Course syllabus for Energy technology

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Course syllabus adopted 2022-01-28 by Head of Programme (or corresponding).

Overview

  • Swedish nameEnergiteknik
  • CodeENM161
  • Credits6 Credits
  • OwnerTKKMT
  • Education cycleFirst-cycle
  • Main field of studyEnergy and Environmental Systems and Technology
  • ThemeEnvironment 1.5 c
  • DepartmentSPACE, EARTH AND ENVIRONMENT
  • GradingTH - Pass with distinction (5), Pass with credit (4), Pass (3), Fail

Course round 1

  • Teaching language Swedish
  • Application code 53135
  • Maximum participants100
  • Block schedule
  • Open for exchange studentsNo
  • Only students with the course round in the programme overview.

Credit distribution

0122 Written and oral assignments 1.5 c
Grading: UG		 1.5 c
0222 Examination 4.5 c
Grading: TH		 4.5 c
  • 14 Jan 2023 am J
  • 05 Apr 2023 am J
  • 25 Aug 2023 am J

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Examiner

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Eligibility

General entry requirements for bachelor's level (first cycle)
Applicants enrolled in a programme at Chalmers where the course is included in the study programme are exempted from fulfilling the requirements above.

Specific entry requirements

The same as for the programme that owns the course.
Applicants enrolled in a programme at Chalmers where the course is included in the study programme are exempted from fulfilling the requirements above.

Course specific prerequisites

Courses in thermodynamics, transport phenomena in chemical engineering and introductory chemical engineering.

Aim

The aim of the course is to provide course participants with knowledge of a chemical process plant's energy system and its components, including boilers, heat exchangers, compressors and turbines. The course also discusses the interplay between industry and the surrounding energy system as well as how the latter affects industry’s possibility to contribute to sustainable development. The course includes basic methods for  sizing key  components in industrial energy systems, and knowledge from previous courses regarding e.g. cogeneration and heat transfer is applied and extended. The course also introduces basic concepts of combustion engineering. Finally, the aim of the course is to emphasize the role of the aforementioned areas in the professional role of chemical engineers, as well as preparing students for advanced courses within the energy area.

Learning outcomes (after completion of the course the student should be able to)

  • describe an industrial plant's energy system, particularly the operation of its major components, including boilers, heat exchangers, compressors and turbines.
  • perform basic design and evaluation of industrial energy systems and CHP plants fired with gaseous or solid fuels.
  • apply basic concepts and theory for heat transfer in connection with evaporation, condensation and radiation.
  • perform basic design and evaluation of heat exchangers and turbo-machinery.
  • perform basic design and evaluation of technical combustion systems and apply this to industrial processes.
  • quantify and analyse energy flows between an industrial process plant and the surrounding energy system
  • discuss sustainability aspects of relevance for industrial energy systems
  • discuss limitations and ethical issues  related to operation of energy conversion processes and fuels as well as technologies for minimizing environmental impact of industrial energy systems

Content

A process industry's energy system and its components, e.g. boilers, heat exchangers, compressors and turbines. 
Energy flows between industry and the surrounding energy system
Applied engineering thermodynamics, especially combined heat and power production. Applied heat transfer related to convection, boiling, condensation and radiation. 
Heat exchanger technology. 
Applied combustion theory.
Sustainability aspects of relevance for industrial energy systems

Organisation

Lectures
Exercise
Laboratory (compulsory, in group)
Project assignments (compulsory, in group)
Study visit (strongly recommended but non-compulsory)

Literature

Welty m.fl., Fundamentals of Momentum, Heat and Mass Transfer.

Formel- och tabellsamling - Termodynamik med Energiteknik

Kurskompendium i Energiteknik

Räkneövningshäfte ENM160

Examination including compulsory elements

Approved written examination 
Approved reports for project and laboratory assignments

The course examiner may assess individual students in other ways than what is stated above if there are special reasons for doing so, for example if a student has a decision from Chalmers on educational support due to disability.

The course syllabus contains changes

  • Changes to course rounds:
    • 2022-04-05: Block Block C+ added by lina haglund
      [Course round 1]