Course: Air Protection Technology II

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Course title Air Protection Technology II
Course code TUIOZP/TE8OO
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Lesson + Seminary
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 5
Language of instruction English
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Course availability The course is available to visiting students
Lecturer(s)
  • Dvořáčková Marie, Ing. Ph.D.
Course content
1. Basics of air protection. 2. Equipment essential to remove solids from gaseous emissions, mechanical cleaners, sedimentation chambers, perforated and louver separators, vortex separators. 3. Fabric and porous filters. Wet separators, types of wet separators, problems of waste water and sludge from wet separators. Electrostatic precipitators. 4. Equipment essential to remove gaseous substances and aerosols, absorption processes, adsorption processes. 5. Equipment essential to remove gaseous substances and aerosols. Thermal decomposition and combustion, condensation and compression processes, biological processes. 6. Flue gas desulphurization methods, sulfur content reduction in fuels, fluidized bed combustion, wet desulphurisation methods, catalysed desulphurisation processes. 7. Wet limestone technology of flue gas desulfurization. 8. Reduction of nitrogen oxides content in combustion products - reduction of NOx emissions by modification of combustion process, dry and wet denitrification methods. 9. Transport emissions, measures to reduce emissions, petrol and diesel engines. 10. Cleaning of waste gases from waste incineration plants. 11. Air analysis (sampling, methods of air analysis, air monitoring). 12. Analyzers of gaseous emissions and immissions - optical methods of E&I analysis, magnetic analyzers, electrochemical analyzers, analyzers using flame ionization (FID). 13. Analysis of sulfur compounds in the atmosphere, NOx analysis, analysis of carbon compounds in the atmosphere. 14. Methods of measurement and calculation of emissions: single or continuous determination of emissions, determination of emissions by calculation - balance method, calculation method using emission factors.

Learning activities and teaching methods
  • Preparation for examination - 150 hours per semester
learning outcomes
Knowledge
technology for reducing emissions of volatile organic substances into the air from industrial sources
technology for reducing emissions of volatile organic substances into the air from industrial sources
technological procedures to reduce emissions of solid pollutants into the air
technological procedures to reduce emissions of solid pollutants into the air
methods of reducing nitrogen oxide emissions from mobile and stationary sources
methods of reducing nitrogen oxide emissions from mobile and stationary sources
technological procedures for reducing emissions of sulfur dioxide into the air from the energy industry
technological procedures for reducing emissions of sulfur dioxide into the air from the energy industry
basic knowledge of air chemistry
basic knowledge of air chemistry
Skills
the student is able to work in air protection technologies
the student is able to work in air protection technologies
has knowledge of technological procedures in the reduction of emissions of pollutants into the air from stationary and mobile sources
has knowledge of technological procedures in the reduction of emissions of pollutants into the air from stationary and mobile sources
can estimate the suitability of processes in air protection
can estimate the suitability of processes in air protection
cooperation on the application of air pollutant emissions reduction technologies
cooperation on the application of air pollutant emissions reduction technologies
teaching methods
Knowledge
Lecturing
Lecturing
Dialogic (Discussion, conversation, brainstorming)
Dialogic (Discussion, conversation, brainstorming)
Skills
Simple experiments
Simple experiments
Practice exercises
Practice exercises
assessment methods
Knowledge
Didactic test
Didactic test
Analysis of works made by the student (Technical products)
Analysis of works made by the student (Technical products)
Oral examination
Oral examination
Recommended literature
  • AUSTIN, J., BRIMBLECOMBE, P., STURGES, W.T. Air Pollution Science for the 21st Century. Developments in Environmental Science.. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2002. ISBN 008044119X.
  • GODISH, T., DAVIS, W.T., FU, J.S. Air Quality. 5th Ed. Boca Raton: CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2014.
  • CHÝLKOVÁ, J., ŠELEŠOVSKÁ, R., TOMÁŠKOVÁ, M. Ekoanalýza I.. Pardubice: UPa, 2013. ISBN 978-80-7395-600-4.
  • POPL, M., FÄHNRICH, J. Analytická chemie životního prostředí. 4. přep. vyd. Praha: VŠCHT, 1999. ISBN 8070803363.
  • Richter, Miroslav. Technologie ochrany životního prostředí. Ústí nad Labem : Fakulta životního prostředí UJEP, 2004. ISBN 80-7044-585-8.
  • Skoog, D.A. et al. Fundamentals of Analytical Chemistry. Sounders College Publ., 1996, 423 pp. Philadelphia, 1996.
  • VEJVODA, J., BURYAN, P., MACHAČ, P. Technologie ochrany ovzduší a čištění odpadních plynů.. Praha: VŠCHT, 2003. ISBN 807080517X.


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