Course detail
Hydraulic Machines
FSI-FHYAcad. year: 2022/2023
The course familiarises students with basic facts relating to working principles of hydraulic machines and equipment used in all industrial fields. It deals with pumps, hydraulic motors, water turbines and fluid mechanisms (hydraulic and pneumatic elements, hydraulic transmissions and couplings).
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Basic literature
NECHLEBA,M.: Vodní turbíny , , 0 (CS)
PIVOŇKA,J. a kol.: Tekutinové mechanismy, , 0 (CS)
Recommended reading
ŠOB,F.: Hydromechanika, , 0
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2. Displacement pumps - hydrostatic (piston, gear and sliding-vane pumps).
3. Pumps based on other principles - water ejectors and injectors, hydraulic ram.
4. Air-lift pumps, screw pumps.
5. Hydrodynamic pumps.
6. Characteristic features of pumps.
7. Sorting and driving of pumps.
8. Similarity, pi-theorem.
9. Importance, function and disposal of hydropower plants.
10. Governing equations and parameters of water turbines and storage pumps.
11. Water turbine and its characteristics.
12. Basic principles of water turbine.
13. Introduction to the problems of fluid power mechanisms.
Exercise
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Pumps based on other principles (air-lift pumps, gear and sliding-vane pumps).
Designing of hydrodynamic pumps.
Designing of a Francis turbine.
Designing of a Pelton turbine.
Designing of a storage pump.
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