Process and Power Engineering and Legislation (FSI-KEL)

Academic year 2023/2024
Supervisor: doc. Ing. Martin Pavlas, Ph.D.  
Supervising institute: ÚPI all courses guaranted by this institute
Teaching language: Czech
Course type: departmental course
Aims of the course unit:
- To get acquainted with essential parts of legislation related to design, construction and operation of process and power engineering units and industrial plants.
- To become able to apply gained knowledge to a set of typical process units and industrial plants.
Learning outcomes and competences:
Students will learn essential parts of legislation related to design and operation of process units. They will learn to apply gained knowledge of regulations in engineering practice. Students will be able to evaluate proces parameters with respect to related legislation.
Prerequisites:
Mass and heat balance calculations, mechanisms of pollutant emissions formation, design of process and power systems, statistics.
Course contents:
Planning and design of process and power systems require knowledge of both current and upcoming legislative limitations. In the course, students will get acquainted with essential parts of legislation related to design, construction and operation of process and power engineering units and industrial plants. They will learn about regulations for environmental protection, the use of natural resources and proces safety. A part of the course is also devoted to legal liability, protection of intellectual property and final products compliance with legislation.
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:

SEMINARS: Regular and active attendance is obligatory. A minimum number of 20 points from course assignments and the final presentation must be reached.

EXAM: The exam is both written and oral. It must be passed successfully, i.e. a minimum number of 30 points must be reached.

FINAL GRADE: The final grade is based on the sum of points obtained from the course assignments and the exam part. The course evaluation follows a standard procedure (less than 50 points - F, [50,60) points - E, [60,70) points - D, [70,80) points - C, [80,90) points - B, 90 points and more - A).
Controlled participation in lessons:
Participation in the seminar is regularly checked. In justified cases, an absence at a seminar may be substituted by an individual project (in the form of practical case study).
Type of course unit:
    Lecture  13 × 2 hrs. optionally                  
    Exercise  13 × 1 hrs. compulsory                  
Course curriculum:
    Lecture

1. Introduction, legal liability.
2. Prevention of major accidents caused by hazardous chemical substances.
3. Risk assessment in major accidents.
4. Environmental protection I.
5. Environmental protection II.
6. Technical standards.
7. Legal framework for the construction of industrial plants.
8. Legal framework for energy management and selected process and power units.
9. Placing products on the market.
10. The Waste Act and its implementing decrees
11. Intellectual property protection.
12. Ecological footprints.
13. Solution to model examples of typical industrial processes.
    Exercise

The course exercises will cover the following topics:


Legal liability.
Classification of hazardous chemicals.
Major accident scenarios.
Flue gas and wastewater quality measurement and evaluation
Wastewater cleaning.
Energy laws.
Placing products on the market.
The Waste Act and its implementing decrees.
Ecological footprints.


Presentation and assessment of course projects.
Literature - fundamental:
1. Zákon č. 406/2000 Sb., o hospodaření s energií
2. Zákon č. 165/2012 Sb., o podporovaných zdrojích energie a o změně některých zákonů
3. Zákon č. 224/2015 Sb., o prevenci závažných havárií
4. Zákon č. 201/2012 Sb., o ochraně ovzduší
6. Zákon č. 254/2001 Sb., vodní zákon
7. Vyhláška 415/2012 Sb., o přípustné úrovni znečišťování a jejím zjišťování
8. Zákon č. 100/2001 Sb., posuzování vlivů na životní prostředí
8. Nařízení vlády 401/2015 Sb., o ukazatelích a hodnotách přípustného znečištění povrchových vod a odpadních vod (CS)
9. Vyhláška č. 480/2012 Sb., o energetickém auditu a energetickém posudku
10. Zákon č. 183/2006 Sb., stavební zákon
11. Zákon č. 22/1997 Sb., o technických požadavcích na výrobky
12. Zákon č. 527/1990 Sb., o vynálezech a zlepšovacích návrzích
13. Zákon č. 121/2000 Sb., autorský zákon
14. Zákon č. 90/2016 Sb., o posuzování shody stanovených výrobků při jejich dodávání na trh
15. Zákon č. 541/2020 Sb. o odpadech (odpadový zákon).
Literature - recommended:
1. JANČÁŘOVÁ, Ilona, Jana DUDOVÁ, Jakub HANÁK, Milan PEKÁREK, Ivana PRŮCHOVÁ, Vojtěch VOMÁČKA a Dominik ŽIDEK. Právo životního prostředí: obecná část. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2016. Učebnice Právnické fakulty MU. ISBN 978-80-210-8366-0.
2. JAKL, Ladislav. Nový občanský zákoník a duševní vlastnictví. Praha: Metropolitan University Prague Press, 2012, 163 s. ISBN 978-80-86855-87-5.
3. TELEC, Ivo. Právo duševního vlastnictví v informační společnosti. Praha: Leges, 2015, 240 s. ; 21 cm. ISBN 978-80-7502-061-1.
4. Informační materiály ÚNMZ [online]. Praha: Úřad pro technickou normalizaci, metrologii a státní zkušebnictví, 2017. Dostupné z: www.unmz.cz
5. GREEN, Don W., SOUTHARD, Marylee Z. Perry's Chemical Engineer's Handbook, 9th Ed., McGraw-Hill Education, New York, 2018, 2272 pp., ISBN 978-0071834087
The study programmes with the given course:
Programme Study form Branch Spec. Final classification   Course-unit credits     Obligation     Level     Year     Semester  
N-PRI-P full-time study --- no specialisation -- Cr,Ex 4 Compulsory 2 2 W
RRTES_P full-time study RRTS Risk Management of Technical Systems -- Cr,Ex 4 Compulsory-optional 2 2 W