Incoming Exchange Student Courses
General Data
Academic program Incoming Exchange Student Courses :
Type d'EC Classes (LIIEXP06EHydr)
Lectures : 10h00
Tutorials : 10h00
Total duration : 40h00
Status :
Obligatoire
Period :
Semester 6_ Sustainable Energy
Education language :
English
Learning Outcomes
-To compute minor and major head losses in piping systems/hydraulic network (system head).
-To evaluate dynamic pumps performance using measured pump performance curves.
-To match a pump characteristic to a hydraulic network characteristic.
-To select an appropriate type and size of a dynamic pump for a specific application (use of specific speed).
-To predict pump performance or to adapt pump operation using similarity rules.
-To develop a fundamental and practical understanding of hydraulic power systems.
-To evaluate the performance of positive displacement pumps.
-To design a hydraulic circuit for a specific hydraulic power application.
Content
- Hydraulic networks: fundamentals of fluid flow in pipes, major and minor and head loss, system head, branches in parallel and series.
- Pumping systems: classification of pumps, operation of dynamic pumps, pump main parameters, pump performance curves, pumps combined in series and parallel, matching a pump to a piping system, cavitation and net positive-suction head, dimensionless pump performance, similarity rules, specific speed, adaptation of operating conditions.
- Hydraulic power systems: Fundamentals of Hydraulic Power Transmission, hydraulic power generation, positive displacement pumps (design and performance), hydraulic power distribution (hydraulic valves: types, design and function), hydraulic power deployment (hydraulic cylinders, hydraulic motors, hydrostatic transmission), hydraulic circuits.
Pre-requisites / co-requisites
Fluid Mechanics
Bibliography
- Cengel, Y., & Cimbala, J. M. (2014), Fluid mechanics: Fundamentals and applications, 3th ed., McGraw-Hill Education.
- White F. (2016), Fluid Mechanics, 8th ed, McGraw- Hill.
- Zhang Q. (2018), Basics of Hydraulic Systems, 2nd ed., CRC Press.
- Esposito A. (2014), Fluid Power with Applications, 7th ed., Pearson Education Limited.