| Educational guide School of Chemical Engineering |
english |
| Bachelor's Degree in Food Bioprocess Technology (2018) |
 Subjects |
| THERMAL ENGINEERING |
| Contents |
| IDENTIFYING DATA | 2023_24 |
| Subject | THERMAL ENGINEERING | Code | 20244119 | |||||
| Study programme |
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Cycle | 1st | |||||
| Descriptors | Credits | Type | Year | Period | ||||
| 6 | Compulsory | Second | 1Q |
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| Competences | Learning outcomes | Contents |
| Planning | Methodologies | Personalized attention |
| Assessment | Sources of information | Recommendations |
| Topic | Sub-topic |
| 1. Introduction | - Heat transmission mechanisms. - Fundamental concepts and basic modes of heat transmission. - Electrical analogy. Series and parallel heat transfer mechanisms. |
| 2. One-dimensional conduction in a stationary regime without heat generation | - General driving equation. - Flat cylindrical and spherical geometry. - Heat transfer through fins. |
| 3. Convection | - Fundamental concepts in heat transfer by convection. - Dimensionless numbers for the calculation of convection coefficients. - Heat transfer by forced convection in external flow. - Heat transfer by convection in the internal flow in pipes and ducts. - Natural convection. - Heat transfer in boiling and condensation. |
| 4. Heat exchangers | - Types of heat exchangers. - Selection criteria. Selection between possible options. - Global heat transfer coefficient. - Average logarithmic temperature difference. - NTU method for the design and analysis of a heat exchanger. - Kern method for the calculation of shell and tube exchangers without phase change. |
| 5. Industrial cooling | - Thermodynamics and physical principles of refrigeration. - Refrigerant fluids, nomenclature, properties, and environmental problems. - Cooling by mechanical vapor compression. - Psychometry - Thermal load of refrigerating chambers. |
