Course detail

Practical Chemistry for Electrical Engineers

FEKT-BPC-PCEAcad. year: 2025/2026

Atoms, molecules, orbitals, hybridization. Reaction, oxidation, reduction. Materials for electrotechnique. Liquids, gases, solutions and their physical properties. Chemical equilibration and reaction rates. The introduction to laboratory technique. Corrosion, surface treatment of materials. The introduction to photochemistry and electrochemistry. Electrochemical methods, electrochemical impedance spectroscopy.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

5

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Entry knowledge

The subject is conceived as introduction to chemistry for students of electrical engineering, thus it does not requires any prerequisites except the knowledge of chemistry from secondary school and mandatory subjects of Electrotechnique I and II.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

The student will gain 20 points after performing all laboratory exercises and correct elaboration of all protocols. The final examination from laboratory knowledge will be scored by another 20 points. The minimal extent for elaboration of each laboratory exercise will be set by yearly actualized order of subject garant. Final oral examination will be scored by maximum of 60 points.
The conditions for successful passing will be set by yearly actualized order of subject garant.

Aims

The subject is framed to bring basic as well as applied knowledge in chemistry and electrochemistry to students of semestral projects, bachelor and diploma thesis. The experimental courses in electrochemical and electrotechnical laboratories also inhered to the subject. The attention is paid to manipulation with laboratory equipments together with precise, reproducible and safe fundamental analytical practises, such as preparation of solutions, filtration, titration and weighting.
The student will gain theoretic and applied knowledge in fundamentals of chemistry and electrochemistry. Based on this, the student will be able to precisely and safety perform any common laboratory practices, which are necessary for operation in chemical and electrochemical laboratories.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Not applicable.

Recommended reading

Antonín Růžička, Zdirad Žák, Aleš Mareček: Laboratorní technika a cvičení z anorganické chemie, s. 149 (CS)
Božena Kábelová, Ivana Pilátová, Zdenka Hanáková: Laboratorní technika II, s. 113, ISBN 80-214-1450-2 (CS)
Jaromír Tulka: Povrchové úpravy materiálů, ISBN 80-214-3062-4 (CS)
Jiří Barek, František Opekar, Karel Štulík: Elektroanalytická chemie, s. 188, ISBN 80-246-1146-5 (CS)
Miloslav Pekař: Přednášky z termodynamiky a elektrochemie, s. 148, ISBN 978-80-214-5079-0 (CS)
Peter Pelikán: Fyzikální chemie - struktura hmoty, ISBN 80-214-1583-6 (CS)

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme BPC-MET Bachelor's 3 year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Laboratory exercise

26 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer