The course presents operational and functional concepts on internal combustion engines for the automotive field, on aeronautical engines (air propulsion systems) and on energy conversion plants. Moreover, the main numerical and experimental techniques for analysis of machines and energy systems will be presented.
Lectures on the different items presented in the course programme and experimental activities on different test rigs, focusing on specific arguments developed within the course.
Experimental investigation on reciprocating Internal Combustion Engine (ICE): measuring equipment, test facility set-up, ICE installation on dynamometer test bench, evaluation of engine performance, fuel consumption, ICE pollutant emissions. Experimental definition of automotive turbocharger performance. Practice: measurements of the performance maps of an engine or a turbocharging system for automotive application.
Environmental impact of energy systems. Renewable energy sources: plant typologies. Distributed generation: basic aspects, plant typologies, and applications. Co-generation and tri-generation: applications of these technologies with the main energy systems. Calculation of thermodynamic balances and performance parameters for plants with the W-TEMP software: operative practice.
Turbomachines for energy and aeronautical propulsion – Types of turbomachines and application fields; performance parameters; work exchanged between machine and fluid; loss sources and correlations. Turbomachines for energy production. Turbomachines for aeronautical propulsion: propulsion system architectures (turbojet, turbofan and turboprop). Experimental techniques for turbomachinery applications. Laboratory experience: experimental investigation of the aerodynamic performance of a blade cascade, using facilities and instrumentations of the Aerodynamics and Turbomachinery Laboratory of the DIME Department.
Ricevimento: To fix office hours for topic review or for asking information please send an e-mail to mario.ferrari@unige.it.
Ricevimento: Consulting hours on demand.
MARIO LUIGI FERRARI (President)
SILVIA MARELLI (President)
FRANCESCA SATTA (President)
MASSIMO CAPOBIANCO
LOREDANA MAGISTRI
ALBERTO TRAVERSO
GIORGIO ZAMBONI
Examination: oral test.
Consulting hours on demand.
