617-0108/02 – Coal Chemistry (CHU)
| Gurantor department | Department of Chemistry | Credits | 6 |
| Subject guarantor | doc. Ing. Petr Pánek, CSc. | Subject version guarantor | prof. Ing. Václav Roubíček, CSc.,Dr.h.c. |
| Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Compulsory |
| Year | 4 | Semester | summer |
| | Study language | Czech |
| Year of introduction | 1996/1997 | Year of cancellation | 2009/2010 |
| Intended for the faculties | | Intended for study types | |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
Focus on the latest knowledge about the origin, petrography, composition, texture and properties of coal, and theoretical fundaments of its conversion processes (gasification, carbonisation and liquifaction).
Teaching methods
Summary
Coal and its position in world and czech economy. Genesis of coal, coal beds in
Czech Republic. The heterogeneous macromolecular system of coal. The industrial
processes of coal utilization. Coal in the postindustrial type of society.
Compulsory literature:
Roubíček V., Buchtele J. : Chemie uhlí a jeho využití, ES VŠB-TU Ostrava 1996
Recommended literature:
[4]Gavlas G. R.: Coal Pyrolysis, Elsevier 1992.
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
E-learning
Other requirements
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
1.Introduction. Carbon Chemistry of carbon..A brief outline of the history of coal exploitation. Coal, its present status and future in the global economy.
2. Genesis of coal. Chemistry and degradation of celullose, hemicelullose and lignin. Main coal resources - its location in the world and CR.Coal extraction. Coal for energy.
3. Coal as a heterogeneous macromolecular system.Texture and chemical structure of coal.
4.Modern methods for study of the organic part of coal. Models of the coal macromolecule.
5. Mineral substancies in coal, their origin and methods of the investigation.. Trace elements and water in coal.
6. Petrographic coal structure and methods of its determination.
7 Properties of coal versus its coalification. Technical analysis of coal. Classification of coal.
8 Coal bed methane (CBM), its extraction and perspectives of exploitation.
9. The changes in coal structure during its heating. Interaction with oxygen. Burning of coal. The process of combustion.
10.Proces coking. Properties of coke for blast furnace process. Coal tar, its composition, properties and processing procedures (current status and perspectives). Patent pitch and its industrial applications.
11Gasification of coal. Properties of fuel gas. Industrial applications and perspectives. C1 Chemistry.
12 The interaction of coal with solvents. Coal Liquefaction.
13 Co-processes. Gasification and liquefaction of coal with organic waste.
14 Perspectives for the utilization of coal as a chemical feedstock. Crisis of petrochemistry. Ecological aspects of coal use. Clean coal technologies. Coal and biotechnologies.
Conditions for subject completion
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction
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