Course detail

Fluid Machinery I

FSI-MS1Acad. year: 2013/2014

The course deals with hydraulic design of flow profiles of pumps and turbines, i.e. runners, spiral cases, distributors, and provides students with detailed knowledge of behaviour of water machines at operation changes, as well as with an understanding of inception of axial and radial thrust.The hydraulic conception of fluid mechinery with scheduled parameters is also discussed.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

7

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

doc. Ing. Miloslav Haluza, CSc.

Department

Energy Institute (EÚ)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Students will understand basic principles of high-quality design of fluid machinery.

Prerequisites

Students are expected to be familiar with the basic parts of hydromechanics, especially with basic principles of work of fluid machines.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

The course is taught through lectures explaining the basic principles and theory of the discipline. Teaching is suplemented by practical laboratory work.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Course-unit credit is conditional on participation in the seminars and submitting written reports of given computational processes.
The exam has a written and an oral part.

Course curriculum

Not applicable.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

The aim of the course is to make students familiar with hydraulic design of basic parts of fluid machinery (pump and turbine) and their parts (spiral case, distributor), behaviour of fluid machine at operational changing, cavitation inception, radial and axial thrust and characteristic features of fluid machinery.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

Attendance at practicals is compulsory.Absence in justified cases has to be compensated for via a special task.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Nechleba, M.:Vodní turbiny, jejich konstrukce a příslušenství, SNTL, Praha, 1962. (CS)
Bednář, J.: Malé vodní elektrárny 2 - turbíny. SNTL, Praha, 1989. (CS)
Čábelka, J.: Využitie vodnej energie I, SVTL,Bratislava,1958. (SK)
Štoll, J., Kratochvíl, S., Holata, M.:Využití vodní energie, SNTL/ALFA, Praha, 1977 (CS)
Nechleba, M.,Druckmuller, M.: Vodní turbíny I, skripta VUT Brno. Brno 10/1990. (CS)
Strýček, O.:Hydrodynamické čerpadlá,skripta SVŠT Bratislava,Bratislava, 1988. (SK)
Bláha, J., Brada, K.: Příručka čerpací techniky, ČVUT Praha,1997. (SK)
Paciga, A., Strýček, O., Gančo, M.: Čerpacia technika, SNTL/ALFA, Praha,1984. (SK)

Recommended literature

Not applicable.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme N2301-2 Master's

    branch M-FLI , 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

39 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Ing. Miloslav Haluza, CSc.

Syllabus

1. Grouping of water turbines and pumps. Basic parameters of hydraulic machines.
2. Behaviour of machines during operation changes. Diagrams of velocities.
3. The phenomenon of cavitation inside the hydraulic profile of the machines.
4. Characteristic features of hydraulic machines.
5. Basic conception of main types of water turbines. Runners of Kaplan, Francis and Pelton turbines.
6. Special case and draft tube of the reaction turbines (Francis, Kaplan).
7. Regulation apparatus of action turbines (Pelton).
8. Classification of pumps according to high-speed, the coefficient of high-speed definition, the principle of work of the impeller, connecting into hydraulic
circuit.
9. Relation to specific energy derivation, the proposition of the meridional cross-section determination of the main dimensions , the proposition of the inlet of the impeller with respect to cavitation, the cavitation depression and its measurement.
10. Blade proposition in the conformal depiction, conversion into cylindrical, so called Cartesian coordinates.
11. Behaviour of the impeller at change of revolution or at change of the diameter of the impeller, the impeller characteristics in dependece on discharge (specific
energy, cavitation depression, power requirement, efficiency and energy dissipation).
12. Spiral case hydraulic proposal of impeller pump, proposal of diffuser and return-passage vanes.
13. Axial and radial thrusts, their beginning and balancing.