Course detail

Chemistry of Building Materials

FAST-C10Acad. year: 2020/2021

Select chapters of basic and physical chemistry, chemical bonds, kinetics of chemical reactions, thermochemistry, phase balances, dispersion systems, dissociation, pH value, hydrolysis, and electrochemistry.
Natural and secondary raw materials for building industry. Chemistry of glass. Airy and hydraulic binders, production, chemical properties, setting and hardening. Corrosion of hardened binders and aggregates in the composite materials.
Chemical properties of others building materials, their degradation and protection.
Chemical and electrochemical properties of metals, their corrosion and protection.
Chemical properties of drinking, water, waste water for concrete production and impacting water. Water treatment. Air, air pollutions, atmosphere.
Select chapters of organic chemistry. Chemical composition and properties of wood, bitumen, carbon polymers and silicones.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

4

Guarantor

doc. RNDr. Pavel Rovnaník, Ph.D.

Department

Institute of Chemistry (CHE)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Not applicable.

Prerequisites

Elements atoms composition, inorganic nomenclature, basic stoichio-metric calculations, basic chemical laws, periodic system, acids and bases, anorganic nomenclature, elements and their compounds trained on secondary schools, basic knowledge of organic chemistry, hydrocar-bons and their derivatives, basic organic nomenclature.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Not applicable.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Not applicable.

Course curriculum

1. Composition of nucleous, isotopes, radioactivity.
2. Atomic structure, quantum numbers, Pauli Principle, Aufbau Principle, Hund’s rule, periodic trends in atomic properties, periodic table.
3. Atomic masses, the moles, molecular weights, chemical equations, stoichiometry, chemical bonds.
4. Chemical kinetics, reaction rates, activated complex, catalysis. Thermochemistry, Hess’s and Lavoasier’s laws. Phase equilibriums, gases, liquids, solids, and crystallography.
5. Dispersion orders - gels, suspensions, aerosols, emulsion, colloids, water solutions, and tezides.
6. The properties of chosen inorganic compounds of carbon, silicon.
7. Chemical composition and properties of natural and secondary raw materials. Production, composition and chemical properties of lime, gypsum plaster, Sorel binder.
8. Production, chemical properties and composition of hydraulic binders – Portland cement, hydraulic lime and high alumina cement. Chemistry and degradation of glass.
9. Corrosion of binders, protection against degradation processes.
10. Electrochemistry, galvanic cells, standard reduction potentials, electrolysis, metals and metal corrosion.
11. Chemistry of water and atmosphere.
12. Chemical composition of wood and deterioration of timber construction. Chemical properties of bitumen, chemical durability.
13. Composition of polymers based on the carbon chain, their chemical stability. Composition and properties of silicones, chemical durability.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

Getting of basic knowledges in general and building chemistry, practice at laboratory operations, calculations of heterogene systems constitutions, chemical nomenclature.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

CHANG, Raymond: Chemistry. McGrow Hill New York 1991
ZUMDAHL, Steven: Chemistry. D.C.Heath and Company, Toronto 1986

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hours, optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. RNDr. Pavel Rovnaník, Ph.D.

Syllabus

1. Composition of nucleous, isotopes, radioactivity. 2. Atomic structure, quantum numbers, Pauli Principle, Aufbau Principle, Hund’s rule, periodic trends in atomic properties, periodic table. 3. Atomic masses, the moles, molecular weights, chemical equations, stoichiometry, chemical bonds. 4. Chemical kinetics, reaction rates, activated complex, catalysis. Thermochemistry, Hess’s and Lavoasier’s laws. Phase equilibriums, gases, liquids, solids, and crystallography. 5. Dispersion orders - gels, suspensions, aerosols, emulsion, colloids, water solutions, and tezides. 6. The properties of chosen inorganic compounds of carbon, silicon. 7. Chemical composition and properties of natural and secondary raw materials. Production, composition and chemical properties of lime, gypsum plaster, Sorel binder. 8. Production, chemical properties and composition of hydraulic binders – Portland cement, hydraulic lime and high alumina cement. Chemistry and degradation of glass. 9. Corrosion of binders, protection against degradation processes. 10. Electrochemistry, galvanic cells, standard reduction potentials, electrolysis, metals and metal corrosion. 11. Chemistry of water and atmosphere. 12. Chemical composition of wood and deterioration of timber construction. Chemical properties of bitumen, chemical durability. 13. Composition of polymers based on the carbon chain, their chemical stability. Composition and properties of silicones, chemical durability.

Exercise

26 hours, compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. RNDr. Pavel Rovnaník, Ph.D.