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Offerings
MURDOCH-S2-EXT-2018-2022
MURDOCH-S2-INT-2018-2022
Requisites
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Enrolment rules
Completion of all Part I units in the majors Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering or Environmental Engineering.
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Learning outcomes
1.
Understand the relevance of the thermal and mass transport properties in engineering practises;
2.
Compute heat transfer from objects by the three modes of heat transfer from conventional and irregular objects
3.
Solve and analyse steady state thermal conduction and convection problems;
4.
Apply principles of heat transfer to solve engineering problems pertinent to finned or extended surface areas;
5.
Perform heat analysis a typical engineering design problem
6.
To carry out experimental work on heat and mass transfer devices and to prepare detailed technical reports on these experiments.
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Additional information
Unit content:Fundamentals of heat transfer, the conduction heat transfer equation in one dimension, thermal resistance of composite objects, heat balance through a wall, heat and temperature distribution along a finned surface, heat loss form irregular objects, natural and forced convection, dimensionless analysis, design of heat exchangers, Ficks law of diffusion, mass convection and simultaneous heat and mass transfer.