Skip to main content
Skip header

Refrigeration Systems and Heat Pumps

Type of study Doctoral
Language of instruction English
Code 361-0929/03
Abbreviation CHZ_D
Course title Refrigeration Systems and Heat Pumps
Credits 10
Coordinating department Department of Power Engineering
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Mojmír Vrtek, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Introduction, purpose of refrigeration systems and heat pums.
2. Methods of generation low temperatures, basic theory of refrigeration cycles.
3. Compressor vapor cycle one-stage.
4. Binary mixtures. Heat transfer fluids.
5. Refrigerants - solving tools.
6. Properties of basic types of refrigerants.
7. Other types of compressor refrigeration cycles – ejector, variants of two-stage cycles, cascade cycles.
8. Sorption cycles – absorption NH3-H2O, H2O-LiBr, adsorption cycles
9. Gas refrigeration cycles
10. Air liquefaction, rectification
11. Basic mechanical components of refrigeration equipment and heat pump
12. Heat pums – types.
13. Heat pumps, connecting to space heating system, assessment of heat pump - auxiliary energy source energy balance
14. Evaluation of the effectiveness of basic types of heat pumps – energy, exergy and macroenergetic

Literature

DOSSAT R., J.; HORAN T., J. Principles of Refrigeration. Fifth Edition. Upper Saddle River : Pearson Education, Inc., 2002. 454 p. ISBN 0-13-027270-1.
WHITMAN, W. C; JOHNSON, W. M.; TOMCZYCK, J. A. Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Technology. 5E (5th Bk&CD edition). Thomson Delmar Learning, 2004. ISBN 1401837654.

Advised literature

LANGLEY, B., C. Heat pump technology. 3. ed. Upper Saddle River : Pearson Education, Inc., 2002. 536 s. ISBN 0-13-033965-2.