• 1.Thermodynamic laws, state and technological quantities, volume work and technical work, cyclic processes.
• 2.Heat diagrams, entropy, irreversibility of processes in practice.
• 3. Flow of liquids, terminology, energetic balance, flow loss in real systems of building materials.
• 4. Thermodynamics of vapours, real gases and vapours, heat diagrams.
• 5. Diagrams application, the state of vapours and their changes, mixing of vapours and of vapour with water.
• 6. Thermodynamics of humid air, state variables, state equations.
• 7. Molliere i-x diagram and its applications, state transformations, mixing of air flows.
• 8. Heat transmission and mass transfer, principles of the drying process, statics of drying, balances, type of dryers.
• 9. Solid, liquid and gaseous fuels, components of fuels, possibilities of alternative fuels, predictions concerning the securing of primary energy sources.
• 10. Fundamentals of combustion, combustion statics, quantity of air and of combustion gases.
• 11. Principles of kilns heat balance, survey of kiln units for the production of building materials, burners.

The seminar focuses on theory and calculations. Students are required to have a calculator, ruler and pencil.

1. The three basic processes of ideal gas, temperature measurement, thermal expansion.
2. First law of thermodynamics and its application in the four basic processes, calculations of heat and work.
3. Second law of thermodynamics, entropy, reversile and irreversible processes, the Carnot cycle (first part).
4. Second law of thermodynamics, entropy, reversible and irreversible processes, the Carnot cycle (second part).
5. Damp steam, saturated steam, superheated steam, basic terminology, credit test I.
6. Damp steam, saturated steam, superheated steam, calculations.
7. Thermodynamics of humid air, terminology concerning heat diagram of humid air, simple calculations.
8. Thermodynamics of humid air, heat balance of dryers.
9. Heat exchange, heat balance of tunel kiln (first part).
10. Heat balance of tunel kiln (second part).
11. Credit test II.