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Raw Materials in Industry

Summary

The course focuses on the application potential of raw materials in selected industries. The lectures emphasize the application of final mineral products in target markets. During the exercises, students gain practical experience by working on a semester project on the topic of target markets for products of selected minerals in a particular industry.

Literature

BLENGINI G.A. et al. Study on the EU's list of Critical Raw Materials. Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union, 2020. ISBN 978-92-76-21049-8 .
RADETZKI, Marina; WÅRELL, Linda. A Handbook of Primary Commodities in the Global Economy. 3rd ed. Cambridge University Press, 2020. ISBN 978-1108841542 .
STAHEL, Walter R. The Circular Economy: A User's Guide. Routledge, 2019. ISBN: 978-0367200176 .
TILTON, John E. a Juan Ignacio GUZMÁN. Mineral economics and policy. New York: RFF Press, Resources for the Future, 2016. ISBN 978-1-61726-088-9 .

Advised literature

BROWN, T.J. et al. World Mineral Production 2015-19. Keyworth, Nottingham: British Geological Survey, 2021. ISBN 978-0-85272-790-4 .
WELLMER, Friedrich-W. et al. Raw Materials for Future Energy Supply. Springer, 2018. ISBN 978-3319912288 
CLAYTON, Blake C. Commodity Markets and the Global Economy. Cambridge University Press, 2015. ISBN 978-1107042513 .
WAGNER, Lorie A. Materials in the economy: material flows, scarcity, and the environment. Denver: U.S. Geological Survey, 2002. ISBN 0-607-98412-0.


Language of instruction čeština, angličtina
Code 545-0175
Abbreviation SP
Course title Raw Materials in Industry
Coordinating department Department of Economics and Control Systems
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Roman Kozel, Ph.D.