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Compressors, Fans and Pumps

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Course Unit Code361-0507/07
Number of ECTS Credits Allocated5 ECTS credits
Type of Course Unit *Compulsory
Level of Course Unit *Second Cycle
Year of Study *First Year
Semester when the Course Unit is deliveredSummer Semester
Mode of DeliveryFace-to-face
Language of InstructionCzech
Prerequisites and Co-Requisites Course succeeds to compulsory courses of previous semester
Name of Lecturer(s)Personal IDName
KOL10doc. Ing. Kamil Kolarčík, CSc.
SMI0020Ing. Zdeněk Šmída, Ph.D.
Summary
The subject belongs to a group of subjects which closely follows the subjects of thermomechanics, physics and hydromechanics.
Students acquire basic knowledge and awareness from the field of study the energy transformation in piston compressors, flow machines, dynamics compressors, fans and displacement and dynamics pumps. Creative thinking is further developed in complex theoretical calculations of the individual components of these energy transformation machines. An integral part of the teaching is the practical measurement of the energetic properties at measuring stands in laboratories. The aim of the subject is to form a professional profile of a graduate who will work as a designer of these energy transformation machines respectively as their operator with both technical and economic knowledge of categories and minimal disruption to the environment.
Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit
Understanding the working process of compressors and pumps.
Description of processes which characterize energy transformation in compressors and pumps.
Description of elementary energy and economic criteria of energy transformation evaluation.
Discussion of economical and environmental consequences of energy transformation.
Solution proposal of management of power engineering processes in compressors´ and pumps´ stations.
Course Contents
1. Introduction, repetition of thermomechanics and hydromechanics, a division of energy transformation machines and their use.
2. The compression of the known process? Compression isothermal, isentropic and polytropic with heat input and heat output.
3. Displacement compressors with a reciprocating movement of the piston, the ideal and the real machines.
4. Displacement compressors with the rotary movement of the piston, the shock compression and the shock expansion.
5. The regulation and control of a displacement compressors flow performance and pressure.
6. The ideal stage of radial compressors, a description, the energy transformation, the Euler's equation.
7. The actual stage of radial compressors, shapes of the rotor blades, the efficiency, the compression curve in the enthalpy-entropy diagram, the energy characteristics.
8. The ideal and the actual stage of the axial turbocompressor, the 2D bladed grid, vectors of velocities, basic parameters, angles of the stream, forces acting on a blade profile, the transformation of energy, the Euler's equation, losses, the efficiency of the transformation.
9. The axial fans (single stage in the design of stage: R+S, IS+R, the two-stages fans with the counterrotating rotors), the radial fans, the diagonal fans (Schicht's and Eck's fan).
10. The practical operation of compressor stations, the operating point, the practical measurement of energy characteristics, the humidity of the air, the pumping of the compressor and so on.
11. The regulation and control of a dynamic compressors flow performance and pressure.
12. The theory of the flow machines, the ideal and the actual flow machines, the schemes, description of their operation, the diagrams of velocity and the pressure.
13. The flow of gases and vapors through nozzles, the choice of the nozzles type, the calculation of the nozzles main dimensions, the critical values, the influence of a counterpressure.
14. Pumps - The geodetic height, the total transporting height and the manometric height, the maximum suction height of the pump. The transformation of energy, the operational measurements of the energy characteristics.
15. Parallel and serial cooperation of dynamic machines, the operating point.
Seminar on topics chosen by students
Recommended or Required Reading
Required Reading:
BLOCH, P. Heinz. A Practical Guide to Compressor Technology – Second Edition. New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, 2006, 555 p. ISBN: 978-0-471-72793-4.
BORREMANS, Marc. Pumps and Compressors. 1. Chichester, West Sussex: John Wiley And Sons, 2019, 512 s. ISBN 978-1-119-53414-3.
J. MORAN, Michael, Howard N. SHAPIRO, Daisie D. BOETTNER a Margaret B. BAILEY. Fundamentals of Engineering Thermodynamics, 9th Edition. 9th Edition. New York: John Wiley, 2018. ISBN 978-1-119-39138-8.
ŠMÍDA, Zdeněk a Kamil KOLARČÍK. DYNAMIC VANE ENERGY MACHINES FOR COMPRESSING AND TRANSPORTING COMPRESSIBLE FLUIDS - TURBO-COMPRESSORS. Ostrava: VŠB - Technical University of Ostrava, 2020.
KOLARČÍK, Kamil, Jaroslav Kaminský, Pavel KOLAT, Mojmír VRTEK, Jiří NEZHODA a Oto PUMPRLA. COMPRESSION Basics of Energy Transformation. Ostrava: VŠB - Technical University of Ostrava, 2020
KADRNOŽKA, J.: Lopatkové stroje. Akademické nakladatelství CERM, s. r. o. Brno, 2003. ISBN 80-7204-297-1.
KADRNOŽKA, J.: Tepelné turbíny a turbokompresory. Akademické nakladatelství CERM, s. r. o. Brno, 2004. ISBN 80-7204-346-3.

Recommended Reading:
LOGAN, E.Jr.: Handbook of Turbomachinery (Mechanical Engineering, No. 158) (2 ed.). New York: Marcel Dekker, 2003. ISBN 0-8247-0995-0.
KHAN, A., A.; GORLA, R.,S.R. Turbomachinery: Design and Theory. New York: Marcel Dekker, 2003. ISBN 0-8247-0980-2.
GIAMPAOLO, T. Compressor Handbook: Principles and Practice. Lilburn: The Fairmont Press, 2010, 361 p. ISBN: 0-88173-616-3
GÜLICH, J. F. Centrifugal Pumps. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2008, 923 p. ISBN: 978-3-540-73694-3.
BRENNEN, E. Christopher. Hydrodynamics of Pumps. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994, 293 p. ISBN: 0-19-856442-2.
WAHREN, Uno. Practical Introduction to Pumping Technology. Houston: Elsevier Science & Technology Books, 1997, 208 p. ISBN: 0884156869.

SÝKORA, V.: Teorie proudových strojů. Praha, ČVUT, 1991.
KALČÍK, J.: Technická termodynamika. Nakladatelství Československé akademie věd. Praha, 1963.
ŠTROFFEK, E. a kol.: Čerpacie a vzduchotechnická zariadenia. Bratislava, ALFA, 1991.
KAMINSKÝ, J., KOLARČÍK, K.: Kompresory. VŠB-TU Ostrava, 2006. Dostupný na: http://www1.vsb.cz/ke/vyuka/PS/kompresory-skripta.pdf
CHLUMSKÝ, V.: Kompresory. Praha : SNTL, 1978.
BUDLOVSKÝ, J.: Tepelné turbíny a turbokompresory. Praha : ČVUT, 1987.
KONKA, K. H.: Schraubenkompressoren. Düsseldorf : SNTL, 1988.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lectures, Seminars, Individual consultations, Tutorials, Experimental work in labs, Field trip, Teaching by an expert (lecture or tutorial)
Assesment methods and criteria
Task TitleTask TypeMaximum Number of Points
(Act. for Subtasks)
Minimum Number of Points for Task Passing
Credit and ExaminationCredit and Examination100 (100)51
        CreditCredit35 16
        ExaminationExamination65 35