Academic Year/course:
2023/24
532 - Master's in Industrial Engineering
60818 - Thermic engineering
Syllabus Information
Academic year:
2023/24
Subject:
60818 - Thermic engineering
Faculty / School:
110 - Escuela de Ingeniería y Arquitectura
Degree:
532 - Master's in Industrial Engineering
ECTS:
6.0
Year:
1
Semester:
First semester
Subject type:
Optional
Module:
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1. General information
The objective of the subject is to complete the common training in the following areas of the industrial branch:
Heat transfer: conduction, convection, heat exchangers and thermal radiation.
Heat production: material and energy balances in combustion.
These approaches and objectives are aligned with some of the Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs, of the 2030 Agenda(https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/es/) and certain specific targets, so that the acquisition of the learning results of the subject provides training and competence to the student to contribute to some extent to their achievement:
Goal 7: Ensure Access to Affordable, Secure, Sustainable and Modern Energy for All.
7.1 By 2030, ensure universal access to affordable, reliable and modern energy services
7.2 By 2030, significantly increase the proportion of renewable energy in all energy sources
7.3 By 2030, double the global rate of energy efficiency improvement
Goal 9. Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
9.4- From now until 2030, modernize infrastructure and reconvert industries to make them sustainable, using resources more efficiently and promoting the adoption of clean and environmentally rational industrial technologies and processes, and ensuring that all countries take measures according to their respective capacities.
Goal 13. Climate Action
13.3 Improve education, awareness and human and institutional capacity regarding climate change mitigation, adaptation to it, reduction of its effects and early warning.
2. Learning results
Specific competencies
Applied knowledge of Thermal Engineering (CE1).
General competencies
- To have adequate knowledge of the scientific and technological aspects of energy engineering (CG1).
- To project, calculate and design products, facilities and power plants (CG2).
- To apply the knowledge acquired and solve problems in new or little known environments within broader and multidisciplinary contexts (CG8).
- To know how to communicate conclusions to specialized and non-specialized audiences in a clear and unambiguous way (CG10).
- To possess learning skills that allow for self-directed or autonomous study (CG11).
Upon completion of this subject, the student will be able to:
Solve heat transfer problems involving conduction, forced and natural convection, and radiation.
Perform the thermal sizing of heat exchangers.
Calculate mass and energy balance in the combustion of solids, liquids, and gases as well as the performance of combustion equipment.
3. Syllabus
- Introduction to heat transfer.
- Heat conduction equation.
- Stationary 1D thermal resistances and circuits
- Expansion of stationary conduction.
- Cooling fins.
- Transient conduction.
- Notions of heat convection
- Forced convection.
- Natural convection
- Heat exchangers.
- Thermal radiation.
Practical syllabus
- Material and energy balances in combustion: biomass boiler
- Material and energy balances in combustion: natural gas condensing boiler
- Parametric studies in heat transfer problems
- Design and analysis of heat exchangers
- Thermal radiation: environmental radiation and gray surface cavities
4. Academic activities
- There will be 3 hours of theory master classes and problem-solving classes every week.
- Each student will carry out 5 practices , until completing a total of 15 hours of practical activities. These practices will be scheduled by the School so that there is a practice every two weeks.
- At the beginning of the academic year, the schedule for practices and continuous assessment tests (theory and practices) will be announced.
- The dates of the official exams and tests will be set by the school ( https://eina.unizar.es/ section "Exams and calls").
- The time each person should dedicate to personal study is estimated at 84 hours per year (in addition to class attendance, exams, and assessment tests).
5. Assessment system
Continuous assessment
Students who wish to do so can opt for continuous assessment, which will consist of:
- Two theoretical-practical exams (one in November and another on the dates reserved for continuous assessment at the end of the teaching period), which will eliminate subject matter. The partial theoretical-practical exams will follow the same format as the global theoretical-practical one. These theoretical-practical exams will make up 80% of the final grade, if passed. The first will be worth 52% and the second 28%, in proportion to the part of the syllabus included in each one.
- Evaluation of the continuous assessment practical tests, which will represent 20% of the grade for that call.
Students who have chosen continuous assessment and have failed any of the theoretical-practical exams will have a second chance in the global test of the February call. In order to pass the subject by the continuous assessment method, it is necessary that the weighted average of the theoretical-practical exams is higher than 4.0.
In the face-to-face tests, students will be allowed to use the computer for problem solving, as well as their printed and annotated class presentations, other documents such as property tables and forms that will be distributed through the ADD (Anillo Digital Docente) and handwritten solved problems. Students are not allowed to bring photocopied or printed solved problems or those from other people.
Global assessment.
It will be carried out through a theoretical-practical exam that will consist of three parts:
- Objective test on basic concepts of the subject that may include simple calculations. (25% of the theoretical practical exam).
- Problem exam including two or three exercises. (60% of the theoretical-practical exam).
- Practical exam including exercises similar to those of the continuous assessment practical tests (15%).
The passing grade for the global assessment is 5.0, resulting from the weighted average of the three parts. There is no minimum grade to average.
According to Article 10 of the "Regulation of learning evaluation standards" of the University of Zaragoza, "The second evaluation call, to which all students who have not passed the subject are entitled, will be carried out through a global test in the period established for this purpose by the Government Council in the academic calendar.". Therefore, continuous assessment grades are not saved for the second call.
Assessment criteria and levels of demand
In all the evaluation activities, the following aspects and qualities will be assessed to the degree indicated in each case:
- Correct reasoned approach to the solving process of the issues and problems posed.
- Correction of the numerical result obtained in each of the sections
- Correction and clarity in written communication: correct spelling, clear handwriting, correct expression, coherent content structure.
- If applicable, critical analysis of the results: coherence, relationship with other aspects of the subject, possibilities for improvement, etc.