Course Summary
This course is a final year elective course building on earlier core thermo-fluid courses. Within this course there are extended topics to the heat transfer knowledge attained from the previous studies. The topics will have applications with HVAC, refrigeration and air conditioning, and other industrial heating and cooling applications.
- Revision of basic modes of heat transfer; vapour compression refrigeration cycle,
- The role of heat exchangers in a thermodynamic cycle and associated environmental and economic issues;
- Boiling and Condensation;
- Fouling of heat exchangers; Overall heat transfer co-efficient; Log mean temperature difference; Parallel flow, counter flow and cross flow configurations of heat exchangers; Heat exchanger effectiveness and number of transfer units (NTU); Pressure drop and flow considerations;
- Further conduction problems: Fins, Insulation, Transient, Numerical computations
- Wetted surface heat and mass transfer including evaporative cooling and cooling towers;
If you are enrolled in this course as a component of your Bachelor Honours Program, your overall mark will contribute to the calculation of the Weighted Average Mark (WAM).