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Compressors, Fans and Pumps

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 361-0507/07
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, repetition of thermomechanics and hydromechanics, a division of energy transformation machines and their use.
2. The compression of the known process? Compression isothermal, isentropic and polytropic with heat input and heat output.
3. Displacement compressors with a reciprocating movement of the piston, the ideal and the real machines.
4. Displacement compressors with the rotary movement of the piston, the shock compression and the shock expansion.
5. The regulation and control of a displacement compressors flow performance and pressure.
6. The ideal stage of radial compressors, a description, the energy transformation, the Euler's equation.
7. The actual stage of radial compressors, shapes of the rotor blades, the efficiency, the compression curve in the enthalpy-entropy diagram, the energy characteristics.
8. The ideal and the actual stage of the axial turbocompressor, the 2D bladed grid, vectors of velocities, basic parameters, angles of the stream, forces acting on a blade profile, the transformation of energy, the Euler's equation, losses, the efficiency of the transformation.
9. The axial fans (single stage in the design of stage: R+S, IS+R, the two-stages fans with the counterrotating rotors), the radial fans, the diagonal fans (Schicht's and Eck's fan).
10. The practical operation of compressor stations, the operating point, the practical measurement of energy characteristics, the humidity of the air, the pumping of the compressor and so on.
11. The regulation and control of a dynamic compressors flow performance and pressure.
12. The theory of the flow machines, the ideal and the actual flow machines, the schemes, description of their operation, the diagrams of velocity and the pressure.
13. The flow of gases and vapors through nozzles, the choice of the nozzles type, the calculation of the nozzles main dimensions, the critical values, the influence of a counterpressure.
14. Pumps - The geodetic height, the total transporting height and the manometric height, the maximum suction height of the pump. The transformation of energy, the operational measurements of the energy characteristics.
15. Parallel and serial cooperation of dynamic machines, the operating point.
Seminar on topics chosen by students

E-learning

All study materials (lectures, exercises, etc.) are available to students in a group on the MS Teams platform, which is always created for them before the start of the semester. Students will be added to the group by the teacher. Students will receive a direct link to the group by email.

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 .