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Terminated in academic year 2009/2010

Electrical Light and Heat

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 451-0515/01
Abbreviation bc-EST
Course title Electrical Light and Heat
Credits 4
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:
Measuring of luminous sources parameters.
Measuring of luminaries.
Measuring of heat appliances parameters.
Measuring of luminous and heat appliances from the point of view of dangerous contact (touch) with parts with or without voltage.

Literature

Light Calculations and Measurements : an intorduction to the system of quantities and units in light-technology and to photometry [***3174151612 - number in VSB-TU Ostrava central library].
Heat transfer [***3174116955 - number in VSB-TU Ostrava central library].
Metaxas, A. C.: Foundations of electroheat a unified approach. ISBN 0471 956449.

Advised literature

Habel, J.: Světelná technika a osvětlení, FCC Public Praha, 1995.
Rada, J. a kol.: Elektrotepelná technika, SNTL 1985.
Morávek, K.: Moderní vytápění bytů a rodinných domků, SNTL Praha, 1989.