636-3038/01 – Materials for use in the petroleum industry (MPRP)
| Gurantor department | Department of Material Engineering | Credits | 4 |
| Subject guarantor | doc. Ing. Petra Váňová, Ph.D. | Subject version guarantor | doc. Ing. Petra Váňová, Ph.D. |
| Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Choice-compulsory type B |
| Year | 2 | Semester | winter |
| | Study language | Czech |
| Year of introduction | 2020/2021 | Year of cancellation | 2022/2023 |
| Intended for the faculties | HGF | Intended for study types | Bachelor |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
Student is able to:
- Explain the principal concepts of thermodynamics and their importance in materials study;
- Outline basic processes – solidification and solid phase transformations – in one-component systems;
- Differentiate the behaviour of two-component systems and describe eutectic, eutectoid, peritectic and peritectoid reactions;
- Analyse more complicated binary systems and binary systems with intermediate phases;
- Outline the behaviour of both metastable and stable iron – carbon system and deduce properties of typical alloys.
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Summary
Thermodynamic principles of solid substances; one-component systems ; binary systems – eutectic, eutectoid, peritectic, peritectoid reaction; systems with intermediate phases; iron – carbon system. Principles of materials degradation mechanisms. Materials for use in oil and gas industries and related branches.
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Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
Continuous verification of learning outcomes:
full-time study form - 2 written tests, 2 written programs during the semester;
combined study form - 1 semestral project.
Final verification of study results:
written exam.
E-learning
Other requirements
There are no further requirements.
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
1. Fundamentals of thermodynamics of solids; systems, components, phases; states of thermodynamic systems; Gibbs phase law.
2. Internal structure of solids, crystal structure failures.
3. One-component systems; solid state solidification, critical nucleation size (stable, unstable nucleation), homogeneous vs. solid state heterogeneous nucleation; solid state phase transformations.
4. Two-component systems and their equilibrium diagrams, basic types - system with unlimited solid solubility, system with eutectic, peritectic reaction; system with eutectoid reaction.
5. More complex two-component systems with solid state phase transformations and intermediate phases.
6. Iron-carbon system (Fe-C); metastable, stable diagram; basic types of reactions; phase description of the metastable diagram.
7. Basic structures in metastable Fe-C system; calculations of phase and structure composition in metastable Fe-C system.
8. Stable Fe-C system, differences from metastable system; graphitic cast iron, classification, basic characteristics.
9. Phase transformations of austenite during cooling - diffusion and partially diffusion transformations, basic characteristics of ferrite, pearlite, bainite.
10. Phase transformations of austenite during cooling - diffusionless transformations; basic characteristics of martensite.
11. Basic types of failure of technical materials - ductile, brittle failure. Methods of assessing the resistance of materials to brittle failure. Defects in materials - crack growth mechanisms, critical crack size; Griffith criterion, Griffith-Orowan criterion. Fracture toughness.
12. Basic mechanisms of degradation of materials in the oil industry - hydrogen embrittlement, sulphide stress cracking.
13. Mechanisms of hydrogen embrittlement, hydrogen traps, diffusion of hydrogen in materials, influence of basic factors on hydrogen embrittlement.
14. Methods of testing the resistance of materials to hydrogen embrittlement.
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