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Ukončeno v akademickém roce 2020/2021

Electrical Heating Technology

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction English
Code 410-4116/02
Abbreviation ETT
Course title Electrical Heating Technology
Credits 8
Coordinating department Department of Electrical Power Engineering
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Vladimír Král, Ph.D.

Osnova předmětu

Lectures:
The fundaments of heat transfer, conduction, convection and radiation.
The analogy between thermal and electric field.
Special constructional and material problems, the temperature measuring.

The resistance electroheat. Direct and indirect heating. The calculation of heating elements.
Electric heating.
Infrared radiation.
Induction electroheating equipments. The physical principles of heat transfer. Equipments for melting, diathermy and surface heating. Power supplies for induction heating.
Dielectric electroheating equipments. Power supplies. Practical use. Microwave heating.
Arc furnaces. Physical principles of electric arc. Circle diagram, unbalance of the supply. Electric equipments of industrial arc furnaces.
Energy budget of arc furnaces. Welding, power supplies for welding.
Plasma electroheating equipments. Examples of practical use.
Electron electroheating equipments.
Laser electroheating equipments.
World research and up-to-date findings in Electroheat.
The new results of energy budget research of electric arc at the Department of Electric Power Engineering, VŠB-TUO

Exercises:
Information about the requirements for passing the exercises. Safety considerations. The organization of the work in the labs. Instructions for elaboration of lab task.
The physical fundaments of heat transfer. Quantities, symbols and units. The relations between mechanical and thermal energy. The heating and cooling process.
The analogy between thermal and electric field. Heat conduction. The cooling of electric equipments and semiconductors.
The convection and radiation.
Resistance electroheating equipments. Design of the heating element.

Direct and indirect resistance heating. Resistance furnaces. Calculation of the heating period.
Induction electroheating equipments.
Arc electroheating equipments. The circle diagram of arc furnace. Control of furnace transformer. Reactor. The short circuit of arc furnace.
The design of induction furnace. Dielectric heating.

Laboratories:
Lab 1: Direct resistance furnace.
Lab 2: Symmetrization of one-phase load
Lab 3: Measure on induction furnace.

Povinná literatura

A.C. Metaxas: Foundations of Electroheat A Unified Approach. Book published by University of Cambridge UK 1996 .

Hradílek, Z.: Modelling of a Free Burning Electric Arc by Control of the Power Programme of the Steelmaking Arc Furnace. Proceedings XII. th. Congress International Union Electroheat 1992 Montred Canada, ISBN 2-89310-121-6 
Hradílek, Z.: Energy savings using reactor with controlled power regime EAF. XIII. World Congress BNCO - UIE 1996 Birningham U.K. Proceedings, ISBN 186126007X .
Hradílek, Z.: Energy savings using reactor with controlled power regime EAF. Elektrowärme Int. Vulkan Verlag Essen 1997, No 4, B 154-155 BRD, ISBN 0340-3521-IK-5548F.
Hradílek, Z.: Teoretical aspects of alternative proposals of electric heating. Sborník vědeckých prací VŠB TUO 1999.
Hradílek, Z.: Alternative proposal of electric heating in closed spaces. U.I.E. Congress Lisabon Portugal 2000.
Hradílek, Z.: at. all: Cooperation on Engineering Education Computer aided disign and Work simulation of Electric Furnaces and Heaters. International Conference ICEE 1999, Ostrava, Proceedings.

Doporučená literatura

.A.C. Metaxas:
Foundations of Electroheat A Unified Approach. Book published by University of Cambridge UK 1996 .
Hradílek, Z.: Modelling of a Free Burning Electric Arc by Control of the Power Programme of the Steelmaking Arc Furnace. Proceedings XII. th. Congress International Union Electroheat 1992 Montred Canada, ISBN 2-89310-121-6 
Hradílek, Z.: Energy savings using reactor with controlled power regime EAF. XIII. World Congress BNCO 8211; UIE 1996 Birningham U.K. Proceedings, ISBN 186126007X .
Hradílek, Z.: Energy savings using reactor with controlled power regime EAF. Elektrowärme Int. Vulkan Verlag Essen 1997, No 4, B 154-155 BRD, ISBN 0340-3521-IK-5548F.
Hradílek, Z.: Teoretical aspects of alternative proposals of electric heating. Sborník vědeckých prací VŠB TUO 1999.
Hradílek, Z.: Alternative proposal of electric heating in closed spaces. U.I.E. Congress Lisabon Portugal 2000.
Hradílek, Z.: at. all: Cooperation on Engineering Education Computer aided disign and Work simulation of Electric Furnaces and Heaters. International Conference ICEE 1999, Ostrava, Proceedings.