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Course, academic year 2023/2024
  
Laboratory of Fuels - AB251001
Title: Laboratory of Fuels
Guaranteed by: Department of Sustainable Fuels and Green Chemistry (228)
Faculty: Faculty of Environmental Technology
Actual: from 2023
Semester: winter
Points: winter s.:4
E-Credits: winter s.:4
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/6, MC [HT]
Capacity: unknown / unlimited (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
Language: English
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
For type: Bachelor's
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: Staš Martin Ing. Ph.D.
Interchangeability : B251001, N251005
Annotation
Last update: Staš Martin Ing. Ph.D. (16.09.2023)
The aim of the course is to teach students to determine basic physical and chemical properties of solid, liquid and gaseous fuels.
Literature
Last update: Staš Martin Ing. Ph.D. (16.09.2023)

Laboratory work manuals available via e-learning.

Syllabus
Last update: Staš Martin Ing. Ph.D. (16.09.2023)

1. Distillation test and flash point of fuels.

2. Low-temperature properties of fuels and lubricants.

3. Density of petroleum products.

4. Group-type analysis of motor oil.

5. Preparative group-type analysis of petroleum products.

6. Determination of parameters of heavy heating oils.

7. Analysis of ethanol-gasoline blends.

8. Composition of LPG.

9. Determination of water, ash, and volatile combustibles in solid fuels

10. Determination of sulfur in coal by the Eschke method.

10. Calorimetry - lower and higher heating value.

11. Basic analysis of gaseous fuels, calculation of lower and higher heating value.

12. Low-temperature carbonization test of coal.

13. Determination of the corrosion rate of bioethanol.

14. Determination of the crystallization point

Registration requirements
Last update: Staš Martin Ing. Ph.D. (16.09.2023)

None.

Course completion requirements
Last update: Staš Martin Ing. Ph.D. (16.09.2023)

The condition for completing the course is the successful completion of all prescribed laboratory works. The total mark is obtained as an arithmetic average of marks for individual laboratory works. The grade for the laboratory work is obtained as the arithmetic average of the partial grades for (i) the initial examination of the theory and the actual laboratory work procedure, (ii) the experimental work itself, and (iii) the quality of the laboratory protocol processing.

 
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