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Electrical Lighting and Heating Technology

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 410-2308/04
Abbreviation ELST
Course title Electrical Lighting and Heating Technology
Credits 6
Coordinating department Department of Electrical Power Engineering
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Vladimír Král, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

Lectures:
The principle of light origin, fundamentals of thermal transmittance.
Basic notions (terminology) of lightning and heat engineering.
Parameters of luminous appliances.
The summary of luminous and heat appliances.
Parameters of heat appliances.
Operational characteristics and maintaining of luminous and heat appliances.
The choice of luminous source type.
Safeness running of luminous and heat appliances.
Luminary and illuminative systems.
Electrical heating.
Projection of illuminative systems.
Projection of heating systems.
Reduction of illuminative and heating systems energy demanding.
Economical evaluation of illuminative and heating systems.

Exercises:
Training of lightning engineering basics.
Training of heating engineering basics.
Calculations, basic relations and analysis of luminous and heat source parameters.
Calculations and measuring of luminous sources parameters.
Calculations and measuring of luminaries.
Calculation and measuring of heat appliances parameters.
Calculation of illuminative systems.
Calculation of heating systems on the base of heat losses.
Measuring of luminous and heat appliances from the point of view of dangerous contact (touch) with parts under or without voltage.
Counting of practical examples which deal with luminary and luminous sources energy demands.
Counting of practical examples which deal with heating sources energy demands.
Electrical marking of luminous and heat appliances.
Using of computer technology in the projection process of illuminative and heating system.
Economical calculations of illuminative systems investment return.

Laboratories:
Non-contact temperature measurement.
Measurement of the luminance curve and calculation of related parameters.

Projects:
Calculation of energy consumption and costs for heating and hot water.
Calculation of standard illuminance.

E-learning

Materials are available at https://lms.vsb.cz/?lang=en.

Literature

Metaxas, A. C. Foundations of electroheat: a unified approach. Chichester: Wiley, 1996. ISBN 9780471956440 
Lighting Engineering 2002 (Indalux) [online]. [cit. 2017-12-12]. Dostupné z: https://issuu.com/lightonline/docs/lighting-handbook-indal-guide

Advised literature

Syllabi for the distance part of the combined study.