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Classification of Transported Materials

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Course Unit Code342-6506/01
Number of ECTS Credits Allocated4 ECTS credits
Type of Course Unit *Compulsory
Level of Course Unit *Second Cycle
Year of Study *First Year
Semester when the Course Unit is deliveredSummer Semester
Mode of DeliveryFace-to-face
Language of InstructionCzech
Prerequisites and Co-Requisites Course succeeds to compulsory courses of previous semester
Name of Lecturer(s)Personal IDName
SLI74prof. Ing. Aleš Slíva, Ph.D.
Summary
The classification of materials and their characteristics for the construction of equipment is today in the technical and scientific field important for the design of construction and proper functioning of transport, handling, process and storage equipment. Knowledge of the behavior, identification and characteristics of materials is important for predicting the behavior of these materials and for ensuring the correct function and setting of operating variables of these devices.
Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit
The aim of the course is to acquaint students with a more general approach to the classification and characteristics of transported materials and their applications in transport, storage and production in order to understand the behavior of these materials for the construction of equipment.

By completing this course, students should acquire the following skills:
- have a general awareness of the importance of the material transported,
- be able to define its properties,
- be able to define the transport, storage or handling system based on the knowledge of the transported material

By completing this course, students should be competent to:
- design of transport, storage or handling systems based on knowledge of transported material.
Course Contents
Program of lectures and exercises.

1. Logistics of transport and handling equipment.
2. Classification of transported materials.
3. Criteria for choosing the transport or process system for the transported materials.
4. Classification of materials according to FEM standard, descriptive quantities, influence on the flow and course of pressure.
5 Principles of measuring the properties of transported materials. Equipment and devices.
6. Disorders of the flow of transported materials.
7. Static and dynamic vault. Mass and core flow of material.
8. Application of transported material in the construction of transport, process and storage facilities.
9. Pressing of transported materials.
10. Pneumatic and hydraulic transport.
11. Procedure for design of crushers and mills, theory of crushing, degradation and compression, granulation of transported material.
12. Criteria for selecting a suitable conveyor and transport system for the transported material, monitored demands placed on transport.
13. Innovations in the field of transported material, development trends, the situation in the Czech Republic in comparison with the EU.
14. Recapitulation of basic identification features of material classification.
Recommended or Required Reading
Required Reading:
Keshava Chanda Arora, Vikas V. Shinde. Aspects of Materials Handling. Firewall Media, 2007.Brown, R.: Principles of Powder Mechanics, Pergamon, UK, 1970.
Mulcahy, D., E. Materials Handling Handbook. McGraw-Hill, 1999 - Technology & Engineering.
Polák, J., Pavliska, J., Slíva, A. Manipulace s materiálem I. Ostrava: VŠB - Technická univerzita Ostrava, 2001 99 s. ISBN: 80-248-0043-8.
McGlinchey, D. Bulk Solids Handling: Equipment Selection and Operation. Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 2008. ISBN:9781405158251.
Recommended Reading:
INternational Journals: Granularmater, Schütgut, bukl-Solids-handling, Bulk–Solids, Powder Technology etc.
Wohlbier, R., H.: Bulk Handling in Open Mines and Quarries, 1986, ISBN 0878490655.
Časopisy – Granularmater, Schütgut, Bukl-Solids-Handling, Bukl–Solids-
Processing, Logistika apod.
Handbook of Conveying and Handling of Particulate Solids, A. Levy, Elsevier, October 2001, ISBN: 978-0-444-50235-3.
Jasaň, V. Teória dopravných a manipulačných zariadení. Bratislava: Alfa, vydavateľstvo technickej a ekonomickej literatúry. 1983.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lectures, Tutorials
Assesment methods and criteria
Task TitleTask TypeMaximum Number of Points
(Act. for Subtasks)
Minimum Number of Points for Task Passing
Graded creditGraded credit100 51