Course: Materials of Energy Engineering

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Course title Materials of Energy Engineering
Course code UTM/PX101
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Lesson
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 5
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Kuśmierczak Sylvia, doc. Ing. PhD.
Course content
1. Structure of solids, structure of the atom, the building materials, the bond between atoms, fundamentals of crystallography. Disorders crystal structure, diffusion. 2. The properties of metals and alloys: physical and chemical, electrical, magnetic, thermoelectric, electrochemical and corrosion properties. 3.Crystallization metals and their alloys, and thermodynamic equilibrium phase, the general features of crystallization. Influencing the magnitude of dendritic cells. Crystal and band segregation. 4. Equilibrium binary diagrams - basic types. 5. Equilibrium diagram iron - carbon, metastable system Fe-Fe3C, stable Fe-C system, iron. 6. Heat treatment: annealing, quenching, tempering, heat treatment. 7. Chemico heat treatment: carburizing, nitriding and other methods. 8. Nonferrous metals in the energy sector: the distribution, characteristics, application. 9. Copper and its alloys: classification, properties, processing and use. 10. Al and its alloys: classification, properties, processing and use. 11. Zn, Ni, Ag, Au, Pt, properties, processing and use.

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified
Learning outcomes
The goal of this subject is to provide students with knowledge of the structure and properties of metallic and nonmetallic materials used in energetics, as well as the influence of these characteristics and procedures for the thermal mechanical treatment.

Prerequisites
. student is oriented in the structure of solids ? The student is able to describe the equilibrium diagrams ? Students are able to describe elements and their alloys used in electrical engineering

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
Recommended literature
  • Machek, V., Sodoma, J. Nauka o materiálu - 1. část, Struktury kovových materiálů, ČVUT,. 2006. ISBN ISBN 80-01-03379-.
  • Machek, V., Sodoma, J. Nauka o materiálu - 2. část, Vlastnosti kovových materiálů, ČVUT,. 2007. ISBN ISBN 978-80-01-03.
  • Michna Š., Lukáč I., Očenášek V., Kořený R., Drápala J., Schneider H., Miškufová A. a kol. Encyklopedie hliníku, ADIN. 2005. ISBN ISBN 80-89041-88-.
  • Ptáček, L. a kol. Nauka o materiálu I, CERM.
  • Ptáček, L. a kol. Nauka o materiálu II, CERM. Brno, 1999.


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