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Terminated in academic year 2022/2023

Coal Petrology

Type of study Doctoral
Language of instruction Czech
Code 541-0973/02
Abbreviation PU
Course title Coal Petrology
Credits 10
Coordinating department Department of Geological Engineering
Course coordinator prof. Ing. Martin Sivek, CSc.

Subject syllabus

Preconditions of the origin of coal seams, processes of transformation of
plant matters into peat – peat mosses, (biochemical phase), the geochemical phase of coal origin – metamorphosis, influences of radioactive elements and overlying rocks. Coalification parameters. The macropetrographical classification
of brown and hard coal, micropetrographical classification of brown and hard
coal, (macerals, maceral groups, intermediate types), microlithotypes. Genetic types of coal – humites, sapropelites, liptobiolites. Physical-mechanical properties
of coal (colour, brightness, fracture, brittleness, density, hardness,
strength). The chemical-technological properties and classification of brown and hard coal. The influence of natural conditions and coal alterations. The evaluation of coke and some carbonaceous matters from the standpoint of coal petrology.

Literature

Stach E., et al.: Stachs Textbook of Coal Petrology. Gebrueder Borntraeger, Berlin-Stuttgert, 1982, 535 p.
Thomas, L.: Coal Geology. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, 2002. 385 s.
Van Crevelen, D.W.:Coal. London, New York, Tokio, Elsevier, 1993.

Advised literature

Taylor, G.H., M. Teichmuller, A. Davis, C.F.K. Diessel, R. Littke, and P.
Robert, 1998, Organic petrology: Berlin & Stuttgart, Gebruder Borntraeger, 704
p.