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Terminated in academic year 2020/2021

Energy management

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 635-0419/01
Abbreviation EH
Course title Energy management
Credits 6
Coordinating department Department of Thermal Engineering
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Zuzana Klečková, CSc.

Subject syllabus

Energy situation in the world and in our country, energy sources, fuels and their properties.
Fuels combustion, waste gases amount and composition, combustion air consumption, excess-air coefficient
Combustion control, analytical and graphical methods, practical measurements.
Combustion temperatures, types of combustion temperatures. Methods of determination. Using the values obtained.
Pyrometric effect.
Heating of fuel in the absence of air.
Heat transfer in the furnaces working enclosure.
External and internal heat transfer.
External heat transfer equations. Development of thermal balance. Determination of the convection component. Determination of radiation component. External heat transfer coefficient. Formulas for the external heat transfer coefficient calculation.
Internal heat transfer. Heating of thin and thick bodies .
External and internal thermal resistance. Determination of Bi criterion. Thin and thick bodies.
Subdivision of industrial furnaces and characteristics of each type. Division factors . Thermal characteristics.
Heat exchangers, thermal and hydraulic calculation. Recuperator, regenerator. Types of flow in the exchanger. Determination of heat transfer surface. Average logarithmic temperature gradient. The heat transfer coefficient. Thermal efficiency, temperature of the wall.
Secondary energy sources. Individual species. Possibilities of use.
Power and heat balance. Individual items and their determination.

Practice
Gross and low calorific value. Combustion conditions, determination of the amount and composition of combustion products. Analytical and graphical control of combustion. Heat balance of the system. Types of combustion temperatures, the adiabatic, theoretical, and actual combustion temperature calculation. Dynamic price of fuel. The resulting heat flux to charge, determining of the heating time, determining temperature at the end of heating, heat exchanger design, calculation of heat transfer surface of the heat exchanger.

E-learning

http//www.fmmi.vsb.cz/635
Will be continuously completed.

Literature

1. KUPPAN, T. Heat Exchanger Design Handbook. Marcel Dekker, Inc. New York - Basel, 2000. ISBN 0-8247-9787- 6
2. TRINKS, W. et al. Industrial furnases. Wiley-Interscience. New York, 2003. ISBN-10: 0471387061 
3. KAZANTSEV, E. I. Industrial Furnaces . Mir Publisher, Moscow, 1977. ASIN: B0000EGEXJ

Advised literature

Current literature will be communicated in introductory lecture.