ECTS credits ECTS credits: 6
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 99 Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 24 Interactive Classroom: 24 Total: 150
Use languages Spanish, Galician, English
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Center Higher Technical Engineering School
Call: Second Semester
Teaching: Sin Docencia (En Extinción)
Enrolment: No Matriculable (Sólo Planes en Extinción)
The aim of the course "Laboratory of Fluid Transport and Heat Transfer" is to put into practice the knowledge acquired in the theoretical subjects "Fluid Transport" and "Heat Transfer." The intended purpose is twofold: on one hand, to reinforce and support the knowledge acquired in the theoretical subjects and, on the other, to put in contact and to study the operation of various equipment that the student can find in his/her future professional activity in the chemical industry.
The practical classes include the application of basic principles of fluid transport and heat transfer and the analysis of practical units of fluid transport and heat transfer. The knowledge needed to address these practices is developed in the theoretical subjects "Transport of fluid" and "Heat transfer" of the same course.
The practices have been classified into five groups:
GROUP 1. BASICS OF FLUID TRANSPORT
Calibration of a constriction for the measurement of fluid flow
Calibration of a constriction for the measurement of gas flow
Bernoulli's theorem demonstration
GROUP 2. FLUID FLOW
Fluids plant
Fluid flow through porous beds
Fluidized bed
Testing of valves for liquids
GROUP 3. PUMPS
Study of centrifugal pumps
Study of a pump and its components
Bernoulli (venturi effect and diaphragm). Pumps (characteristic curves and cavitation)
GROUP 4. BASICS OF HEAT TRANSFER
Thermal insulation
Heat conduction in non-steady state regime: determination of transport properties
Electrical analogy of heat conduction
Heat transfer in two phases (liquid-vapour)
GROUP 5. HEAT EXCHANGERS
Study of a heat exchanger (I): concentric tubes and plate heat exchangers
Study of a heat exchanger (II): concentric tubes, shell and tube, and plate heat exchangers
BASIC BIBLIOGRAPHY:
MOTT, R.L. y UNTENER J.A. Mecánica de fluidos. 7ª ed. México: Pearson Educación de México, S.A. de C.V., 2015 y ediciones anteriores. ISBN 978-607-32-3288-3. SINATURA ETSE: A113-3. There are eBook versions available either in Spanish or English: ISBN: 9786073232890 (Editorial Pearson)
BERGMAN, LAVINE, INCROPERA y DEWITT. Incropera’s principles of Heat and Mass Transfer, 8th Edition, Ed. Wiley, 2017 y ediciones anteriores. ISBN-13: 978-1119382911. SINATURA ETSE: A115-7
COMPLEMENTARY BIBLIOGRAPHY:
ÇENGEL, Y.A. Transferencia de calor y masa. 3ª ed. México: McGraw-Hill Interamericana Editores S.A., 2007. ISBN 978-970-10-6173-2. SINATURA ETSE: A114-12
COSTA NOVELLA, E. Ingeniería Química. Vol. 3. Flujo de fluidos. Madrid: Alhambra, 1985. ISBN 84-205-1119-6. SINATURA ETSE: A110-1
HOLMAN, J.P. Transferencia de calor. 8ª ed. (1ª en español). Madrid: McGraw-Hill, Interamericana de España, S.A.U., 1998. ISBN 84-481-2040-X. SINATURA ETSE: A114-5
INCROPERA, F.P., DEWITT, D.P., BERGMAN, T.L. y LAVINE, A.S. Introduction to heat transfer. 5ª ed. USA: John Wiley & Sons, 2007. ISBN 978-0-471-45727-5. SINATURA ETSE: A114-9
KREITH, F., BOHN, M.S. Principios de transferencia de calor. 6ª ed. Madrid: Thomson, 2002. ISBN 84-9732-061-1. SINATURA ETSE: A114-3
LEVENSPIEL, O. Flujo de fluidos e intercambio de calor. Barcelona: Reverté, S.A., 1993. ISBN 84-291-7968-2. SINATURA ETSE: A113-2
PERRY, R.H., GREEN D.N. Y MALONEY J.O. Perry manual del ingeniero químico. 7ª ed., 4ª ed. (in Spanish), Madrid: McGraw-Hill/Interamericana de España, S.A.U., 2001 y anteriores. ISBN 84-481-3008-1. SINATURA ETSE: 100-3
WHITE, F.M. Mecánica de fluidos. 6ª ed. Madrid: Mc Graw Hill/Interamericana de España, S.A.U., 2008 y anteriores. ISBN 978-84-481-6603-8. SINATURA ETSE: A113-1
WILKES, J.O. Fluid Mechanics for chemical engineers. London: Prentice Hall PTR, 1999. ISBN 0-13-739897-2. SINATURA ETSE: 113-13
Specific skills
CI.1. Knowledge of applied thermodynamics and heat transfer. Basic principles and their application to solving engineering problems.
CI.2. Knowledge of the basic principles of fluid mechanics and its application to problem solving in the field of engineering. Calculation of pipes, channels and fluid systems.
CQ.3.2 Ability to design and manage procedures of applied experimentation especially for: systems with fluid flow and heat transfer.
General skills
CG.4 Capacity to solve problems with initiative, decision making, creativity, critical thinking and to communicate and transmit knowledge, abilities and skills in the field of industrial chemical engineering.
CG.5 Knowledge to carry out measurements, calculations, assessments, appraisals, expert’s reports, studies, reports, work plans and other similar work.
Cross-disciplinary skills
CT.1 Capacity for analysis and synthesis
CT.2 Ability to organize and plan
CT.5 Ability for information management
CT.8 Teamwork
CT.13 Ability to apply knowledge in practice
Subject without in-person teaching
The detailed syllabus, basic and supplementary bibliography, and teaching materials for the final course with teaching rights (2024/2025) will be made available to students in the subject's Virtual Classroom. The only teaching methodology available in the context of a discontinued subject (without teaching rights) is individual tutorials, aimed at resolving specific theoretical, conceptual, and/or practical questions and difficulties. These tutorials require a prior appointment, and the teaching staff will determine their format (in-person or via MS-TEAMS).
It is essential for each student to have completed all laboratory exercises in one of the previous courses to pass the subject.
The assessment is based on the following elements:
1. Laboratory (grade from a previous course). Percentage of the final grade: 65%. Type: Mandatory
2. Written exam: One exam on the subject each time. Final Grade Percentage: 35% Type: Mandatory
-The course will be considered passed if the final grade, taking into account the percentage of all assessable aspects, is equal to or greater than 5 points.
-If the student does not pass the course, he or she may retake it in the second exam, in which the same criteria as for the first exam will be applied.
-In cases of fraudulent completion of exercises or tests, the provisions of the Regulations for the Evaluation of Student Academic Performance and Grade Review will apply.
-The grade will be "Not Presented" only if the student does not appear for any of the exams for the course.
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