Terminated in academic year 2022/2023

Chemistry of Burning and Fire Extinguishing

Type of study	Doctoral
Language of instruction	English
Code	617-0938/03
Abbreviation	CHHH
Course title	Chemistry of Burning and Fire Extinguishing
Credits	10
Coordinating department	Department of Chemistry
Course coordinator	doc. Ing. Petr Pánek, CSc.

Subject syllabus

1. Combustion. Energy changes during burning and explosion processes. Kinetics of homogeneous and heterogeneous reactions.Thermodynamic characteristics of combustibles. Types of flames, the flame temperature. Burning of dust mixtures, gasous, liquid and solid substances. Methods of fire suppression.

2. Spontaneous combustion. Flammability of materials and their establishing. Thermal and chemical combustion. Autoignition based on biochemical processes. Methods of monitoring processes of thermooxidation.

3. Fire. Mechanism of the fire extinguishing processes. Types of extinguishing agents. Surfactants, foam formation theory. Water chemistry (the presence and distribution, chemical and physical properties).

4.The chemical and toxicological properties of combustion products

Literature

[1] Glassman, Irvin. Combustion. 3rd ed. San Diego, Calif: Academic Press, 1996 (*)

(*) available from the university web as an e-book

Advised literature

[1])Spiro, T.G. Stigliani W.M.: Chemistry of the Environment Elsevir 2003
[2]Yoshida, Tadao, Yuji Wada, and Natalie Foster. Safety of Reactive Chemicals and Pyrotechnics Industrial safety series, 5. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1995(*)
[3] Eckhoff, Rolf K. Dust Explosions in the Process Industries. 3rd ed. Amsterdam: Gulf.
Professional Pub 2003

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