Course detail
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FSI-ESM Acad. year: 2025/2026 Summer semester
This course is concerned with the state-of-the-art and the application trends of piston combustion engines in transport means and handling technology. Current fuels. Characteristics of piston combustion engines, creation of fuel-air mixture in spark ignition and compression ignition engines. Two-stroke engines. Increasing engine power. Design characteristics of combustion engines relating to their operation purpose. Design of piston combustion engine parts.
Language of instruction
Czech
Number of ECTS credits
4
Supervisor
Department
Entry knowledge
The student needs to have knowledge appropriate courses of theoretical basics of bachelor study programme at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Technology, Brno
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
The credit is suspended by active participation in exercises and correctly elaborated acts. The exam checks the knowledge from lectures and exercises, consists of written and oral parts.
Seminars are obligatory, checked by a teacher. The way of compensation of missed lessons (in justified cases) is solved individually with the course guarantee person.
Aims
The aim of the course is to make students familiar with fundamental principles of combustion engines, their properties, characteristics and the engine design.
Students learn of the development and present condition of design of piston combustion engines and their parts.
The study programmes with the given course
Programme B-STR-P: Engineering, Bachelor's
specialization SSZ: Machine and Equipment Construction, compulsory
Type of course unit
Lecture
39 hours, optionally
Syllabus
1. Development of combustion engines.
2. Fuels for combustion engines.
3. Heat circles of combustion engines.
4. Creation of fuel-air mixture for petrol engines.
5. Creation of fuel-air mixture for Diesel engines.
6. Increases in power about combustion engines.
7. Fundamental design solutions of combustion engines.
8. Piston, rings, connection rod, crankshaft, bearings.
9. Crank case and block of cylinders of engine, cylinder and head of cylinder.
10. Valve timing mechanism of combustion engine.
11. Intake and exhaust marigold of combustion engines.
12. Cooling of piston combustion engines.
13. Lubrication of piston combustion engines.
Laboratory exercise
13 hours, compulsory
Syllabus
1. Testing of piston combustion engines.
2. Measurement technique.
3. External rotational speed characteristic of engine.
4. Measurement apparatus and measurement.
5. Mechanical and volume efficiecy of engines.
6. Measurement apparatus and measurement.
7. Diagnostic measuring of engines.
8. Measurement apparatus and measurement.
9. Piston, connecting rod, crank shaft.
10. Crank case, block, cylinder, head of cylinders.
11. Valve timing mechanism of two-stroke and four-stroke engines.Intake and exhaust system.
12. Cooling of engines.
13. Lubrication of engines.