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Technical Thermodynamics
FAST-BJ011Acad. year: 2017/2018
The principles of thermodynamics: the development of thermodynamics, the importance of it in thermal operations in the production of building materials, the laws, the state and process variables, volume and technical work, cyclic processes, thermal diagrams, entropy and irreversibility of processes in practice.
Streaming of liquids: basic terms, energetic balance, loss in real systems.
Heat transfer: by conduction, radiation, convection, criteria of similarity.
Thermodynamics of steams: real steams and gases, thermal diagrams and application, state of steams and their changes, mixing of steam with water.
Thermodynamics of humid air: state variables, state equation, i-x diagrams and its application, changes of state, mixing of air streams, heat and mass transfer, principles of the drying process, the static of drying, balances, types of dryers, and the application of i-x diagram.
Principles of combustion: solid, liquid and gaseous fuels, components and properties, combustion static, quantity of air and of combustion products, principles of heat balances of kilns.
Energetic and ecology: energetic of building materials production, development in the world, ecological aspects of EU legislative.
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Physics of Building Materials
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2nd Laws, state and technological quantities, volume work and technical work, cyclic processes.
3rd Heat diagrams, entropy, irreversibility of processes in practice.
4th Flow of liquids, terminology, energetic balance, flow loss in real systems of building materials.
5th Heat transfer by conduction, by radiation, by flow, similarity criteria.
6th Thermodynamics of vapours, real gases and vapours, heat diagrams.
7th Diagrams application, the state of vapours and their changes, mixing of vapours and of vapour with water.
8th Thermodynamics of humid air, state variables, state equations.
9th i-x diagram and its applications, state transformations, mixing of air flows,
10th Heat transmission and mass transfer, principles of the drying process, statics of drying, balances, type of dryers.
11th Solid, liquid and gaseous fuels, components of fuels, possibilities of alternative fuels, predictions concerning the securing of primary energy sources.
12th Fundamentals of combustion, combustion statics, quantity of air and of combustion gases.
13th Principles of kilns heat balance, survey of kiln units for the production of building materials, burners. Energetic and ecology: energetic of the building materials production, development in the world, environmental aspects of EU legislation.
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