635-2049/01 – Energy by-products (VEP)
| Gurantor department | Department of Thermal Engineering | Credits | 7 |
| Subject guarantor | Ing. Michaela Topinková, Ph.D. | Subject version guarantor | Ing. Michaela Topinková, Ph.D. |
| Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Compulsory |
| Year | 3 | Semester | winter |
| | Study language | Czech |
| Year of introduction | 2023/2024 | Year of cancellation | |
| Intended for the faculties | FMT | Intended for study types | Bachelor |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
Student will be able to:
- define traditional bonding systems
- use theoretical and practical knowledge about waste products from the energy industry (in particular slag and fly ash)
- evaluate other possible use of secondary raw materials on the basis their properties
- define alkali activated materials and geopolymers and their use
Teaching methods
Lectures
Seminars
Individual consultations
Tutorials
Summary
Production technology of main types of traditional bonding systems. Implementation into building materials. Classification of secondary raw materials. The origin and properties of secondary raw materials. Their possible application. Alkali activated materials and geopolymers. Principle of geopolymerization.
Compulsory literature:
Recommended literature:
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
Written test and oral exam.
E-learning
Other requirements
Attendance on excurions in producing plants.
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
• Traditional bonding systems – plaster, lime, cement. Raw materials, production
• Cement – hydration, properties, use
• Implementation into building materials – concretes, castables, aerated concretes
• Secondary raw materials from energy processes and their classification
• The origin of secondary raw materials, production technology of particular thermal processes
• Characteristics, chemical and physical properties of secondary raw materials
• Testing methods
• Use of secondary raw materials, possibility of their recycling
• Alkali activated materials – definition, classification, use, properties
• Alkali activators – sodium silicate, sodium silicate solid, sodium hydroxide
• Geopolymers – definition, structure, use, properties
• Geopolymerization – principle
• Geopolymeric cements and concretes
Conditions for subject completion
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction