617-0408/02 – Coal Chemistry (CHU)
| Gurantor department | Department of Chemistry | Credits | 6 |
| Subject guarantor | doc. Ing. Petr Pánek, CSc. | Subject version guarantor | doc. Ing. Petr Pánek, CSc. |
| Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Compulsory |
| Year | 3 | Semester | summer |
| | Study language | Czech |
| Year of introduction | 2012/2013 | Year of cancellation | 2016/2017 |
| Intended for the faculties | FMT | Intended for study types | Bachelor |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
Providing information on current views on the origin and composition of coal, principles of coal technologies and clarifying the importance of coal to modern society.
Teaching methods
Lectures
Tutorials
Experimental work in labs
Summary
Structure and origin of coal, coalification process, properties, coal utilization and its environmental aspects.
Regular instruction in Czech. Individual consulting and examination may be taken in English.
Compulsory literature:
1) Berkowitz,N.: An introduction to coal technology. Academic Press 1994
Recommended literature:
1) Speight,J.G.: Handbook of Coal Analysis.Wiley- Interscience 2005
2) Berkowitz,N.: An introduction to coal technology. Academic Press 1994
Additional study materials
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
E-learning
Other requirements
There are no additional requirements for students.
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
1.Introduction to the chemistry of coal. Chemistry of carbon. A brief outline of the history of coal exploitation. Coal, its current status and the future in the global economy.
2. Origin of coal. Major world resources. Extraction of coal in CR.
3 Coal as a heterogeneous macromolecular system. Texture and chemical
structure of coal.
4.Modern methods of investigation of the organic part in coal. Models of the coal macromolecule.
5 Mineral parts of coal, their origin and methods of study. Trace elements and water in coal.
6 Coal petrography and methods of its determination.
7 Relationship between properties and rank. Proximate and ultimate analysis of coal.
Classification of coals.
8 Coal bed methane (CBM), its extraction and utilization
9 The behavior of coal during its pyrolysis. Interaction with oxygen, combustion and self-combustion.
10 Coking process. Properties of coke for blast furnace process. Coal tar,
its composition, properties and processing procedures (current status and perspectives).
11 Gasification of coal. Industrial applications and perspectives. C1- chemistry.
12 The interaction of coal with solvents. Coal Liquefaction.
13 Co-processes.Co-gasification and co-liquefaction of coal with organic waste.
14 Prospects for the use of coal as a chemical feedstock. Crisis of crude oil.Ecological and economic aspects of coal utilization. Coal and bioetechnology.
Laboratory:
1. Introduction and safety work in the laboratory.
2. Proximate analysis of coal (moisture, ash, volatile matter)
3. Determination of thermoplastic properties of coal (free swelling test, Roga test, Gieseler Plastometer test, dilatometry)
4. Determination of density and water content
5. Petrographic analysis (combined maceral and microlithotype analysis, reflectance measurements)
6.Termogravimetric analysis
7 Determination of heating value of coal
8 Determination of swelling properties of coal
9 Isolation of humic substances from low rank coal
10 Characterization of humic substances (elemental analysis, IR, 1H NMR, VPO)
11 Isolation of maltenes from coal extract.
12 Chromatographic fractination of maltenes using SARA -method (elemental analysis, IR, 1H NMR, VPO)
13 Excursion to the coking plant (coal service)
14 Excursion to the department for testing of coal dust explosibility (spontaneous combustion and explosibility)
Conditions for subject completion
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction