Course syllabus for Energy technology

Course syllabus adopted 2025-02-10 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 3 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 53112
  • Maximum participants110
  • 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

In programmes

Examiner

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

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

Organisation

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

Literature

Welty, Rorrer & Foster. "Fundamentals of Momentum, Heat and Mass Transfer". 7th ed, Wiley & Sons

Formel- och tabellsamling - Energiteknik ENM161

Course compendium ENM161 Energiteknik

Exercise compendium ENM161

Examination including compulsory elements

Approved written examination. 
Approved reports for compulsory task assignments including laboratory report.
The final grade for the course is the same as the grade for the written examination.

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 about disability study support.