1. komponenta

Lecture type	Total
Lectures	30
Laboratory exercises	30

* Load is given in academic hour (1 academic hour = 45 minutes)

Course aim:
To combine knowledge from previous courses and apply it in the field of electrochemical reactors and electrochemical processes as well as on corrosion processes and corrosion protection systems. To acquaintance students with the basic principles of optimizing and modelling of electrochemical processes and systems.
Week 1
Introduction to electrochemical engineering. Equilibrium cell potential and Gibbs energy. Cell voltage. Characteristic parameters of electrochemical process.

Week 2
Mass balance of electrochemical processes. Heat balances of electrochemical processes. Joule heating. Heat balances for aluminium production process..

Week 3
Current and potential distribution

Week 4
Mass transport in electrochemical reactor (diffusion, convection, migration). Hydrodynamic boundary layer and Nernst diffusion layer. Forced and free convection in electrochemical reactor. Dimensionless numbers defining mass transport in electrochemical reactor.

Week 5
Electrochemical cell and electrode design, separators (membranes and diaphragms), electrode materials and catalysis. Process optimisation.

Week 6
Aluminium production (Hall-Heroult Process). Chlor-alkali production. Electroplating.

Week 7
Exam

8. Week
Introduction: Corrosion Costs and purpose of the study of corrosion; corrosion process (theory of homogeneous corrosion); steady state of
the corrosion process; common corrosion reactions; analogy of corrosion and galvanic cell;calculating the enthalpy change of the free corrosion reactions - EMF of the corrosion cell.

9.Week
Thermodynamics of corrosion process Nernst equation and Pourbaix diagrams, corrosion potential, measuring the potential of corrosion systems;

10. Week
Kinetics of corrosion process - rate of corrosion, corrosion system out of equilibrium; polarization; theory of mixed potentials (kinetics of uniform corrosion), polarization resistance, Wagner Traud equation;

11. week
Localized corrosion - causes of localized corrosion; galvanic corrosion; potential and current distribution in a galvanic cell; corrosion due to the formation of the concentration cell; corrosion in crevices; pitting corrosion; stress corrosion cracking; corrosion fatigue;

12.week
Localized corrosion - hydrogen induced cracking and other forms of corrosive damage caused by hydrogen;
intergranular corrosion; selective dissolution; erosion corrosion; other types of corrosion in conjunction with mechanical action of the environment: cavitation, fretting corrosion and wear corrosion.
13. week
Cathodic protection; types of cathodic protection systems, principles of cathodic protection, protection criteria, design of cathodic protection systems; anodic protection; failure analysis. Corrosion inhibitors
14. week
Corrosion protection methods: protection by organic coatings, design of organic coating protection system, metallic coatings, inorganic coatings for corrosion protection;
15. week
Preliminary exam

Student obligations:
1. Exam attendance
2. Regular attendance of lectures and laboratory exams
3. Timely submission of laboratory reports (within 7 days).
4. Solving numerical problems

FORMS OF EDUCATION:
Lectures, laboratory practice, field study classes

KNOWLEDGE TESTING AND EVALUATION:
-Homework
-preliminary exams
- writing exam
- oral exam
MONITORING OF THE COURSE QUALITY AND SUCCESSFULNESS:
Student survey.

Methodic requirements:
Mass and energy transfer, Electrochemistry, passing of all exams from 1st academic year, finished Electrochemistry classes.

Learning outcomes:
1. To apply fundamental knowledge from electrochemistry and chemical engineering to the development of electrochemical reactors
2. Discover problems that may occur during application of electrochemical processes
3. Compute the optimal process parameters of experimental examples
4. Summarize on the basic electrochemical processes that are conducted in practice
5. To apply fundamental knowledge from electrochemistry to solving practical corrosion problems.
6. Interpret, descriptively and mathematically corrosion phenomena and processes.
7. Interpret the meaning of measured quantities in corrosion.
8. To use electrochemical equipment.

Learning outcomes of the undergraduate study of Applied Chemistry at the programme level:
1. solve qualitative and quantitative problems using the appropriate chemical principles and theories
2. apply knowledge in practice, in particular in problem-solving, relating to both qualitative and quantitative information
3.apply standard laboratory procedures and instrumentation in synthetic and analytical work, in relation to both organic and inorganic systems
4.apply techniques and methods to measure chemical properties, events or changes
5. interpret data derived from laboratory observations and measurements in terms of their significance and relation to appropriate theory

1. To apply fundamental knowledge from electrochemistry and chemical engineering to the development of electrochemical reactors
2. Discover problems that may occur during application of electrochemical processes
3. Compute the optimal process parameters of experimental examples
4. Summarize on the basic electrochemical processes that are conducted in practice
5. To apply fundamental knowledge from electrochemistry to solving practical corrosion problems.
6. Interpret, descriptively and mathematically corrosion phenomena and processes.
7. Interpret the meaning of measured quantities in corrosion.
8. To use electrochemical equipment

1. Course materials: https://moodle.srce.hr/2020-2021/course/view.php?id=77543, M. Kraljić Roković, H Otmačić Čurković,
2. Korozija i zaštita konstrukcijskih materijala, Ema Stupnišek Lisac, Fakultet kemijskog inženjerstva i tehnologije, Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, 2007.
3. Electrochemical Engineering: Science and Technology in Chemical and Other Industries, Springer, Berlin, 1999. (only selected parts), H. Wendt, G. Kreysa, Springer, 1999.
4. Industrial Electrochemistry, , 1990. (only selected parts), D. Pletcher, F. C. Walsch, Chapman and Hall, 1980.

Enrollment :
Passed : Analytical chemistry I
Passed : Basics of electrical engineering
Passed : Basics of mechanical engineering
Passed : Calculus II
Passed : Computer programming and application
Passed : General chemistry
Passed : Inorganic chemistry
Passed : Physics II

Mandatory course - Regular studij - Applied Chemistry