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Logistics of Transmission Media

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 338-0550/01
Abbreviation LPM
Course title Logistics of Transmission Media
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Hydromechanics and Hydraulic Equipment
Course coordinator Ing. Jana Jablonská, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Physical properties of transported materials, grading curve, mean grain size, distribution of disperse systems and their physical properties.
2. Concentration, viscosity of suspensions, viscosity measurement .
3. Speed suspension, movement of material particles in the fluid flow.
4. Sedimentation velocity, sedimentation velocity in the limited environment, velocity of suspension.
5. Laminar flow of no Newtonian fluids, power of the flow equations, bingham of the flow equation.
6. Turbulent fluid flow and dispersion systems in the pipe - continuity equations and equations of motion for turbulent flow of fluids and dispersion systems, friction pressure loss in a circular pipe and the Toms effect.
7. Basic theoretical knowledge about the flow of suspensions - motion of a solid particle in a pipe, diffusion theory of suspension flow, gravitational theory. Calculation of hydraulic transport parameters, pressure drop during suspension flow, Durand function. Applications - floating suction dredgers.
8. Machinery and technology of hydraulic transport - distribution pipes, valves, pumps.
9. Machinery and technology of hydraulic transport - dispensers, characteristics of pipes and pumps in the flow of suspension, ejector.
10. Calculation of pneumatic transport parameters, basic quantities, calculation of pressure drop.
11. Machinery and technology of pneumatic transport.
12. Container transport in pipeline - speed characteristics of container flow, pressure drop, application - pipeline mail.
13. Wear of machinery - erosive, abrasive, corrosive. The choice of materials.
14. Mathematical modelling of flow with particles.

Literature

GOVIER, G., Aziz, K. The Flow of Complex Mixtures in Pipes. VNB New York, 1972.
CROWE C. T., MICHAELIDES E. E., SCHWARZKOPF J. D. Multiphase Flow Handbook. CRC Press, 2017, 1396 p. ISBN 10:1498701019.
CROWE C. T., SCHWARZKOPF J. D., SOMMERFELD M., TSUJI Y. Multiphase Flows with Droplets and Particles. CRC Press, 2011, 505 p. ISBN 13:978-1-4398-4051-1.

Advised literature

INCROPERA, F. P., DEWITT, D. P., BERGMAN, T .L., LAVINE, A. S. Fundamantals of Heat and Mass Transfer. John Wiley a Sons: 2006. 995 str. ISBN-10-0-471-45728-0.
SOBOTA, J., VLASAK, P., ZWORSKI, P., KOTLINSKI, R., ALEKSANDROV,V., PETRYKA, L., PLEWA, F. Systems and technologies for mining of nodules from ocean floor (Systemy i technologie wydobycia konkrecji z dna oceanow), Wspolczesne problemy inzynierii srodowiska. Vol. IV., AWA, Wroclaw (Poland): 2005. s.140. ISBN 83-89189-84-4 2005. (in Poland, Russian, English).