308801 (v.1) Thermal Engineering Processes 331

Area:	Department of Mechanical Engineering
Credits:	25.0
Contact Hours:	4.0
The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline.
Lecture:	1 x 3 Hours Weekly
Tutorial:	1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Laboratory:	2 x 2 Hours Once-only
Prerequisite(s):	308800 (v.1) Thermodynamics 236 or any previous version
Syllabus:	Second Law and corollaries, Temperature Scale and Isentropic efficiency. Steam plant cycle and plant performance improvement. Gas turbine plant cycle and plant performance improvement. Air/moisture mixtures and psychrometry. Refrigeration cycle and air-conditioning. (1-D) Heat conduction in plane wall and radial systems, thermal network. Convection and convective heat transfer coefficient. Heat loss from pipes and critical insulation. Extended surfaces and fin analysis. Heat exchanger analysis; Log Mean Temperature and effectiveness. Thermal radiation; Blackbody and Graybody behaviour. Shape factor; Radiation thermal resistance and thermal network.
To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement.
Field of Education:	030701 Mechanical Engineering
SOLT (Online) Definitions*:	Supplemental *Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type:	Grade/Mark

Availability

Year	Location	Period	Internal	Partially Online Internal	Area External	Central External	Fully Online
2008	Bentley Campus	Semester 1	Y
2008	Miri Sarawak Campus	Semester 1	Y

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External