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General information

Subject type: Mandatory

Coordinator: Joan Triadó Aymerich

Trimester: First term

Credits: 6

Teaching staff: 

Klara Vékony Jarecsny

Academic year: 2025

Teaching course: 3

Languages ​​of instruction

  • Catalan
  • Spanish
  • English

The language of the course is English. The course notes are written and lectures will be given in English, but all assignments, reports, exams, etc. can be submitted in any of the three languages ​​(Catalan, Spanish or English).

Competencies / Learning Outcomes

Specific skills

  • K19. Describe the elements for modeling and simulating systems.

  • S20. Apply the basic principles of thermal engineering in solving problems with thermal equipment and installations.

  • C10. Develop one's own ideas in an appropriate and well-argued manner, both in writing and orally in front of an audience, and understand and express opinions in an argumentative manner in front of a text or audiovisual content.

  • C13. Develop, in a comprehensive manner, machines, structures and industrial constructions.

  • C28. Develop and present work and other activities, incorporating the gender perspective as a variable to be taken into account in the analysis of this reality and in decision-making.

Presentation of the subject

The subject is one of the two subjects of the subject of Thermal Engineering and Fluids of third course. This area aims to present advanced applied knowledge and advanced design methods to solve various real problems of these two subjects. The subject of Thermal Engineering uses in an important way the most theoretical and basic knowledge of the subject of Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics, but also presents more advanced knowledge, applicable to real situations when thermal energy or temperature variation they play an important role. In addition to advanced knowledge, the subject presents design methods, sizing, selection process and methods for locating problems in real situations.

 

 

Contents

1. Thermodynamics and heat transmission

  • Summary of thermodynamics
  • Introduction to thermal engineering
  • Heat transfer by conduction, convection and radiation,

2. Heat exchangers

  • Typology and operation of heat exchangers
  • Heat exchanger design methods

3. Numerical simulation of heat transfer and heat exchangers

4. Thermal machines

  • Classification and definition of thermal machines
  • Thermodynamic cycles applied to thermal machines
  • Gas turbine
  • Steam turbine
  • Internal combustion engines, Stirling engine

5. Application of thermal energy

  • Thermal power plants
  • Nuclear power plant
  • Other types of application of thermal energy

Activities and evaluation system

The evaluative weight of the different concepts that take part in the qualification of the asignatura are:

- E1: Examination of the first part (30%)

- E2: Examination of the second part (30%)

- Project and internship reports and work done during classes (40%)

Each student must obtain a minimum of 40% of the maximum mark of the exam and a minimum of 40% of all reports and practice tests:

  • If E1 <4 and / or E2 <4: Final note = Minimum (E1, E2, PR)
  • If PR <4: Final note = 0,3 x E1 + 0,3 x E2
  • If E1> 4, E2> 4 and PR> 4: Final note = 0,3 x E1 + 0,3 x E2 + 0,4 x PR

Attendance at classes and practices is mandatory.

Recovery

Internships are not recoverable.

At the end of the semester, a resit exam is offered as long as the School Studies Department indicates so. The recovery will take place on the date and place set by the School Studies Department. During the resit exam the maximum grade that can be obtained is a 5 and it is calculated with the following formula where ER is the grade of the resit exam. The maximum grade will in any case be a 5:

  • If PR <4: Final note = Minimum (ER, [0,6 x ER + 0,4 x PR])
  • If ER> 4 and PR> 4: Final note = Maximum(ER, [0,6 x ER + 0,4 x PR]

Important:

Any form of academic fraud will be sanctioned in accordance with the regulations
evaluation of the center. In the event that signs of fraud are detected, including the improper use
of generative artificial intelligence tools, the subject's teachers will be able to
call the student for an individual interview with the aim of verifying
the authorship.

 

 

Bibliography

Basic

Caludio Mataix, Thermal Turbomachines, Third Edition

Marta Munoz, Thermal machines

YA Çengel. Heat transfer. McGraw Hill, 2004.

http://cfd.direct/openfoam/user-guide/

Complementary

Ferziger, Computational methods for fluid dynamics, 3rd edition

Kuppan Thulukkanam, Heat exchanger design handbook

Stirling egnine design manual, NASA

T. Sánchez Lencero, A. Muñoz Blanco - Thermal Turbomachines

http://www.salome-platform.org/user-section/documentation/current-release

https://www.paraview.org/paraview-downloads/download.php?submit=Download&version=v5.3&type=data&os=all&downloadFile=ParaViewGuide-5.3.0.pdf