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Chemistry in Energy Industry

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction English
Code 361-0522/06
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 environmental impact.
2. Chemical processes of formation and disposal of SO2, NOx and other pollutants from fossil fuel combustion processes and energy recovery.
3. Methods of primary and secondary emission reduction in flue gas, description of current technological solutions.
4. Stoichiometric calculations (in relation to fossil fuel combustion and emissions).
5. Thermochemical calculations.
6. Solutions, dissociation. Chemical kinetics and equilibrium.
7. Flue gas desulphurisation - wet lime method (chemism, technological solutions).
8. Flue gas desulphurisation - semi-dry methods.
9. Flue gas desulfurization - dry additive desulphurisation method in fluidized bed boilers.
10. Methods of denitrification of flue gas SNCR.
11. Flue gas denitrification SCR.
12. Analytical methods in power engineering
13. Emission analyzers, functional principles.
14. Corrosion

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.