Mass Transfer Coefficients
Students will be able to estimate mass transfer coefficients and use them to determine mass transfer rates for both external and internal flows and across phase boundaries.
Radiative Heat Transfer
Students will understand radiative heat transfer including blackbody radiation and Kirchoff?s law, and be able to solve radiative problems involving view factors and radiative exchange between surfaces.
Heat & Mass Transfer
Students will learn about chemical processes, units, and corresponding equipment related to heat and mass transfer
Qualitatively Conduction
Students will understand qualitatively conduction, forced and free convection, and radiation.
Transient Heat & Mass
Students will be able to solve simple transient heat and mass transfer problems with methods such as lumped capacitance, Heisler charts, 1st term approximation, exact numerical solutions, etc.
Fick's Law
Students will understand and be able to use Fick's Law.
Differential Energy Balances
Students will be able to formulate and solve differential energy balances for conduction within a single phase.
Analogies
Students will understand heat/mass transfer analogies including their limitations.
Convective Heat Transfer
Students will understand convective heat transfer and use of heat transfer coefficients for laminar and turbulent flows, internal and external flows, fully developed flow, flow with entry effects, and forced and free convection.
System Analyzation
Students will be able to analyze systems containing multiple resistances to heat transfer.
LMTD Method
Students will be able to do preliminary size calculations on shell-and-tube heat exchangers using the log-mean-temperature-difference (LMTD) method.
Engineering Problems
Students will demonstrate an ability to solve engineering problems.
Technical Material
Students will demonstrate effective reading of technical material.
Creative Thinking Skills
Students will exhibit critical and creative thinking skills for analysis and evaluation of problems and cause-effect relationships.
Effectiveness-NTU method
Students will be able to do preliminary size calculations on shell-and-tube heat exchangers using the effectiveness-NTU method.
Safety
Students will understand and have a basic knowledge of how safety considerations are incorporated into engineering problem solving.
Graphical Data
Students will demonstrate effective interpretation of graphical data.
Coupled H & M Transfer
Students will be able to solve simple problems where heat and mass transfer are coupled.
System Analyzation
Students will be able to analyze systems containing multiple resistances to heat transfer.
LMTD Method
Students will be able to do preliminary size calculations on shell-and-tube heat exchangers using the log-mean-temperature-difference (LMTD) method.
Technical Material
Students will demonstrate effective reading of technical material.
Creative Thinking Skills
Students will exhibit critical and creative thinking skills for analysis and evaluation of problems and cause-effect relationships.
Safety
Students will understand and have a basic knowledge of how safety considerations are incorporated into engineering problem solving.
Graphical Data
Students will demonstrate effective interpretation of graphical data.
Coupled H & M Transfer
Students will be able to solve simple problems where heat and mass transfer are coupled.
Environment
Students will understand and have a basic knowledge of how environmental considerations are incorporated into engineering problem solving.
Heat Exchanger Design
Students will be able to calculate and use overall heat transfer coefficients in designing heat exchangers.
Heat Exchanger Practical Considerations
Students will understand practical considerations of heat exchangers including types of heat exchangers, materials of construction, and fouling.
Solution Sophistication
Students will be able to rationalize units, make order of magnitude estimates, assess reasonableness of solutions, and select appropriate levels of solution sophistication.
Engineering Problems
Students will demonstrate an ability to solve engineering problems.
Effectiveness-NTU method
Students will be able to do preliminary size calculations on shell-and-tube heat exchangers using the effectiveness-NTU method.
