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Terminated in academic year 2020/2021

Energy and Thermal Engineering

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 635-0814/01
Abbreviation EaTT
Course title Energy and Thermal Engineering
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Thermal Engineering
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Zuzana Klečková, CSc.

Subject syllabus

Management of energy resources in the domestic and global scale.
Subdivision of energy sources, fuels and their properties. Combustion of fuels - the excess air coefficient, the quantity and composition of the combustion products.
The ecological consequences of fuel combustion. Control of combustion, combustion temperatures - adiabatic, theoretical, actual, Pyrometric effect. Pre-heating of fuel in the absence of air.
Valuation of fuel, dynamic price of fuel.
Heat transfer. Fourier differential equation. Conduction heat transfer in plane wall, cylindrical wall. The coefficient of heat transmission. Convective heat transfer. Free and forced convection. Convection heat transfer coefficient-criterial equation. Radiation heat transfer. Basic laws of radiation.
Physical and mechanical properties of metals. Coefficient of thermal conductivity, coefficient of thermal diffusivity, density, specific heat capacity. Thin and thick bodies. Bi criterion, internal and external thermal resistance. External heat transfer. The equation of the external heat transfer - convection and radiation component. External heat transfer coefficient. Empirical equations for determining.
Internal heat transfer - heating mode of thin and thick bodies. Determination of the heating time. Determination of heating temperature.
Recuperative and regenerative type of heat exchanger. Heat recovery. Savings of fuels. Recovery efficiency. Design of heat exchanger - a system of flow, the mean logarithmic temperature gradient, heat exchange surface, thermal efficiency, wall temperature, pressure drop, flow velocities.
Types of furnace equipment in the industry - description and functionality of equipment, major and by-products of production.
Lining materials.
Energy management, design of energy flows.
Praktice
Combustion conditions, determining of amount and composition of combustion products, analytical and graphical control of combustion, heat balance of system, types of combustion temperatures, coefficient of utilization of fuel, heat transfer, using of the Fourier differential equation, heat conduction, convection, radiation, and the resulting heat flux to charge, determining of heating time, temperature determining at the end of heating, heat exchanger design.

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