Design and Process Engineering
· Designing, construction, calculation, technology of manufacturing, technical preparation of manufacturing including assembly and testing,
· Thermal and nuclear power plant devices such as steam and combustion turbines, steam generators, steam power plants and heating plants including nuclear power stations, industrial power engineering and their environmental aspects,
· Water turbines, hydrodynamic and hydrostatic pumps, piping systems, hydroelectric power plants, and pumping stations,
· Machinary and devices for chemical industry, food-stuff industry, and biotechnological treatment lines,
· Construction, modelling and theoretical studies of machines and devices for cutting, forming machines, industrial robots, and manipulators,
· Machine parts and mechanisms, methodology of designing machine elements and working mechanisms of general application with consideration of stochastic qualities of inputs, including the application of special types of machines and devices,
· Cars, vans and lorries, buses, trailers, semi-trailers, and motorcycles,
· Combustion engines for all types of vehicle drives, simulation of combustion engine thermomechanical systems, dynamics of driving gear, engine accessories, ecology,
· Machines and devices for in-plant handling of material and handling between operations, for the mining and transport of building materials, for passenger conveyance in buildings,
· Aerodynamic calculation and designing, flight mechanics, fatigue and durability of aircraft constructions, aeroelasticity of aircraft,
· Quality of machine industry production.

prof. Ing. Václav Píštěk, DrSc.

1. Effective way of aligning equipment selection and technology in waste/biomass-to-energy systems

   The work will be focused on up-to-date way of designing apparatuses for technology and energy systems, especially for the waste-to-energy systems and biomass-to-energy systems (including those with contaminated biomass). It will be particularly dealt with the selection and suitable structural proposal of individual apparatuses using mathematical models and their optimal "insertion" into relevant technologies with regard to meeting the applicable emission limits. The created methodology will involve, among other things, analyses of costs for investment,, energy demand, operating costs and potential risks in terms of the key equipment structural design. Attention will be also paid to layout of selected technological lines with respect to the selection of key pieces of equipment and their involvement into the overall technology. Up-to-date software systems, in-house mathematical models, data from real processes as well as own "know-how" will be used during processing the thesis.

   Tutor: Stehlík Petr, prof. Ing., CSc., dr. h. c.