1.Renewable and nonrenewable energy sources. Division of fuels. Development and perspectives of fuel industry. Origin of caustobioliths and their world sources. Economic and environmental aspects of the fuel utilization.
2. Solid fuels. Current views on the composition and structure of coal. Chemistry of combustion, gasification and coal carbonization. The process of self-combustion. The relationship between process conditions and the characteristics of final products. Possibilities of obtaining liquid fuels from coal. Clean Coal Technology. Non-energy use of coal and products of its processing. Chemistry of tar and pitch.
3. Liquid fuels. Composition and classification of crude oil. Recovery, primary processing, transport and storage. Crude oil refining, principes and technology. Oil and the environment. Biological degradation of petroleum and petroleum derivatives. Refinery products. Production of synthetic fuels and lubricants. Fuel combustion in diesel and gasoline engines. Heating oils. Asphalt.
4. Gaseous fuels. Natural gas, CBM, hydrogen. Gaseous fuels in transportation. Gasification of coal. Syngas. Reactors for gasification. Underground gasification. Utilization of syngas in chemistry. Fuel cells.
Alternative fuels. Extra heavy oils, bituminous sands and kerogen rocks. Co-processing. Biofuels.
2. Solid fuels. Current views on the composition and structure of coal. Chemistry of combustion, gasification and coal carbonization. The process of self-combustion. The relationship between process conditions and the characteristics of final products. Possibilities of obtaining liquid fuels from coal. Clean Coal Technology. Non-energy use of coal and products of its processing. Chemistry of tar and pitch.
3. Liquid fuels. Composition and classification of crude oil. Recovery, primary processing, transport and storage. Crude oil refining, principes and technology. Oil and the environment. Biological degradation of petroleum and petroleum derivatives. Refinery products. Production of synthetic fuels and lubricants. Fuel combustion in diesel and gasoline engines. Heating oils. Asphalt.
4. Gaseous fuels. Natural gas, CBM, hydrogen. Gaseous fuels in transportation. Gasification of coal. Syngas. Reactors for gasification. Underground gasification. Utilization of syngas in chemistry. Fuel cells.
Alternative fuels. Extra heavy oils, bituminous sands and kerogen rocks. Co-processing. Biofuels.