Course detail
Fluid Power
FSI-MIM Acad. year: 2025/2026 Winter semester
The course provides students with basic knowledge in the field of fluid power – hydraulic and pneumatic mechanisms which are a part of many modern machines and equipment. It contains the basic theoretical knowledge, description of the most important hydraulic elements, hydraulic drives, introduction to the design of hydraulic circuits and to maintenance and diagnostics. It describes the pneumatic elements, circuits, basic theory, as well as the application in the field of pneumatic mechanisms.
Language of instruction
Czech
Number of ECTS credits
6
Supervisor
Department
Entry knowledge
Necessary knowledge: differential and integral calculus, hydrostatics and hydrodynamics, gas mechanics, numerical mathematics, computer programming.
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
Course-unit credit is awarded on the following conditions – sufficient attendance and running knowledge of the subject-matter.
Examination requirements – course-unit credit,knowledge of the subject-matter and ability to apply it to the given examples. The exam has a written and an oral part.
Attendance at seminars is checked and an possible (limited) absence may be compensated for via by additional tasks.
Aims
The aim of the subject is to provide students with basic knowledge in the field of fluid power mechanisms. This concerns both elements of hydraulic and pneumatic systems and the whole circuits.
Students will be able to design hydraulic and pneumatic generators and motors and the other basic elements, as well as basic circuits.
The study programmes with the given course
Programme N-SUE-P: Computational Simulations for Sustainable Energy, Master's, compulsory-optional
Programme N-ETI-P: Power and Thermo-fluid Engineering, Master's
specialization FLI: Fluid Engineering, compulsory
Type of course unit
Lecture
39 hours, optionally
Syllabus
1. Fluid power mechanisms – introduction.
2. Basic theoretical knowledge.
3. Hydraulic mechanisms elements.
4. Pumps, motors.
5. Control elements of hydraulic mechanisms.
6. Hydraulic transmissions.
7. Introduction to hydraulic circuits design.
8. Operation, maintenance and diagnostics of hydraulic circuits.
9. Pneumatic mechanisms – classification and properties.
10. Basic theory of pneumatic mechanisms.
11. Elements of pneumatic mechanisms.
12. Pneumatic motors calculation.
13. Pneumatic circuits control.
Laboratory exercise
26 hours, compulsory
Syllabus
1. Pressure losses calculations.
2. Volume losses calculations.
3. Hydraulic circuit heat relations computation.
4. Laboratory tests – hydraulic stand.
5. Gear pump – design calculation.
6. Axial piston pump – design calculation.
7. Radial piston pump – design calculation.
8. Hydraulic cylinder – design calculation.
9. Gas state equation for the ideal gas.
10. Gas accumulator computation.
11. Application of the gas state equation for the ideal gas and a real gas.
12. Use of compressed air in pneumatic motors.
13. Laboratory tests – pneumatic stands.