Course Details

Building Chemistry

Academic Year 2023/24

BC001 course is part of 2 study plans

B-K-C-SI (N) / VS Summer Semester 1st year

B-P-C-SI (N) / VS Summer Semester 1st year

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. Air and hydraulic binders, production, chemical properties, setting and hardening. Corrosion of hardened binders and aggregates in the composite materials.
Chemical properties of other building materials, their degradation and protection.
Chemical and electrochemical properties of metals, their corrosion and protection.
Chemical properties of water, waste water, water for concrete production and impact water. Atmosphere, and air pollution.
Selected chapters of organic chemistry. Chemical composition and properties of wood, bitumen, carbon polymers and silicones.

Course Guarantor

Institute

Objective

The selected chapters of general and physical chemistry that are in relation to the chemistry of building materials.
Chemistry of inorganic and organic building materials, their chemical composition, processes of the formation of solid structure and the chemical corrosion processes.

Knowledge

Student gets the aim of subject under control, i. e. the selected chapters of general, physical, inorganic and organic chemistry that are in relation to the chemistry of building materials and to the chemistry of water.

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 mole, molecular weight, 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 structures. 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.

Prerequisites

Atomic structure of the elements, periodic table, basic chemical laws, inorganic terminology, simple stoichiometric calculations, basic terms of organic chemistry, an overview of the hydrocarbons and their derivates, principals of organic compounds nomenclature

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

5 credits

Semester

both

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Specification of controlled instruction, the form of instruction, and the form of compensation of the absences

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

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

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 mole, molecular weight, 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 structures. 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

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

1. Information regardeing laboratory session 2. Acids 3. Bases 4. Neutralization and hydrolysis of slts 5. Oxidation and reduction 6. Lime, plaster of Paris 7. Cements 8. Other building materials 9. Water 10. Water in consuption and the environment 11. Metals 12. Properties of selected organic compounds 13. Final test