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Basics Heat Transfer and Combustion

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction English
Code 361-0309/04
Abbreviation Sd+Sp
Course title Basics Heat Transfer and Combustion
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Power Engineering
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Zdeněk Kadlec, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

910/5000
1. Types of heat sharing, brief characteristics, basic laws.
2. Fourier differential equation. Stationary conduction and heat transfer through a homogeneous unlimited planar and cylindrical wall.
3. Determination of surface temperatures and temperatures between layers.
4. Increasing the value of the heat transfer coefficient by ribbing. Heat insulation. Types of insulation materials and requirements.
5. Non-stationary heat conduction.
6. Theory of similarity in thermal convection. Heat transfer during free and forced convection.
7. Heat transfer by radiation in closed system.
8. Absolutely black body, gray body, real bodies.
9. Heat exchangers - classification, heat calculation, types of heat exchangers and use.
10. Statics of combustion. Perfect and imperfect combustion.
11. Quality evaluation of combustion process, combustion with excess air.
12 Combustion of solid fuels, combustion methods.
13. Combustion of liquid and gaseous fuels.
14. Combustion efficiency.

Literature

INCROPERA,F., DE WITT, D., Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfer, John Wiley & SONS, ISBN 0-471-38650-2
SMOOT, L., SMITH, P., Coal combustion and gasification, New York 1985, ISBN 0-306-41750-2

Advised literature

WILLIAMS A., POURKASHANIAN M.,JONES M., Combustion and gasification of coal, New Yeark 2000, ISBN 1-56032-549-6