COURSE UNIT TITLE

: COAL TECHNOLOGY

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
MIN 5094 COAL TECHNOLOGY ELECTIVE 2 0 0 6

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR VEDAT ARSLAN

Offered to

Mineral Processing
Mineral Processing

Course Objective

Teaching the relationship between coal properties and coal usage, teaching the the aims and processes of combustion, gasification and coking technology, a brief introduction of other coal evaluation methods.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Interpret the usage of coal from its properties
2   Defining the coal combustion and analysing the coal properties and coal combustion conditions
3   Defining the coal carbonization and with classifying the carbonization methods, analyse the coal properties with related to the carbonization
4   Defining the coal gasification and analysing the gasification process for the industrial aims.
5   Learning the other coal chemical utilization processes, to analyse the characteristics of coal for industrial appliations.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 General and coking properties of coal
2 Optical properties of coal
3 Coal carbonization methods
4 Metallurgical coke production
5 Coal properties for metallurgical coke production
6 Optimal coal blending calculations for coking
7 Mid Term
8 Coke production in classical horizantal ovens
9 Enhancement facilities used in production of coking coal base
10 Coal combustion
11 Coal combustion systems
12 Gasification of coals
13 Coal gasification systems
14 Other chemical processes applied to coal

Recomended or Required Reading

Kömür Teknolojisi, M. Kemal, V. Arslan, DEÜ Müh. Fak. Yayınları, 2010, Izmir
Chemistry of coal utilisation, John Wiley & Sons, New York 1981
Industrial and Process Furnaces: Principles, Design and Operation, 9780750686921
(0750686928), Butterworth-Heinemann, 2008
Perry's Chemical Engineers' Handbook, Eighth Edition (Chemical Engineers Handbook),
Don Green, 2007.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.25 + ASG *0.25 +FIN *0.50
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.25 + ASG *0.25 +RST *0.50


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

LO1 ve LO2; Midterm
LO2 ve LO3; Homework
LO3, LO4 ve LO 5; Final

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Prof. Dr. Vedat ARSLAN: vedat.arslan@deu.edu.tr Tel: +90 232 301 75 18

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 12 2 24
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 2 26
Preparation for midterm exam 1 20 20
Preparation for final exam 1 20 20
Preparing assignments 1 15 15
Final 1 15 15
Midterm 1 15 15
Quiz etc. 1 10 10
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 145

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11
LO.14
LO.233
LO.3434
LO.44
LO.5

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