Physical Limits of Sustainable Chemistry - B444013
Title: Fyzikální limity udržitelné chemie
Guaranteed by: Department of Physics and Measurement (444)
Faculty: Faculty of Chemical Engineering
Actual: from 2025
Semester: both
Points: 4
E-Credits: 4
Examination process:
Hours per week, examination: 2/1, C+Ex [HT]
Capacity: winter:unknown / unknown (unknown)
summer:unknown / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
Qualifications:  
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
you can enroll for the course in winter and in summer semester
Guarantor: Scholtz Vladimír doc. Ing. Ph.D.
Muchová Eva doc. RNDr. Ph.D.
Examination dates   Schedule   
Annotation -
An introduction course that gives the student an overview of general physical, chemical and thermodynamic laws important for understanding events in the environment, where the student gains a comprehensive insight and feeling. In these areas, he will be partially capable of independent argumentation - only high school knowledge is assumed, other assumptions will be postulated (e.g. thermodynamic laws).
Last update: Cibulková Jana (09.12.2024)
Course completion requirements - Czech

Podmínkou získání zápočtu je absolvování seminářů, laboratorních cvičení a závěrečný test. Zkouška je písemnou i ústní formou.

Last update: Scholtz Vladimír (11.03.2025)
Literature - Czech

Povinná:

  • James E. Girard. Principles of Environmental Chemistry. USA: Jones & Bartlett Publishers, 2013, 712 s. ISBN 978-1449693527.

Doporučená:

  • Peter Markoš, Anton Markoš . Zahalená planéta: Vlastiveda pozemšťana. Praha: Pavel Mervart, 2020, 302 s. ISBN 978-80-7465-442-.
  • László Hajnal, Anton Markoš. Staré pověsti (po)zemské aneb Malá historie planety a života. Praha: Pavel Mervart, 2007, 304 s. ISBN 978-80-86818-375.

Volitelná:

  • Svoboda, Emanuel. Přehled středoškolské fyziky. : Prometheus, 2024, 559 stran, 8 nečíslovaných stran obrazových příloh s. ISBN 978-80-7196-572-5.
  • Jiří Vacík. Přehled středoškolské chemie. : SPN, 2010, 368 s. ISBN 978-80-7235-108-4 .

Last update: Scholtz Vladimír (03.06.2025)
Teaching methods - Czech

Přednášky, cvičení, laboratoře.

Last update: Scholtz Vladimír (11.03.2025)
Requirements to the exam - Czech

Podmínkou zkoušky je získání zápočtu. Zkouška probíhá písemnou formou následovanou ústní částí zkoušky.

Last update: Scholtz Vladimír (11.03.2025)
Syllabus -

1. Postulating initial conditions in environmental protection (the role of the environment, why to protect nature, ecology, biodiversity), transfer of laboratory technologies to industry and its limits (e.g. area-volume ratio). The role of time in technology transfer (time for research and application, lifetime of equipment).

2. Physical laws (especially conservation laws) necessary for understanding events in the environment and definitions of important quantities and relationships between them (force, work, power, intensity, kinetic and potential energy, heat, chemical bonds and binding energy, momentum)

3. Physical events in the Solar System and on Earth (Newton's gravitation law, potential and energy in the gravitational field, black body radiation, energy transfer by radiation). A simplified view of the Earth as a homogeneous sphere, the greenhouse effect.

4. Physical and chemical processes in the atmosphere (absorption of radiation by the atmosphere, the ozone layer), dynamics of the atmosphere (circulation of air, water and other substances), selected environmental problems (acid rain, ozone hole and others) and their solutions.

5. Thermodynamics (laws of conservation, theorems of thermodynamics) and its application to events on Earth, circulation, transformations and forms of energy on Earth.

6. Energy resources on Earth (fossil fuels, nuclear fuel, movement of water and air, solar radiation).

7. Selected methods of obtaining and transforming energy and their limits (combustion of fossil fuels, mining, processing, liquidation and risks of nuclear resources, use of water and air movement, solar resources, others).

8. Different forms of potential energy for energy storage and their limits (electro-chemical batteries, storage in energy links with and without the possibility of conversion to electricity, energy storage in biosystems, others).

9. Energy transport (electricity transmission; oil pipelines, gas pipelines, tanks) and their limits.

10. Agriculture from the point of view of the energy cycle (energy cycle, solar radiation, organic and inorganic substances, artificial fertilizers), its limits and sustainability.

11. Transport from the point of view of the energy circulation (requirements for energy resources and other ones; principles of transport operation) and their limits; pollution caused by traffic.

12. Transport options for the future with regard to reducing the environmental burden and their limits (electromobility, rail and pipeline transport).

13. Water management from the point of view of the energy circulation (fresh and salt water, waste water and their transfer), necessary energy resources and their limits.

14. Physics and physical chemistry of modern materials (principles of materials based on biotechnology, ecological catalysis, prasinosolvents, waste recycling and others) and their perspectives.

Last update: Cibulková Jana (09.12.2024)
Learning outcomes - Czech

Studenti budou umět aplikovat základní fyzikální principy a zákonitosti na objekty a procesy význané v udržitelné chemii a ochraně životního prostředí a posoudit jejich fyzikální limity.

Last update: Scholtz Vladimír (11.03.2025)
Registration requirements - Czech

Žádné

Last update: Scholtz Vladimír (11.03.2025)
Teaching methods
Activity Credits Hours
Konzultace s vyučujícími 0.2 5
Účast na přednáškách 1 28
Příprava na přednášky, semináře, laboratoře, exkurzi nebo praxi 1.9 54
Účast na seminářích 0.5 14
Semester tests 0.4 11
4 / 4 112 / 112
Coursework assessment
Form Significance
Examination test 40
Continuous assessment of study performance and course -credit tests 20
Oral examination 40