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Thermal energy machines

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction English
Code 635-2031/02
Abbreviation TEZ
Course title Thermal energy machines
Credits 4
Coordinating department Department of Thermal Engineering
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Adéla Macháčková, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

• Overview of basic energy equipment
• Industrial furnaces. Separation of furnaces according to the technological purpose, according to the heat source, according to the working space. Efficiency of furnaces.
• Melting furnaces - blast furnace, cupola, converter, tandem furnace, electric arc furnace.
• Heat treatment furnaces - continuous and folding furnaces.
• Induction and electron furnaces.
• Glass furnaces.
• Chamber furnaces, tunnel, shaft, carousel, rotary.
• Furnaces linings - overview of refractory materials designed for furnaces linings.
• Fundamentals of the theory of combustion, stabilization of the burning queue, limits of ignition, activation of combustion reactions, activation energy and ignition temperature. Inhibitors and burning catalysts.
• Burners for gaseous, liquid and solid fuels, characteristics and calculations of basic types of burners, classification of flame properties, heating systems and their applications in practice.
• Industrial burners of injector, with flow mixers, whirling, radiant, pulse, regenerative, regenerative. Ignition, stabilization and pilot burners. Low-emission burners.
• Regulation of the power and combustion ratio of gas burners.
• Temperature and pressure measurements in furnaces and piping systems. Flow measurement.
• Transit pipelines, compressor stations.
• Basic equipment for the preparation of raw materials in power engineering.
• Boilers - fluid, powder, grate.

Literature

[1] TRINKS, W., at al. Industrial Furnaces. 6. vyd. Wiley-Interscience, 2003. 496 s. ISBN: 978-0471387060 .
[2] TALER, J., DUDA, P. Solving Direct and Inverse Heat Conduction Problems. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer Verlag, 2006. 889 p. ISBN 978-3-540-33470-5 .
[3] LIENHARD IV, J. H., LIENHARD V, J. H. A Heat Transfer Textbook. 4th ed. Cambridge: Phlogiston Press, 2012.
[4] TRINKS, W. et al. Industrial Furnaces. 6th ed. New York: Wiley, 2003. ISBN 0471387061 .

Advised literature

[1] GASCH, R., TWELE, J. Wind Power Plants: Fundamentals, Design, Construction and Operation. 2nd ed. Heidelberg: Springer, 2012. ISBN 978-3-642-22937-4.
[2] DESHMUKH, Y. V. Industrial Heating. Principles, Techniques, Materials, Applications, and Design. 1st ed. Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2005. ISBN 0-8493-3405-5 .
[3] MULLINGER, P., JENKINS, B. Industrial and Process Furnaces: Principles, Design and Operation.. 1st ed. Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann, 2008. ISBN 978-0-7506-8692-1 .