in energy generation, combustion processes, further then alternative energy sources.
The course is focused on the description and understanding of the basic
chemical processes in the operation of selected devices and their environmental impact, and the process of minimizing harmful influences.
Students after completing the course will be able to:
- solve balance calculations in relation to the combustion process, balance calculations for emissions reduction technology, design and evaluate reduction of emissions.
- solve the thermochemical calculations,
- working with the concepts heat of reaction, chemical equilibrium, chemical potential, kinetics of chemical reactions.
- selecting and operating methods to minimize emissions specific energy sources.
The subsequent application of specific knowledge in practice is in the course working with the thematic combustion, formation of gaseous emission, processes to minimize emissions (SO2, NOx and other pollutants) from the flue gas, primary and secondary methods of emissions reducing in the flue gas.
For the understanding of the current technologies of flue gas cleaning and application of this knowledge, the student is familiar with descriptions of the methods, descriptions of current technology solutions for desulfurization and denitrification.
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Summary
The course deals with the basic chemical processes in energy generation, combustion processes, further then alternative energy sources.
The course is focused on the description and understanding of the basic
chemical processes in the operation of selected devices and their environmental impact, and the process of minimizing harmful influences.
Students after completing the course will be able to:
- solve balance calculations in relation to the combustion process, balance calculations for emissions reduction technology, design and evaluate reduction of emissions.
- solve the thermochemical calculations,
- working with the concepts heat of reaction, chemical equilibrium, chemical potential, kinetics of chemical reactions.
- selecting and operating methods to minimize emissions specific energy sources.
The subsequent application of specific knowledge in practice is in the course working with the thematic combustion, formation of gaseous emission, processes to minimize emissions (SO2, NOx and other pollutants) from the flue gas, primary and secondary methods of emissions reducing in the flue gas.
For the understanding of the current technologies of flue gas cleaning and application of this knowledge, the student is familiar with descriptions of the methods, descriptions of current technology solutions for desulfurization and denitrification.
Compulsory literature:
Karl B. SCHNELLE, Jr. and Charles A. BROWN. Air Pollution Control Technology Handbook. Apple Academic Press Inc., 2015. ISBN13 (EAN): 9781482245608.
Recommended literature:
BUECKER Brad. Power Plant Chemistry. PennWell Books, 1997. ISBN13 (EAN): 9780878146192.
LAINCHBURY, Ann; STEPHENS, John; THOMPSON, Alec. ILPAC. Chemical energetics. John Murray, 1995. ISBN 0719553326, 9780719553325.
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
E-learning
Other requirements
Another demands for student are not.
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
1. Introduction, emissions from energy sources, their transformation in the atmosphere and the impact on the environment.
2. Stoichiometric calculations (in relation to the combustion and emissions).
3. Solutions, dissociation
4. thermochemistry
5. Chemical kinetics and equilibrium
6. Redox equations and electrochemical processes
7. Chemical processes formation and destruction of SO2, NOx and other pollutants.
8. Methods of primary and secondary reduction of emissions in the flue gas, a description of current technology solutions.
9. Flue gas desulfurization - wet method
10. Flue gas desulfurization - wet method, semi-dry method.
11. Flue gas desulfurization - dry additive method of desulphurization in fluidized beds.
12. Methods for flue gas denitrification SNCR, SCR.
13. Analytical methods in the energy sector
14. Emission analyzers.
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