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Institute of Technology of Building Materials and Components (THD)

Absolvent of the course is able to:
Apply The first and second law of thermodynamics in calculations of heat and work in every characteristic process of ideal gas.
Explain and use heat diagrams of water steam.
Explain and use heat diagrams of humid air.
Calculate the heat and material balance of theoretical and real dryers.
Describe various types of drying processes and dryers, define their advantages and disadvantages in therms of consumption of thermal energy.
Calculate the heat and material balance tunel kiln.

Basic knowledge of thermal engineering, knowledge of technological processes for binders and ceramic products production, especially drying and burning processes.
Physics of Building Materials

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Information is presented to students in the form of lectures.
Students work in seminars on assigned tasks in teams and then presents the results in the form of protocols.
Students are required to calculate specified exercises individually, the correctness of which is verified by supervisor of seminars.

Active attendance in every compulsory part of the course.
Completion submissions of all seminar reports in required length, form, quality and time.
In the credit test students have to demonstrate their abilities to apply newly acquired knowledge by calculating simple excercises. Maximum number of points which can be reached in the test is hundred, passmark is sixty.
At the end of the course there is an exam which consists of both a written and oral part.

1st Development of applied thermodynamics, significance in thermal processes of building materials manufacture, relations with energetic situation.
2nd Laws, state and technological quantities, volume work and technical work, cyclic processes.
3rd Heat diagrams, entropy, irreversibility of processes in practice.
4th Flow of liquids, terminology, energetic balance, flow loss in real systems of building materials.
5th Heat transfer by conduction, by radiation, by flow, similarity criteria.
6th Thermodynamics of vapours, real gases and vapours, heat diagrams.
7th Diagrams application, the state of vapours and their changes, mixing of vapours and of vapour with water.
8th Thermodynamics of humid air, state variables, state equations.
9th i-x diagram and its applications, state transformations, mixing of air flows,
10th Heat transmission and mass transfer, principles of the drying process, statics of drying, balances, type of dryers.
11th Solid, liquid and gaseous fuels, components of fuels, possibilities of alternative fuels, predictions concerning the securing of primary energy sources.
12th Fundamentals of combustion, combustion statics, quantity of air and of combustion gases.
13th Principles of kilns heat balance, survey of kiln units for the production of building materials, burners. Energetic and ecology: energetic of the building materials production, development in the world, environmental aspects of EU legislation.

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Complete overview about the importance of heat techniques in decisive technological processes of building materials production, especially of production economy and ecological aspects. Basic outlook in national and worldwide balance of energetic resources, mastery of heat balances and of tasks connected wit heat savings solution especially in energetically most demanding processes of drying and burning, environmental responsibility improvement of building materials manufacturers to produce sustain ecologically acceptable products.

Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

There is a possibility to cooperate on a projects, which are solving thermal balances.

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