PROGRAM:
Heat exchangers. Compression and expansion transformations.
Introduction and classification of machines. Energy sources, requirements and production.
Gas turbine plants - Elementary circuit and Joule cycle. Efficiency and work in ideal and limit cycles. The real cycle. Power regulation. Closed circuit plants. Thermal regeneration. Intercooling and Post-combustion. Aeronautical applications of gas turbines.
Steam engine plants - Elementary circuit and Hirn cycle. Steam generators and heat exchange equipment. Conditions at the condenser. Conditions at the steam generator. Reheating. Thermal regeneration. Types of regenerators.
Combined plants: combination of different machines in the same plant; combination of different machines; combined gas-steam plants.
Compression refrigeration machines: reverse Rankine cycle, operating diagram, working parameters, the domestic refrigerator, refrigerant fluids, heat pumps
Absorption refrigeration machines: operating principles and functional diagram, P-T-x diagrams of solutions, absorption heat pumps.
Incompressible flow turbines: Classification, similarity criteria and fields of application. Pelton turbine, Kaplan turbine, Francis turbine. Power regulation. Cavitation.
Compressible flow turbines: Classification, similarity criteria and fields of application. Impulse turbines. Reaction turbines, and variable reaction rate (blade twisting). Structure of multistage turbines. Calculation of seals in compressible flow turbines. Power regulation.

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