Course detail
Process and Power Engineering and Legislation
FSI-KEL Acad. year: 2023/2024 Winter semester
Planning and design of process and power systems require knowledge of both current and upcoming legislative limitations. In the course, students will get acquainted with essential parts of legislation related to design, construction and operation of process and power engineering units and industrial plants. They will learn about regulations for environmental protection, the use of natural resources and proces safety. A part of the course is also devoted to legal liability, protection of intellectual property and final products compliance with legislation.
Language of instruction
Czech
Number of ECTS credits
4
Supervisor
Department
Entry knowledge
Mass and heat balance calculations, mechanisms of pollutant emissions formation, design of process and power systems, statistics.
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
SEMINARS: Regular and active attendance is obligatory. A minimum number of 20 points from course assignments and the final presentation must be reached.
EXAM: The exam is both written and oral. It must be passed successfully, i.e. a minimum number of 30 points must be reached.
FINAL GRADE: The final grade is based on the sum of points obtained from the course assignments and the exam part. The course evaluation follows a standard procedure (less than 50 points – F, [50,60) points – E, [60,70) points – D, [70,80) points – C, [80,90) points – B, 90 points and more – A).
Participation in the seminar is regularly checked. In justified cases, an absence at a seminar may be substituted by an individual project (in the form of practical case study).
Aims
– To get acquainted with essential parts of legislation related to design, construction and operation of process and power engineering units and industrial plants.
- To become able to apply gained knowledge to a set of typical process units and industrial plants.
Students will learn essential parts of legislation related to design and operation of process units. They will learn to apply gained knowledge of regulations in engineering practice. Students will be able to evaluate proces parameters with respect to related legislation.
The study programmes with the given course
Programme N-PRI-P: Process Engineering, Master's, compulsory
Programme RRTES_P: Risk Management of Technical and Economic Systems, Master's
specialization RRTS: Risk Management of Technical Systems, compulsory-optional
Type of course unit
Lecture
26 hours, optionally
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
1. Introduction, legal liability.
2. Prevention of major accidents caused by hazardous chemical substances.
3. Risk assessment in major accidents.
4. Environmental protection I.
5. Environmental protection II.
6. Technical standards.
7. Legal framework for the construction of industrial plants.
8. Legal framework for energy management and selected process and power units.
9. Placing products on the market.
10. The Waste Act and its implementing decrees
11. Intellectual property protection.
12. Ecological footprints.
13. Solution to model examples of typical industrial processes.
Exercise
13 hours, compulsory
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
The course exercises will cover the following topics:
Legal liability.
Classification of hazardous chemicals.
Major accident scenarios.
Flue gas and wastewater quality measurement and evaluation
Wastewater cleaning.
Energy laws.
Placing products on the market.
The Waste Act and its implementing decrees.
Ecological footprints.
Presentation and assessment of course projects.