| Individual course details | ||||||||||
| Study programme | Physics | |||||||||
| Chosen research area (module) | Computer and Applied physics | |||||||||
| Nature and level of studies | Undergraduate studies | |||||||||
| Name of the course | Plasma application in industry and environmental protection | |||||||||
| Professor (lectures) | Bratislav Obradović | |||||||||
| Professor/associate (examples/practical) | Bratislav Obradović | |||||||||
| Professor/associate (additional) | ||||||||||
| ECTS | 4 | Status (required/elective) | elective | |||||||
| Access requirements | Electromagnetism | |||||||||
| Aims of the course | To introduce students to the basics of the plasma source used in industry and environmental protection. | |||||||||
| Learning outcomes | Adopting basic concepts related to plasma technology. Acquiring basic knowledge necessary for using plasma sources. Preparing students for the practical use of plasma in industrial processes and environmental protection. | |||||||||
| Contents of the course | ||||||||||
| Lectures | 1. Types of electrical gas discharges (glow discharge, corona, arc discharge, spark, radio-frequency discharges, microwave discharges) 2. Elementary reactions in plasma; control of plasma processes. 3. Qualitative and quantitative elemental analysis in spectrochemistry 4. Surface treatment by plasma (cutting and welding, hardening, surface treatment, etching). 5. Plasma application in micro- and nano-technologies. 6. Plasma-chemical processes in metallurgy. 7. Plasma as a source of radiation (fluorescent lamps, lasers). 8. Electric discharges in nature and protection. 9. Plasma and thermonuclear fusion. 10. Greenhouse gases and other harmful gases; plasma treatment of gases (NOx, SO2, CO2) and volatile organic compounds (VOCs); 11. Electrostatic precipitators and ozoniers. 12. Plasma treatment of aqueous solutions; 13. Treatment of hazardous solid and liquid waste by plasma (medicine, pharmacy, chemical industry). Plasma-chemical conversion of fuel and hydrogen production; syngas. 15. Plasma application in combustion. | |||||||||
| Examples/ practical classes | Experimental exercises will be adapted to the subject of plasma application studied at faculty. Students will provide experimental exercises alone, but with the necessary attendance of teachers. | |||||||||
| Recommended books | ||||||||||
| 1 | Alexander Fridman, Plasma Chemistry, Cambridge University Press, New York, 2008 | |||||||||
| 2 | Roth J.R., Industrial Plasma Engineering, Institute of Physics Publishing, Bristol and Philadelphia, 2001. | |||||||||
| 3 | Van Veldhuizen E.M. (ed), Electrical Discharges for Environmental Purposes 2000 - Fundamentals and Applications, NOVA, New York, 2000. | |||||||||
| 4 | Lieberman M.A. and Lichtenberg A.J., Principles of Plasma Discharges and Materials Processing, John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1994. | |||||||||
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| Number of classes (weekly) | ||||||||||
| Lectures | Examples&practicals | Student project | Additional | |||||||
| 2 | 2 | |||||||||
| Teaching and learning methods | Lectures and experimental exercises. | |||||||||
| Assessment (maximal 100) | ||||||||||
| assesed coursework | mark | examination | mark | |||||||
| coursework | 10 | written examination | ||||||||
| practicals | 30 | oral examination | 60 | |||||||
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