Course Details
Course Outline
5 days course
Fluid properties and their transport characteristics
- Fluid at rest: hydrostatic pressure, buoyancy and stability.
- Fluid in motion: velocity and pressure variation
- Oil and gas flow in process piping and long distance pipelines
- Calculation of pressure losses and required flow power
- Consideration of pipe networks
- Workshop: Examples and problem solutions
Drag and lift forces on 3D bodies in turbulent flow
- Centrifugal pumps and hydro-turbines
- Centrifugal and axial compressors
- Gas and steam turbines
- Wind turbines
- Hydraulics and pneumatics applications
- Workshop: Examples and problem solutions
Flow control and measurement techniques: Custody transfer
- Advanced measurements: LDA; Ultrasound and visualization techniques
- Heat transfer mechanisms: conduction, convection and radiation
- Forced and free convection heat transfer
- Shell and tube heat exchangers and their effectiveness
- Plate heat exchangers
- Workshop: Examples and problem solutions
Radiation heat transfer characteristics
- Solar radiation applications
- Combined heat transfer processes: combustion in industrial boilers
- Phase change: boiling and condensation, melting and solidification
- Steam generators, reboilers and condensers
- Cooling towers
- Workshop: Examples and problem solutions
Thermal insulation materials and technologies
- Heat transfer in efficient buildings and HVAC
- Heat transfer augmentation techniques: examples of engineering applications
- Measurement techniques and visualization technique
- Summary and wrap up
