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Terminated in academic year 2014/2015

Energetical Fuels Utilization

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 619-0805/01
Abbreviation EVP
Course title Energetical Fuels Utilization
Credits 6
Coordinating department Department of Physical Chemistry and Theory of Technological Processes
Course coordinator prof. Ing. Pavel Noskievič, CSc.

Subject syllabus

1. Thermodynamics. The First Law of thermodynamics, The Second Law of
thermodynamics, Gases, The heat capacities, Enthalpy, Internal Energy,
Thermochemistry, The variation of enthalpy with temperature, Kirchhoff’s law. The
adiabatic reaction temperature.

2. Fuel. Gaseous, liquid and solid fuel, chemical and others properties of a fuel,
composition and combustion of a fuel, amount of oxygen and air for combustion,
the combustion products.

3. Equilibrium composition of the products of burning. The equilibrium constant, the
effect of the pressure, the temperature and the concentrations of the reacting
matters on the equilibrium.

4. Flame and burning. The physical and the chemical characteristic of the flame, the
radiation of the flame, the flame - kinetic, diffusion, laminar, turbulent and
regulated.

5. Kinetics of combustion of a fuel. Mechanism and kinetics of the burning reactions -
gaseous, liquid and solid fuel.

6. Heterogeneous kinetics of the burning reactions, diffusion and adsorption (physical
adsorption and chemisorption).

7. The mechanism of the chemical reactions, the chain reaction – the kinetic chain
length, the thermal reaction, the explosion transformations.

8. The fossil fuel – characteristic, reserves and applications.

9. Power industry, the combustion of the fuel, the efficiency of combustion.

10. The production of the pollutants – minimization.

11. The modern combustion systems. The combustion of the solid fuel – principle.

12. The combustion of the liquid and the gaseous fuel – principle, the rational
application of the fuel.

13. The new energetic sources, the combustion of the biomass and the wastes, the
fuel cells.

Literature

ATKINS,P.W. Physical Chemistry. Fourth Edition, Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 1993. 995 s.

Advised literature

No advised literature has been specified for this subject.