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Classification of Transported Materials

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 342-6506/03
Abbreviation IDH
Course title Classification of Transported Materials
Credits 4
Coordinating department Institute of Transport
Course coordinator prof. Ing. Aleš Slíva, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

Program of lectures and exercises.

1. Logistics of transport and handling equipment.
2. Classification of transported materials.
3. Criteria for choosing the transport or process system for the transported
materials.
4. Classification of materials according to FEM standard, descriptive
quantities, influence on the flow and course of pressure.
5 Principles of measuring the properties of transported materials. Equipment and devices.
6. Disorders of the flow of transported materials.
7. Static and dynamic vault. Mass and core flow of material.
8. Application of transported material in the construction of transport, process and storage facilities.
9. Pressing of transported materials.
10. Pneumatic and hydraulic transport.
11. Procedure for design of crushers and mills, theory of crushing,
degradation and compression, granulation of transported material.
12. Criteria for selecting a suitable conveyor and transport system for the transported material, monitored demands placed on transport.
13. Innovations in the field of transported material, development trends, the situation in the Czech Republic in comparison with the EU.
14. Recapitulation of basic identification features of material classification.

Literature

Keshava Chanda Arora, Vikas V. Shinde. Aspects of Materials Handling. Firewall Media, 2007.Brown, R.: Principles of Powder Mechanics, Pergamon, UK, 1970.
Mulcahy, D., E. Materials Handling Handbook. McGraw-Hill, 1999 - Technology & Engineering.

Advised literature

INternational Journals: Granularmater, Schütgut, bukl-Solids-handling, Bulk–Solids, Powder Technology etc.
Wohlbier, R., H.: Bulk Handling in Open Mines and Quarries, 1986, ISBN 0878490655 .