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Course Name	Turkish	Solid Fuel Conversion Tech.
	English	Solid Fuel Conversion Tech.
Course Code	KMM 505E	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	-	3	3	-	-
Course Language		English
Course Coordinator		Serdar Yaman
Course Objectives		To provide information on solid fuels such as coal, oil-shale, and biomass. To predict the effects of physical, chemical and thermal properties of solid fuels on conversion processes. To study the solid fuel conversion processes such as pyrolysis, gasification, liquefaction, carbonization, and combustion with respect to thermodynamics and reaction kinetics. To analyze large scale solid fuel conversion processes, working conditions, and equipments used. To provide information on the air-borne emissions resulting from the conversion processes, and environmental impact.
Course Description		Introduction to fuel science (world fossil energy reserves, historical perspective of fuels); oil shales, coal, biomass definition and terminology, mineral matter, macerals, thermodynamics and kinetics for solid fuel gasification, pyrolysis process; coal liquefaction, asphaltite structure, conversion and characterization, principal analytical methods; environmental aspects of fuel science, combustion mechanism of solid fuels, combustion systems, and air-borne emissions.
Course Outcomes		M.Sc. students who successfully pass this course gain knowledge, skills and proficiency in the following subjects (or: M.Sc. students who take this course gain knowledge, skills and proficiency in the following subjects ); 1. The types, formation, and structures of solid fuels. 2. Effects of the physical and chemical properties of solid fuels on conversion processes. 3. The main characteristics of conversion processes such as pyrolysis, gasification, liquefaction, carbonization, and combustion, and behavior of solid fuels during these processes. 4. Modern approaches in conversion of solid fuels. 5. Environmental effects of the solid fuel conversion technologies.
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Textbook		R.Kandiyoti, A.Herod, K.Bartle, “Solid Fuels and Heavy Hydrocarbon Liquids : Thermal Characterization and Analysis”, Elsevier, 2006.
Other References		1) C.Higman, M. Van der Burgt, “Gasification”, 2nd edition, Elsevier, 2008. 2) B.G.Miller, D.A.Tillman, “Combustion Issues for Solid Fuel Systems”, Elsevier, 2008. 3) J.G. Speight, “Handbook of Coal Analysis”, John Wiley and Sons, 2005. 4) D.L.Klass, “Biomass for Renewable Energy, Fuels, and Chemicals”, Elsevier, 1998. 5) A.Ots, “Oil Shale Fuel Combustion”, Eesti Energia AS, 2006.

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