Environment Protection (FSI-FOZ)

Academic year 2021/2022
Supervisor: doc. Ing. Marek Baláš, Ph.D.  
Supervising institute: EÚ all courses guaranted by this institute
Teaching language: Czech
Aims of the course unit:
The course objective is to make students familiar with basic environmental technologies so that they will be able to judge basic trends in the clean energy production.
Learning outcomes and competences:
This course provides students with the necessary knowledge for operating energetic units and environmental technologies. The acquired knowledge enables students to design and project dust eliminating and desulphurisation devices for middle and small-sized energetic units.
Prerequisites:
Thermo mechanic basics, sources and transformation of energy.
Course contents:
This course will make students familiar with problems of solid and gaseous emissions from power plants and other energy units. The course deals also with secondary pollutants in the air, construction and operation of flue gas cleaning devices, desulphurization methods and devices, and technologies reducing NOx emissions.
Teaching methods and criteria:
The course is taught through lectures explaining the basic principles and theory of the discipline. Exercises are focused on practical topics presented in lectures.
Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes:
Course-unit credit requirements:
- Attendance at seminars
- handing in notes from seminar calculations
- working out an assignment
Controlled participation in lessons:
Attendance at seminars is required, compensation of missed lessons to be negotiated with a teacher.
Type of course unit:
    Lecture  13 × 3 hrs. optionally                  
    Exercise  13 × 1 hrs. compulsory                  
Course curriculum:
    Lecture 1. Introduction, Air cleanness protection law,.
2. Combustion processes, pollutant production, impact on environment, emissions, imissions.
3. Composition of the atmosphere, foreign substances, pollution spreading, meteorological condition.
4. Emission attributes CO, CO2, NOx, SO2, HCl, HF.
5. Emission attributes PCDDIF, O3, secondary chemical pollution.
6. Dust eliminating - mechanical separators, cyclones, construction, usage.
7. Dust eliminating - filters, electrostatic separators, V-A characteristic, types, construction, usage.
8. Desulphurization, limestone methods.
9. Decreasing of NOx emission, primary steps, secondary steps, SCR, SNCR.
10. Incineration units for communal waste, emissions, flue gas deulphurization.
11. Waste and residue of environmental technologies, waste waters, usage, liquidation.
12. Air cleanness protection law, emission limits.
13. Summary.
    Exercise Seminar 1x per 2 weeks.

1. Combustion of solid, liquid and gaseous fuels, specific emission of CO2 from coal combustion, fuel oil, turf and natural gas. Stoichiometric calculation.
2. Practical calculation of solid and gaseous emission concentrations from combusting of brown coal in dry bottom and stoke boiler.
3. Mathematic model (Gauss model) of emission spreading in the atmosphere. Calculation of imission concentration in specific point of terrain according to Gauss model.
4. Theory of dust mechanical separator, assignment of parameters for semester paper.
5. Excursion to Incineration station SAKO Brno, practical overview of electrostatic separator and half-dry method of flue gas desulphurization.
6. Credit.
Literature - fundamental:
1. Kiely G.,: Environmental Engineering, McGraw-Hill, Boston, 1997
2. Josef Vejvoda, Pavel Machač, Petr Buryan: Technologie ochrany ovzduší a čištění odpadních plynů, VŠChT Praha 2003, ISBN 80-7080-517-X
3. Baumbach G.,: Luftreinhaltung, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1992
4. de Nevers, Noel: Air Pollution Control Engineering. McGraw-Hill, Boston, 2000
5. Hemerka, J., Vybíral, P.: Ochrana ovzduší. ČVUT Praha, 2010
6. Kurfürst, Jiří: Kompendium ochrany ovzduší, Vodní zdroje Ekomonitor, Chrudim, 2008
Literature - recommended:
1. Skála Z.,: Ekologie v energetice, Brno PC DIR 1994
2. Černý V., Janeba B., Teysler J.,: Parní kotle, Technický průvodce č. 32, SNTL, Praha, 1983
3. Štorch O.,: Čištění průmyslových plynů a exhalací odlučovači, SNTL, Praha, 1974
The study programmes with the given course:
Programme Study form Branch Spec. Final classification   Course-unit credits     Obligation     Level     Year     Semester  
B3S-P full-time study B-EPP Power Engineering, Processes and Environment -- GCr 3 Compulsory 1 3 S