Course code:
501A2		 Course name:
Industrial Chemistry

Academic year:

2024/2025.

Attendance requirements:

102A2 + 201A2

ECTS:

6

Study level:

basic academic studies, integrated basic and graduate academic studies

Study programs:

Chemistry: 3. year, summer semester, compulsory course

Chemical Education: 3. year, summer semester, compulsory course

Teachers:

Branimir S. Jovančićević, Ph.D.
full professor, Faculty of Chemistry, Studentski trg 12-16, Beograd

Goran M. Roglić, Ph.D.
full professor, Faculty of Chemistry, Studentski trg 12-16, Beograd

Ksenija A. Stojanović, Ph.D.
full professor, Faculty of Chemistry, Studentski trg 12-16, Beograd

Assistant:

Slađana D. Savić
teaching assistant, Faculty of Chemistry, Studentski trg 12-16, Beograd

Hours of instruction:

Weekly: three hours of lectures + three hours of labwork (3+0+3)

Goals:

Students should learn the fundamentals of the application of chemistry in industry. The syllabus includes the most important industrial processes, particularly the ones which are used in Serbia.

Outcome:

After successfully completing this course, students have a solid foundation for working in production processes and in laboratories of some factories.

Teaching methods:

Lectures, progress tests, experimental exercises, a professional internship (it has to be done before the final paper), educational field trip (not compulsory).

Extracurricular activities:

Educational field trip, a month-long professional internship, revising for the progress test and studying for the exam.

Coursebooks:

Main coursebooks:

  1. D. Vitorović: Chemical Technology, Naučna Knjiga, Belgrade, 1990. (449 pp) ISBN 86-23-22021-2
  2. G. Roglić: Internal Script, 2005.
  3. K. Stojanović: Internal Script, 2009.

Supplementary coursebooks:

  1. D. Vitorović, B. Jovančićević: Organic Geochemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, 2005. (249 pp) ISBN 86-7220-019-5
  2. P. Pfendt, K. Stojanović, A. Mihajlidi-Zelić, D. Relić: Praktikum iz industrijske hemije sa radnom sveskom, Hemijski fakultet Univerziteta u Beogradu, 2012. (140 pages) ISBN 978-86-7220-047-8

Additional material:

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  Course activities and grading method

Lectures:

5 points (3 hours a week)

Labwork:

10 points (3 hours a week)

Syllabus:

  1. Obtaining elements.
  2. Production of alloys.
  3. Production of glass.
  4. Production of pigments.
  5. Production of plastic masses and their testing.
  6. Granulometric analysis.
  7. Determination of the water hardness and water softening.
  8. Determination of oxygen consumption.
  9. Determination of the softening point of materials using ring and ball method.
  10. Determination of fat content using the Soxhlet method.
  11. Determination of iodine number.
  12. Determination of water content using the Dean-Stark method of distillation.
  13. Analysis of oils: ignition point and viscosity.
  14. Analyses of fuels using the Engler distillation.
  15. Determination of the group content and gas chromatographic analysis of n-alkanes in petroleum, diesel fuel, mineral motor oils and fuel oils.

Colloquia:

20 points

Oral exam:

65 points