Course Details
Theoretical fundamentals of silicates technology
Academic Year 2024/25
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
8 credits
Semester
summer
Forms and criteria of assessment
examination
Offered to foreign students
Not to offer
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 3 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
1. Chemical equilibria, the Guldberg-Waag Law, systems outside of equilibrium, reaction isotherm.
2. State behaviour of liquids, surface effects, cohesion pressure, transport processes in liquids.
3. Phase equilibria, one component system, Gibbs Law of phases, system with two components.
4. Heterogeneous one-, two- and more-components systems, solubility of gases in liquids.
5. The systems: solid phase-gas, solid phase-liquid phase, ternary systems.
6. Electrochemistry, Faradays Laws, molar conductivity of weak and strong electrolytes, the Wheatstone´s bridge, dissociation and hydrolysis, ionic product of water, galvanic elements.
7. Disperse systems, division, basic physical properties, coagulation, zeta-potential.
8. Reaction kinetics, order and molecularity of reaction, reactions of 1st, 2nd, and higher orders, catalysts.
9. Structure of silicates, Pauling´s principles, basic structural arrangement.
10. Clay minerals, structural arrangement. Classification of clay minerals, water bond in clay minerals.
11. Structure and the properties of silicate melt. Melt crystallisation, the structure of glass.Heterogeneous equilibria in silicate systems, reactions in solid state.