Thermofluids 3
| Code | School | Level | Credits | Semesters |
| MMME3091 | Mechanical, Materials & Manufacturing Engineering | 3 | 20 | Autumn Malaysia |
- Code
- MMME3091
- School
- Mechanical, Materials & Manufacturing Engineering
- Level
- 3
- Credits
- 20
- Semesters
- Autumn Malaysia
Summary
This module concerns: heat transfer, thermal power systems, and advanced fluid mechanics.
Heat transfer:
• Conduction heat transfer - thermal conductivity, thermal resistance networks. Analytical and numerical solutions for one- and two-dimensional steady-state conduction and for one-dimensional transient and unsteady conduction.
• Convection heat transfer - general concepts and phenomena, velocity and thermal boundary layers, Reynolds analogy, use of experimental correlations for internal and external flows, enhancement techniques for convective heat transfer.
• Radiation heat transfer - black body emission, emissivity, absorptivity, transmissivity, Kirchhoff's law, black body radiation heat transfer, view factors, grey body radiation exchange, radiation networks.
• Case studies including problems involving combined modes of heat transfer, use of resistance networks for steady and unsteady heat transfer calculations.
Thermal power systems:
This section will focus upon steam cycles and gas turbine cycles and integrated steam/gas cycles and consider plant suitable for operation with conventional fossil fuels, biomass, waste heat streams and solar thermal and nuclear heat sources. The module will consider plant for high efficiency, low carbon emission applications and will also include advanced analysis of combustion processes to include chemical equilibrium and the issues related to pollution formation. The emphasis in the module will be upon understanding how to analyse the thermal performance of power plant and undertake design calculations. The emphasis will also be upon system performance and design rather than component design.
Advanced fluid mechanics:
This section will focus upon compressible flows and turbomachinery. Compressible flow will consider external and internal fluid flow . Turbomachinery will consider the flow of gases in compressible flow situations for energy extraction or compression processes.
Target Students
Intended for 3rd and 4th year students in the School of Mechanical, Materials and Manufacturing Engineering.
Classes
- Two 2-hour lectures each week for 12 weeks
Assessment
- 100% Exam (3-hour): Written exam
Educational Aims
This module provides knowledge of the technology currently used to generate electrical power from thermal energy and emerging future trends. It provides students with the understanding of thermodynamics and the tools to analyse and improve advanced thermal power systems. The module also provides a firm applied approach to the management and calculation of heat transfer in steady and transient situations. The fluid mechanics aspect of the module links the thermodynamic and fluid mechanics aspects of thermofluids for turbomachines and sonic flows.Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this module students will be able to:
LO1 : produce approximations to the heat transfer in real situations with practical applications – AHEP4: M2; EAC: PO2.
LO2 : solve problems containing convection, conduction and radiation iteratively – AHEP4: M3; EAC: PO5.
LO3 : understand the operation of advanced thermal power plant and how the plant is configured to give high thermal efficiency and reduce carbon emissions – AHEP4: M7; EAC: PO7.
LO4 : identify sources of inefficiency (irreversibility) in advanced thermal power plant and critically apply appropriate knowledge and skills to create improved thermal performance – AHEP4: M4, M6; EAC: PO4.
LO5 : apply advanced thermodynamic and fluid mechanics methods to compressible flows and turbomachines - AHEP4: M1; EAC: PO1.
Conveners
- Dr Gianfranco Scribano