This course is designed to give the student a basic understanding of the various mechanisms of heat transfer. The course will also provide the student with an understanding of heat exchangers and how such items of equipment are designed.

2 lectures per week

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100% Written Exam

This aims of this course are to:

■ give the student a basic understanding of the various mechanisms of heat transfer;

■ provide the student with an understanding of heat exchangers and how such items of equipment are designed.

By the end of this course students will be able to:

■ analyse various heat transfer problems;

■ determine the amount and rate of heat transfer in simple systems;

■ design simple heat exchangers;

■ solve basic heat exchanger problems;

■ calculate the required heating or cooling load to maintain an environment at a desired temperature.

Students must attend the degree examination and submit at least 75% by weight of the other components of the course's summative assessment.

Students must attend the timetabled laboratory classes.

Students should attend at least 75% of the timetabled classes of the course.

Note that these are minimum requirements: good students will achieve far higher participation/submission rates.  Any student who misses an assessment or a significant number of classes because of illness or other good cause should report this by completing a MyCampus absence report.