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Terminated in academic year 2022/2023

Furnaces and Energy management

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 635-2007/01
Abbreviation PaEH
Course title Furnaces and Energy management
Credits 6
Coordinating department Department of Thermal Engineering
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Zuzana Klečková, CSc.

Subject syllabus

1. Energy outlook in the world, EU and in our country. Energy sources, fuels and their properties.
2. Fuels combustion, waste gases amount and composition, combustion air consumption, excess-air coefficient.
3. Combustion control, analytical methods, derivation of relationship for determination of excess air coefficient. Graphical methods combustion control, practical measurements.
4. Combustion temperatures, types of combustion temperatures. Methods of determination. Using the values obtained. Pyrometric effect.
5. Heating of fuel in the absence of air. Relevance and practical application. Technological evaluation of fuels. The influence of the combustion process to the energy use of fuels.
6. Heat transfer in the furnaces working enclosure. Combined heat transfer from the combustion products to charge.
7. Establishment of external and internal heat transfer areas.
Derivation of external heat transfer equation. 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.
8. Internal heat transfer. External and internal thermal resistance. Determination of Bi criterion. Thin and thick bodies.
9. Heating of thin bodies. Modes of heating thin bodies in practice.
10. Heating of thick bodies. Fourier differential equation of unsteady heat transfer. Its use for various types of heating of thick bodies in practice.
11. Subdivision of industrial furnaces and characteristics of individual types. Division factors. Thermal characteristics.
12. Heat exchangers. Types of the heat Exchange. Thermal and hydraulic calculation. Recuperator, regenerator. Flow in the exchanger. Determination of heat transfer surface. Average logarithmic temperature gradient. The heat transmission coefficient. Determination of heat transfer surface. Thermal efficiency, temperature of the wall.
13. Heat recovery and its impact on fuel economy and combustion temperature value and operational economy of furnace equipment.
14. Power and heat balance. Individual items and their determination. Building of specific heat balance equation of thermal equipment.

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
4. SIENIUTYCZ, S., JEŻOWSKI, J. Energy Optimization in Process Systems. Elsevier. 2009.768 p. ISBN: 978-0-08-045141-1 
5. IEA - International Energy outlook, 2010

Advised literature

Current literature will be communicated in introductory lecture.