Università Roma Tre

Classification and characterisation of fluid machines. Principles underlying volumetric and dynamic machines. Performance of a fluid machine. Review of engineering thermodynamics. Energy conversion. Machines and plants.
Positive displacement machines (pumps and compressors): indicator diagrams, power consumption and efficiency, machine control.
Turbomachines: flow through stationary and moving ducts, Euler equation and energy equation, velocity vector triangles, degree of reaction.
Work absorbing turbomachines (pumps and compressors): characteristic curves, application of similarity laws, cavitation problems. Operation with working fluids of interest for marine applications. Machine control.
Hydraulic turbines: power and efficiency, kinds of turbines suitable for marine applications, turbines for power production from marine renewable energy sources.
Wind Turbines: available typologies, work production principle, performance curves, power control, marine applications.
Turbines for compressible flow: impulse and reaction axial stages, blade efficiency and stage efficiency. Power limits of a turbine. Off-design performance and control.
Gas Turbine based plants: thermodynamic cycle analysis, regenerative heating, state of-the-art and future trends, offshore applications. Gas-steam combined plants: thermodynamic cycle analysis, offshore applications.
Internal Combustion Engines: reference thermodynamic cycles, features and performance of SI and CI engines, state of-the-art and future trends, offshore applications.
Organic Rankine Cycle: working fluids suitable for applications, plant schemes, plant performance assessment. Machines and apparatuses, state of-the-art and future trends, offshore applications.

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