ECTS credits ECTS credits: 6
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 27 Interactive Classroom: 21 Total: 51
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: Chemistry Engineering
Areas: Chemical Engineering
Center Faculty of Biology
Call: First Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable
Highlight the importance of fluid transport and heat transmission in the operation and design of equipment used in biotechnology industrial processes.
- Understand the physical properties and variables that influence the design and calculation of units involved in fluid transport and propulsion.
- Identify the conditions for applying equations for compressible and incompressible fluid flow. Evaluate propulsion power.
- Distinguish between the different heat transmission mechanisms and understand when they are controlling.
- Apply basic equations for heat transmission.
- Calculate the area of heat exchange equipment.
- Understand the importance of using water vapor as an auxiliary in industry.
Syllabus:
1. Thermophysical properties of interest in fluid transport and heat transfer. Dimensionless moduli. (Lec: 3, Sem: 1)
2. Types of fluids and flows. Property conservation equations. Mechanical energy balance. (Lec: 4, Sem: 2)
3. Equipment for the propulsion of incompressible and compressible fluids. Power calculation. Flow measurement devices. (Lec: 5, Sem: 2, Lab: 7)
4. Heat transfer mechanisms. Steady-state conduction and convection. Insulation. (Lec: 5, Sem: 2)
5. Heat transfer equipment: Heat exchangers. Basic design. (Lec: 5, Sem: 2, Lab: 8)
6. Water vapor as a heating agent. (Lec: 2, Sem: 1)
These topics will be explained through 24 hours of lecture sessions, 9 hours of interactive seminar sessions focused on solving fluid transport and heat transmission problems, and 15 hours of interactive laboratory sessions where students will conduct practical experiments in fluid transport and heat transmission units:
1) Fluid Transport Practices: Testing of liquid valves; Study of centrifugal pumps; Study of a pump and its components.
2) Heat Transmission Practices: Thermal insulation; Study of a heat exchanger (I): Double tube and flat plates; Study of a heat exchanger (II): Double tube, shell and tube, flat plates.
Small group tutorials (2 hours) will be related to the laboratory practices, taking place before and after the practical sessions. Thus, the first will present laboratory safety regulations and standards for preparing laboratory reports and data processing in spreadsheets. The second will focus on interpreting, relating, and analyzing experimental data from laboratory practices from a theoretical perspective.
Basic Bibliography:
Calleja Pardo, G., ed. 2016. Nueva Introducción a la Ingeniería Química. Madrid: Síntesis.
Accesible in: https://prelo.usc.es/Record/Xebook1-9219
Complementary Bibliography
Costa López, J. et al. 2002. Curso de ingeniería química: introducción a los procesos, operaciones unitarias y fenómenos de transporte. Barcelona: Reverté.
Díaz M. 2012. Ingeniería de bioprocesos. Madrid: Paraninfo.
Incropera, F.P. et al. 2007. Introduction to Heat Transfer. Hoboken: Wiley.
Mott, R.L., Untener, J.A. 2015. Mecánica de fluidos. 7th ed. México: Pearson.
Accesible in: https://bookshelf.vitalsource.com/#/search?q=9786073232883&context_toke…
Knowledge/Content: Con01, Con03
Skills/Abilities: H/D01, H/D04, H/D05, H/D07, H/D10, H/D12, H/D14
Competencies: Comp03, Comp04, Comp05, Comp06
Different teaching methodologies will be used for the teaching-learning process:
Lectures where the professor presents and explains, using slides, the basic and applied concepts underlying the course content. The theoretical content will be applied practically in problem-solving, with a combined use of a whiteboard and spreadsheet, explaining in detail the preliminary considerations and methodology used, as well as the analysis of the solution.
In seminars, with smaller groups and assuming that the student has previously worked independently on problems posed in handouts, the professor will ask about the difficulties encountered in the problems posed, thus encouraging student participation. He will address any questions that may have arisen and, if necessary, resolve the problem.
