617-0809/01 – Fuel Technology (TP)
| 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 | Choice-compulsory |
| Year | 2 | Semester | winter |
| | Study language | Czech |
| Year of introduction | 2004/2005 | Year of cancellation | 2016/2017 |
| Intended for the faculties | FMT | Intended for study types | Follow-up Master |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
The main goals are to present for students the recent state in technologies of solid, liquid and gaseous fuel processing and perspectives and the utilization of fuels as chemical and energy resources.
Teaching methods
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Experimental work in labs
Summary
Theoretical fundamentals of the fuels technology. Current processes and their innovation, use of the main classes of fuel in the energetics, chemical industry, metallurgy and other industries. New processing technology and fuel utilization. Environmental protection issues in fuel technology.
Compulsory literature:
1) Speight, J.G.: Chemistry and Technology of Petroleum. CRC/Taylor&Francis 2007
2) Berkowitz,N.: An introduction to coal technology. Academic Press 1994
Recommended literature:
1) Krevelen, D.W. van. Coal : typology, physics, chemistry, constitution. 3.vydání. Elsevier 1993
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 and basic concept. Renewable and nonrenewable energy sources. Development and perspectives of fuel industry.
2. Origin of caustobioliths, review of theoretical approaches. History of caustobioliths utilization. Present status and perspective of caustobiolith extraction (CR and world).
3. Coal technologies. Carbonization. Carbonization chemistry, kinetics and dynamics of the coking process. Link between carbonization conditions and characteristics of products.
4.Gasification of coal. Syngas. Reactors for gasification. C1- chemistry.
5. Coal liquefaction. The theory of dissolution of the coal substance. Extraction and degradation of coal. Direct and indirect liquefaction, history and perspective.
6 Coal for energy production. Co-processing, co-pyrolysis of coal ( waste treatment)and its perspective. 7. Crude oil. Mining, basic processing, transport and storage. Composition of crude oil and petroleum classification. Oil and the environment. Biological degradation of petroleum and petroleum derivatives.
8. Chemistry of methods in oil processing. Petrochemicals. Cracking and refining of petroleum fractions.
9. Refined products from crude oil. The production of fuels and lubricants. Fuel combustion in diesel and gasoline engines. Heating oil. Asphalt.
10. Alternative fuels. Bituminous sands and kerogen rocks.
11.Gaseous fuels (natural gas, CBM, hydrogen). Gaseous fuels in transportation.
12. Renewable fuels. Biofuels.
13 Fuel cells. Principle, current status in usage and perspective for energy recovery.
14. Ecological and economic aspects of fuel production. The issue of carbon dioxide sequestration. Clean Coal Technology.
Conditions for subject completion
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Assessment of instruction
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