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Terminated in academic year 2012/2013

Compressors, Fans and Pumps

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 361-0507/02
Abbreviation KVC
Course title Compressors, Fans and Pumps
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Power Engineering
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Kamil Kolarčík, CSc.

Subject syllabus

1 Introduction, repeating thermodynamics and hydromechanics.
2 Compressors ideal jet theory, diagram, description of, simplistic arguments.
3 Flow of gases and vapors through nozzles, reheat factor, calculate the main dimensions of nozzles, the critical value, the effect of backpressure. Theory
4 Real jet compressors, boundary layer theory.
5 The ideal degree of radial compressors, description, energy transformation, Euler's equation.
6 Actual degree of radial compressor rotor blade shapes and their influence on the construction of machines, efficiency, pompáž, with a diagram, the energy characteristics.
7 Axial vane compressors, basic characteristics, methods of solution, flow angles, the forces acting on the profile.
8 Ideal stage axial compressor, transition energies, Euler's equation, energy characteristics, velocity triangles.
9 The actual stage axial compressor, losses in energy transformation efficiency with the diagram, the energy characteristics.
10 Fans: axial shift with the degree R + S VS + R, counter-rotating rotors, radial, diagonal
11 Practical operation of compressor stations, measurement, humidity
12 Pumps: Theory. Geodetic height, head, manometric height, limit height of the suction pump. Transformation of energy.
13 Pumps: process measurement, the energy characteristics. Parallel and serial dynamic collaboration tools, working point. Control Performance.

Literature

BLOCH, P. Heinz. A Practical Guide to Compressor Technology – Second Edition. New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, 2006, 555 p. ISBN: 978-0-471-72793-4 .
BORREMANS, Marc. Pumps and Compressors. 1. Chichester, West Sussex: John Wiley And Sons, 2019, 512 s. ISBN 978-1-119-53414-3 .
J. MORAN, Michael, Howard N. SHAPIRO, Daisie D. BOETTNER a Margaret B. BAILEY. Fundamentals of Engineering Thermodynamics, 9th Edition. 9th Edition. New York: John Wiley, 2018. ISBN 978-1-119-39138-8 .

Advised literature

LOGAN, E.Jr.: Handbook of Turbomachinery (Mechanical Engineering, No. 158) (2 ed.). New York: Marcel Dekker, 2003. ISBN 0-8247-0995-0 .
KHAN, A., A.; GORLA, R.,S.R. Turbomachinery: Design and Theory. New York: Marcel Dekker, 2003. ISBN 0-8247-0980-2 .
GIAMPAOLO, T. Compressor Handbook: Principles and Practice. Lilburn: The Fairmont Press, 2010, 361 p. ISBN: 0-88173-616-3 
GÜLICH, J. F. Centrifugal Pumps. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2008, 923 p. ISBN: 978-3-540-73694-3 .
BRENNEN, E. Christopher. Hydrodynamics of Pumps. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994, 293 p. ISBN: 0-19-856442-2 .
WAHREN, Uno. Practical Introduction to Pumping Technology. Houston: Elsevier Science & Technology Books, 1997, 208 p. ISBN: 0884156869 .