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Terminated in academic year 2021/2022

Chemistry in Energy Industry

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 361-0522/03
Abbreviation PCHE
Course title Chemistry in Energy Industry
Credits 4
Coordinating department Department of Power Engineering
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Zbyszek Szeliga, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Introduction, emissions from energy sources, their transformation in the atmosphere and the impact on the environment.
2. Stoichiometric calculations (in relation to the combustion and emissions).
3. Solutions, dissociation
4. thermochemistry
5. Chemical kinetics and equilibrium
6. Redox equations and electrochemical processes
7. Chemical processes formation and destruction of SO2, NOx and other pollutants.
8. Methods of primary and secondary reduction of emissions in the flue gas, a description of current technology solutions.
9. Flue gas desulfurization - wet method
10. Flue gas desulfurization - wet method, semi-dry method.
11. Flue gas desulfurization - dry additive method of desulphurization in fluidized beds.
12. Methods for flue gas denitrification SNCR, SCR.
13. Analytical methods in the energy sector
14. Emission analyzers.

Literature

Karl B. SCHNELLE, Jr. and Charles A. BROWN. Air Pollution Control Technology Handbook. Apple Academic Press Inc., 2015. ISBN13 (EAN): 9781482245608.

Advised literature

BUECKER Brad. Power Plant Chemistry. PennWell Books, 1997. ISBN13 (EAN): 9780878146192.
LAINCHBURY, Ann; STEPHENS, John; THOMPSON, Alec. ILPAC. Chemical energetics. John Murray, 1995. ISBN 0719553326 , 9780719553325.