AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES (FURTHER INFO)

The aim of the course is to provide an adequate and critical knowledge on the main fluid machines with particular reference to those applied to naval propulsion sector, taking into account turbines, compressors and pumps, internal combustion engines with special reference to energy-related and environmental issues.

TEACHING METHODS

Lectures on the different items presented in the course programme and exercises on specific arguments developed within the course.

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

Lectures

• General remarks on fluid machines – Primary energy sources and their transformations – Power plants and relevant application areas – Energy equation and expression of work in closed and open systems - Fluid machines classification - Work exchange in volumetric machines and turbomachines - Euler’s equation  - Conversion efficiency in fluid machines - Thermodynamic cycles - Thermal power plants overall efficiency - Specific fuel consumption.
• Internal Combustion Engines (ICE) – ICE classification, engine components, nomenclature, operational parameters – Ideal and real operation of 2 and 4 stroke engines – Reference thermodynamic cycles for SI and diesel engines – Combustion processes in ICE – Indicated diagrams, indicated and brake mean effective pressure, engine power correlations –  Engine part load operation – Constant speed and constant load curves, engine performance maps – Supercharging and turbocharging – ICE pollutant emissions – Emission control systems and aftertreatment devices.
• Compressors and pumps – Positive displacement and dynamic compressors – Compressor insertion in a circuit – Characteristic curves - Positive displacement and dynamic pumps – Pumps operative problems: operating point and flow regulation, series and parallel operation, pump priming, surge and cavitation.
• Steam power plants – Steam cycles - Methods to improve the cycle performance – Steam cycle components: boiler, steam turbines, condenser, pumps, heat exchangers.
• Gas turbine power plants – General aspects, open and closed circuit plants - Gas cycles: ideal and fuel-air and real cycle - Gas turbine power plant components: compressor, combustion chamber, expander.

Practice

• Calculation of energy systems, compressors, pumps and internal combustion engines operating parameters.

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

• S. Marelli: “Macchine 1” – Notes to the course (in Italian).
• S.L.Dixon - Fluid Mechanics Thermodynamics of Turbomachinery - Pergamon Press, 2005.
• C.R. Ferguson, A.T. Kirkpatrick - Internal Combustion Engines - Wiley, 2001.

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

FRANCESCO DEVIA (President)

SILVIA MARELLI (President)

ALESSANDRO BOSIO

MASSIMO CAPOBIANCO

GUGLIELMO LOMONACO

ANNALISA MARCHITTO

MARIO MISALE

GIORGIO ZAMBONI

LESSONS

Class schedule

THERMAL AND FLUID MACHINERY

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

Examination: oral test.

Exam schedule