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Ecology of Industrial Enterprices

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 361-0344/11
Abbreviation EPP
Course title Ecology of Industrial Enterprices
Credits 4
Coordinating department Department of Power Engineering
Course coordinator Ing. Petr Pavlík, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Ecology, definition of terms, historical context - defining the terms of ecology, types of ecological fields, focus on the ecology of an industrial enterprise
2. Energy management - methods of energy management, economic tools
3. Tools for energy management - energy audit, energy characteristics and use of consumption standards
4. Water management of an industrial enterprise - water management in general (definition, objectives), water management of an industrial enterprise, water management systems
5. Solid fuels - definition, division, chemical and physical properties
6. Combustion equipment for solid fuels - combustion equipment for solid fuels, calculation of emission factors for combustion equipment for solid fuels
7. Liquid fuels - definition, division, chemical and physical properties, production of liquid fuels
8. Combustion equipment for liquid fuels - combustion equipment for liquid fuels, calculation of emission factors for combustion equipment for solid fuels
9. Gaseous fuels - definition, division, chemical and physical properties, extraction of primary gaseous fuels, methods of production of secondary gaseous fuels
10. Combustion equipment for gaseous fuels - combustion equipment for gaseous fuels, calculation of emission factors for combustion equipment for gaseous fuels
11. Transport and storage of gaseous fuels - gas industry, transport and storage of gaseous fuels, strategic reserves of gaseous fuels
12. Waste management - definition of the term waste and waste management, focus on industrial and hazardous waste, waste management methods
13. Legislation in the field of waste management - complete legislative framework for waste management, obligations of the generator and waste collector/processor, sanctions

E-learning

Study materials (study materials in complete text form + lecture presentations in PDF format) available on Moodle.

Literature

BEGON, Michael; TOWNSEND, Colin R. a HARPER, John L. Ecology: from individuals to ecosystems. 4th ed. Malden: Blackwell, 2006. ISBN 1-4051-1117-8.
LEE, C. C. a LIN, Shundar (ed.). Handbook of environmental engineering calculations. 2nd ed. McGraw-Hill handbooks. New York: McGraw-Hill, c2007. ISBN 978-0-07-147583-9.
PETERS, Greg a SVANSTRÖM, Magdalena. Environmental sustainability for engineers and applied scientists. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2019. ISBN 978-1-107-16682-0 .

Advised literature

Handbook of Biomass Combustion and Co-Firing. Sjaak van Loo and Jaap Koppejan (eds.) Twente University Press. ISBN 9036517737
Yearbooks of the Ministry of the Environment of the Czech Republic
Internet sources:
www.iea.org or www.iea-ccc.org