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Terminated in academic year 2014/2015

Mineral Raw-Materials Heat Treatment

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 542-0416/03
Abbreviation TZNS
Course title Mineral Raw-Materials Heat Treatment
Credits 7
Coordinating department Department of Mining Engineering and Safety
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Jiří Botula, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Basics of heat-technique.
1.1 Characteristics of fuels, heat, temperature and other basic terms.

2. Material and energy balance of thermal equipment

3. Drying of materials.
3.1 Theoretical foundations of drying

4. Technological equipment of dryers, types
4.1 Strangeness of coal drying

5. Briquetting of coal and ore concentrates
5.1 Basis of briquetting, briquetting theory
5.2 Evaluation of raw materials under briquette ability

6. Technology and machinery in briquette plants
6.1 Properties of briquettes

7. Carbonization of coal
7.1 Theoretical foundations, properties in terms of coal coking
7.2 Coke tests, production of coke

8. Coke ovens and machinery, heating systems for coke batteries

9. Management and control technology of coking
9.1 Properties of coke, coke oven gas and its composition

10. Chemical products of coking and their gaining
10.1 Environmental impact of chemical products of coke, hygiene and safety of work at coke oven plants

11. Heat benefication of ores
11.1 Methods of roasting, characteristics of chemical reactions
11.2 Technology and Machinery

12. Agglomeration
12.1 Basis of agglomeration, factors influencing the agglomeration process

13. Methods of agglomeration, technology and machinery
13.1 Properties of agglomerate from point of view of its further processing

14. Pelletizing
14.1 Theoretic basis of peletization

15. Machinery and technology of pelletizing
15.1 Hardening of pellets
15.2 Utilization of pelletizing, pellets properties

Seminars:

1. Introductory seminar - introduction with a the subject content and conditions of the credit granting. Basic concepts of heat-technique.
2. Determination of water content in coal

3. Determination of ash content
4. Determination of volatile combustible content
5. Determination of the swelling index
6. Determination of the expansion of coal
7. Determination of gross calorific and calorific value
8. Calcining roasting of siderite
9. Determination of water content
10. Determination of ash content
11. Determination of a softening point
12. Wash oil, distillation test
13. Measurement of density by using a Mohr’s scales
14. Determination of flash point
15. Relative viscosity of oil
Excursion to the coking plant

Literature

SUBBA RAO, D. V. a T. GOURICHARAN. Coal processing and utilization. Boca Raton: CRC Press/Balkema, 2016. ISBN 978-1-138-02959-0 .
MUJUMDAR, Arun S. Handbook of industrial drying. Fourth edition. Boca Raton: CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015. ISBN 9781466596658 .
EL-MAHALLAWY, F. M. a Saad El-Din HABIK. Fundamentals and technology of combustion. Boston: Elsevier, 2002. ISBN 0080441068 .
SCHEIRS, John a W. KAMINSKY. Feedstock recycling and pyrolysis of waste plastics: converting waste plastics into diesel and other fuels. Hoboken, NJ: J. Wiley, 2006. ISBN 9780470021521 .

Advised literature

SPEIGHT, J. G. The chemistry and technology of coal. 3rd ed. Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2013. Chemical industries. ISBN 978-1-4398-3646-0 .
BASU, Prabir. Biomass gasification and pyrolysis: practical design and theory. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2010. ISBN 978-0-12-374988-8 .
SRB, Jaroslav. Pelletization of fines. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1988. Developments in mineral processing.
BASU, Prabir. Biomass gasification, pyrolysis, and torrefaction: practical design and theory. Second edition. Boston: Academic Press is and imprint of Elsevier, 2013. ISBN 978-012-396488-5 .