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Course, academic year 2023/2024
  
Fuel Processing and Utilization - M215015
Title: Fuel Processing and Utilization
Guaranteed by: Department of Petroleum Technology and Alternative Fuels (215)
Faculty: Faculty of Environmental Technology
Actual: from 2019
Semester: summer
Points: summer s.:5
E-Credits: summer s.:5
Examination process: summer s.:
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:3/0, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
For type: Master's (post-Bachelor)
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: Šimáček Pavel doc. Ing. Ph.D.
Is incompatible with: AM215015
Is interchangeable with: AM215015
Examination dates   Schedule   
Annotation -
Last update: Kubová Petra Ing. (12.04.2018)
The subject is aimed at the fundamentals of processing and utilization of fossil and alternative fuels. Students get information about processing technologies of petroleum, coal and natural gas and information about the properties of final products and ways of their distribution. A part of the subject is also focused on alternative liquid and gaseous fuels.
Aim of the course -
Last update: Kubová Petra Ing. (12.04.2018)

Students will know:

Fundamentals of petroleum processing and production of most important petroleum products.

Utilization and basic properties of motor fuels and other petroleum products.

Fundamentals of coal and natural gas processing.

Utilization and basic properties of alternative liquid and gaseous fuels.

Literature -
Last update: Kubová Petra Ing. (12.04.2018)

R:Modern Petroleum technology, vol. 2 Downstream, edited by Alan G. Lucas, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 2000, ISBN 0-471-98411-6

A:J.C. Guibet: Fuels and Engines 1, Éditions Technip, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-7108-0753-X

A:J.C. Guibet: Fuels and Engines 2, Éditions Technip, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-7108-0754-8

Learning resources -
Last update: Kubová Petra Ing. (12.04.2018)

Electronic lectures published on web of the Department.

Syllabus -
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1. Crude oil origin, production, consumption and chemical composition

2. Atmospheric and vacuum distillation of crude oil, thermal and catalytic cracking of high-boiling crude oil fractions

3. Catalytic hydrocracking of high-boiling crude oil fractions, production of hydrogen and sulfane treatment

4. Refining technologies for production and treatment of motor fuels

5. Properties and utilization of motor fuels

6. Motor fuels distribution

7. Production and properties of lubricating and heating oils and bitumens

8. Alternative liquid motor fuels

9. Coal and other solid fuels - origin, reserves; basic physical and chemical properties; mining, treatment

10. Coal pyrolysis, products and treatment

11. Coal gasification, products, treatment and utilization

12. Gaseous fuels - classification, production, basic properties

13. Natural gas - production, treatment, transportation and distribution

14. Alternative gaseous fuels - hydrogen, biogas, LPG, LNG, CNG

Registration requirements -
Last update: Kubová Petra Ing. (12.04.2018)

none

 
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