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Terminated in academic year 2016/2017

Fuel Technology

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 617-0809/01
Abbreviation TP
Course title Fuel Technology
Credits 6
Coordinating department Department of Chemistry
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Petr Pánek, CSc.

Subject syllabus

1. Introduction and basic concept. Renewable and nonrenewable energy sources. Development and perspectives of fuel industry.
2. Origin of caustobioliths, review of theoretical approaches. History of caustobioliths utilization. Present status and perspective of caustobiolith extraction (CR and world).
3. Coal technologies. Carbonization. Carbonization chemistry, kinetics and dynamics of the coking process. Link between carbonization conditions and characteristics of products.
4.Gasification of coal. Syngas. Reactors for gasification. C1- chemistry.
5. Coal liquefaction. The theory of dissolution of the coal substance. Extraction and degradation of coal. Direct and indirect liquefaction, history and perspective.
6 Coal for energy production. Co-processing, co-pyrolysis of coal ( waste treatment)and its perspective. 7. Crude oil. Mining, basic processing, transport and storage. Composition of crude oil and petroleum classification. Oil and the environment. Biological degradation of petroleum and petroleum derivatives.
8. Chemistry of methods in oil processing. Petrochemicals. Cracking and refining of petroleum fractions.
9. Refined products from crude oil. The production of fuels and lubricants. Fuel combustion in diesel and gasoline engines. Heating oil. Asphalt.
10. Alternative fuels. Bituminous sands and kerogen rocks.
11.Gaseous fuels (natural gas, CBM, hydrogen). Gaseous fuels in transportation.
12. Renewable fuels. Biofuels.
13 Fuel cells. Principle, current status in usage and perspective for energy recovery.
14. Ecological and economic aspects of fuel production. The issue of carbon dioxide sequestration. Clean Coal Technology.

Literature

1) Speight, J.G.: Chemistry and Technology of Petroleum. CRC/Taylor&Francis 2007
2) Berkowitz,N.: An introduction to coal technology. Academic Press 1994

Advised literature

1) Krevelen, D.W. van. Coal : typology, physics, chemistry, constitution. 3.vydání. Elsevier 1993