In laboratory practices, students will be provided with a basic operating manual for each practice that covers the most relevant aspects of safety and risk prevention, as well as a teaching guide for the practice. These sessions, as indicated below, are mandatory for students.
Small group tutorials will emphasize the importance of safety and good laboratory practices, as well as the application of theoretical concepts to real-life cases.
The virtual campus (Moodle) will be used as the primary communication tool with students, providing them with information on the course schedule and assessment tests throughout the course, and providing them with study support materials.
For the practical sessions, the equipment available in the ETSE Fluids and Heat Laboratory will be used.
Learning will be continuously monitored through the completion of various activities, assignments, or problem-solving. The final grade will be based on these tests, as detailed below:
Two short control tests, each worth 15% of the final grade.
Knowledge/Content: Con01, Con03; Skills/Abilities: H/D01; Competencies: Comp03, Comp05
The laboratory practice report, along with the assessment of laboratory activities, will be worth 20% of the final grade.
Knowledge/Content: Con01, Con03; Skills/Abilities: H/D01, H/D04, H/D05, H/D07, H/D10, H/D12; Competencies: Comp03, Comp04, Comp05, Comp06
Group tutorials count 10% of the final grade.
Knowledge/Content: Con01, Con03; Skills/Abilities: H/D01, H/D05, H/D14; Competencies: Comp03, Comp04, Comp05
Final exam, with theoretical questions and problem-solving, will count 55% of the final grade.
Knowledge/Content: Con01, Con03; Skills/Abilities: H/D01, H/D10, H/D14; Competencies: Comp03, Comp04, Comp05
Laboratory exercises and the final exam are considered mandatory activities. Students who fail to complete any of these activities will be considered as FAILED.
Before the final exam, students will be notified of their grade in the continuous assessment. A minimum grade of 3 out of 10 on the final exam is required to qualify for continuous assessment, and the grade will be carried over for the second attempt.
For repeat students, if the grades for laboratory exercises and/or group tutoring are acceptable, they will be carried over for the current course, provided the student does not indicate otherwise during the first week of class.
In cases of fraudulent completion of exercises and tests, the provisions of the "Normativa para a avaliación do rendemento académico do alumnado e a revisión de cualificacións" will apply.
A total of 150 hours (6 ECTS credits) is estimated, with the hours allocated for each activity indicated in the following table:
TRAINING ACTIVITY In-Person (h), (Individual Work (h)), the latter in parentheses.
Expository Classes 24, (32)
Interactive Seminar Classes 9, (27)
Interactive Laboratory Classes 15, (14)
Group Tutorials 2, (4)
Exam and Review 3, (20)
Total 53 (97) = 150 h
It is important to follow the subject day by day, as the topics are closely related, and failure to do so runs the risk of quickly losing the thread.
Problems should be solved in person to acquire skill and speed.
To use individual tutorials to resolve any doubts.
The course will be taught in Spanish/Galician.
Admission and continued participation in the practical laboratory requires that students familiarize themselves with and comply with the regulations included in the Basic Safety Training Protocol for Experimental Spaces of the School of Engineering, available in the security section of its website (https://www.usc.gal/es/centro/escuela-tecnica-superior-ingenieria). You can access it as follows:
1. Access the intranet. // 2. Go Comisións/Seguridade e saúde. // 3. Click on forms and view the " Protocolo básico de formación en seguridade para espazos experimentais".
Additional information on issues related to the teaching and research organization of the Department of Chemical Engineering is available on the following website: https://www.usc.gal/gl/departamento/enxenaria-quimica
Ramon Felipe Moreira Martinez
Coordinador/a- Department
- Chemistry Engineering
- Area
- Chemical Engineering
- Phone
- 881816759
- ramon.moreira [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Professor
Jorge Sineiro Torres
- Department
- Chemistry Engineering
- Area
- Chemical Engineering
- Phone
- 881816803
- jorge.sineiro [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
Hector Rodriguez Martinez
- Department
- Chemistry Engineering
- Area
- Chemical Engineering
- Phone
- 881816804
- hector.rodriguez [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
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