Chemical engineering
- Refinery and petrochemical processes of crude oil processing
- Technologies of manufacturing and properties of conventional liquid fuels (gasoline, diesel oil, heating oil) and biofuels
- Technologies of conversion of biomass to liquid fuels
- Quality parameters of solid, liquid and gaseous fuels
- Pyrolysis and gasification processes, industrial implementation of the pyrolysis process, solid fuel gasification technologies
- Clean Coal Technologies
- Solid fuels beneficiation processes
- Combustion processes of solid, liquid and gaseous fuels - energy and environmental aspects
- Flue and process gases treatment processes: removal of CO2, nitrogen oxides, sulphur oxides, H2S, NH3, particulates
- Adsorption and absorption processes: adsorbents manufacturing technologies (on the example of activated carbons); methods used for characterization of adsorbents; basic equations describing adsorption process; application of adsorbents
- Adsorption processes designed for purification of liquids and gases
- Physical and chemical properties of carbon-based new materials for technical purposes
- Carbon-based composite nanomaterials including carbon/silicon carbide C/SiC system
- Methods of gas transporting over a long distance; separated distribution gas networks
- Effects of hydrogen addition to natural gas on its properties
- Modern technologies of producing hydrogen from fossil fuels
- Unconventional technologies for hydrogen production
- Renewable fuels - general characteristics
- Electrochemical power sources (batteries, supercapacitors, fuel cells)
- The use of methanol and other alternative fuels to supply fuel cells
- Circular economy
Environmental engineering, mining and energy
- Cogeneration and polygeneration.
- Heat recovery systems used in the industry and energetics.
- Energy accumulation, energy conversion and energy storage.
- Power engineering transformation.
- Steam and water boilers, rules of boiler regulation.
- Steam and gas turbines.
- Combustion, flame speed, combustion stabilization and flash point.
- Energy and ecological aspects of fuel combustion.
- Low-temperature heating systems.
- Heat recovery in air conditioning.
- Compressor and absorption chillers.
- Working agents, refrigerants and coolants.
- Moist air, properties, i-x graph.
- Thermoelectricity.
- The greenhouse effect and the ozone hole.
- Continuity equation, examples of the Bernoulli equation applications.
- Natural and forced convection - differences and similarities.
- Heat radiation - examples of applications.
- Energy efficiency, energy audit and energy certification.
- Thermal comfort and parameters of evaluation.
- Adsorption processes in the environment and industry.
Materials engineering
Basics of crystallochemistry
- chemical bonds vs. material properties;
- isomorphism and polymorphism;
- the Pauling's rule,
- solid solutions;
Transport of mass and heat in solids
- mechanisms of heat transport in solid bodies;
- correlation between heat transport and chemical bonds;
- chemical diffusion and interdiffusion;
- quantitative description of diffusion process;
Methods of investigations of solids (general characteristics)
- investigation methods of crystalline and amorphous bodies;
- methods of investigation of thermal properties of solids;
- vibrational spectroscopy;
- methods of investigation of solid surfaces;
- methods of investigation of solids microstructure;
Ceramic functional materials
- mechanisms for conducting electric charges in solid bodies;
- transparency conditions for ceramic materials;
- ion conductors and electron semiconductors;
- dielectric polarization phenomenon;
Composite materials
- types of composites;
- rules for the selection of materials for composites;
- phenomena leading to the strengthening of composite materials;
- the use of non-mechanical properties of composites;
Biomaterials
- types of biomaterials;
- application of biomaterials;
- bioceramics and bioglasses;
- polymer biomaterials
- metal, carbon and composite biomaterials;