Educational guide 2023_24 School of Chemical Engineering

Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering (2010)

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Practice 1	Heat transfer by conduction, convection and radiation • Determination of the conductivity of an insulating material. • Study of a heat transfer process by natural convection and radiation acting in parallel. • Obtaining the correlation of natural convection on a flat wall. • Determination of the emissivity of a shiny surface.
Practice 2	Heat exchangers test bench • Calculation of the heat exchanged. • Calculation of the efficiency of heat exchangers. • Calculation of the overall experimental heat transfer coefficient. • Calculation of convection coefficients based on correlations and comparison of global coefficients.
Practice 3	Plate heat exchanger • Obtaining the correlation of the friction factor as a function of the Reynolds number. • Obtaining the correlation of the Nusselt number as a function of the Reynolds and Prandtl numbers.
Practice 4	Refrigeration by mechanical vapour compression • Experimental determination of the heat exchanged in the condenser and evaporator and the work of the compressor. • Representation of the cycle in a P-h diagram. • Evaluate the influences of each of the operating parameters.
Practice 5	Single and double stage air compression • Study of the operation of piston compressors. • Calculate the typical quantities necessary to understand its operation. • Experimentally verify the optimal working conditions, being able to choose between working in one or two stages and incorporating intermediate cooling.

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