Heat transfer fundamentals
Heat transfer is the major topic in each industrial application. Each chemical, mechanical and industrial topic is designed and operated according to the heat transfer phenomena involved. The properties of materials, the financial outcome of processes, the safety of operations all rely on optimized heat transfer. Heat transfer together with mass transfer dominate all known processes and their understanding is of the greatest important to the engineer / scientist involved in any stage of such a process. This course covers all mechanisms of heat transfer and includes various examples, case studies and exercises.
Objectives
- To understand the mechanisms of heat transfer
- To learn all principles and equations of heat transfer
- To understand dimensionless factors
- To learn how to optimize energy consumption
- To learn how to minimize losses
- To familiarize with real life industrial cases of heat transfer
- To understand the effect of heat transfer on efficiency of a process
- To understand the effect of heat transfer on sustainability
Contents
DAY 1
- Introduction to Heat transfer
- Conduction
- Convection
- Radiation
- Friction
DAY 2
- Conduction
o Principles
o Materials
o Conductivity and heat transfer coefficient
o The role of multiple resistances
o Examples
o Heat exchange through surfaces
o Examples and exercises
o CFD simulation
DAY 3
- Convection
o Fluid - fluid interactions
o Fluid solid interactions
o Heat transfer coefficients
o Multiple resistances
o Heat Exchangers
o Heat exchangers efficiency and losses
o Types of heat exchangers
o Heat exchanger fluids
o CFD simulation
DAY 4
- Convection
o Boundary layers
o Transfer in the boundary layer
o Dimensionless numbers and their physical meaning
o Flows around objects [spheres, rods,…]
o Losses and optimization
o CFD simulation
DAY 5
- Radiation
o Mechanisms and uses
- Friction
o Static friction
o Dynamic frictions
o Thermodynamic efficiency
Who should attend?
This course is a great match for:
- Chemical engineers, electrical engineers, environmental engineers, mechanical engineers that need to understand heat transfer
- Academics and university students that need to increase their understanding of the subject