The course aims at deepening the concepts of thermodynamics concerning the description, modelling and management of facilities related to the unit operations of chemical industry.
To provide a basic knowledge of the chemical-physical principles and methods that can be used as tools to understand and investigate industrial chemical processes. Therefore, potential applications will be presented for the laws that regulate technical thermodynamics, fluid dynamics and heat transmission.
Capability to evaluate the combination of mass / energy conservation equations with the thermodynamic / kinetic constitutive equations for the design or analysis of the most important auxiliary operations in the process industry and to acquire the necessary familiarity in the use of tables and graphics for the most important substances.
Oral lessons and exercises to the blackboard.
Mass , energy and entropy balance in open non-reactive systems. Characteristics, performance and efficiency of industrial equipment. Direct and inverse cycles. Heat pumps. Elements of psychrometry. Moisturing and drying processes. Basic equations of fluid dynamics. Fluid motion in ducts. Distributed and local hydraulic losses. Conductive, convective and radiative heat transfer. Thermal resistances in series and parallel. Heat exchangers.
M. J. Moran, H. N. Shapiro, Fundamentals of Engineering Thermodynamics (Wiley, New York, 1992). G. Cornetti, Macchine termiche (Il Capitello, Torino, 1994). G. Cornetti, Macchine idrauliche (Il Capitello, Torino, 1994). F. Kreith, Principi di trasmissione del calore (Liguori, Napoli, 1974). G. Guglielmini, C. Pisoni, Elementi di trasmissione del calore (Masson, Milano, 1996).
Ricevimento: By appointment, made by phone (mob. phone: 329 2104532) or by e-mail (andrea.reverberi@unige.it)
Ricevimento: Always by appointment by e-mail (servida@unige.it)
From September 28, 2020 (following the timetable on http://www.chimica.unige.it/didattica/orari_CTC and/or https://corsi.unige.it/8757)
the exam consists of an oral discussion.
The exam aims at checking:
The assessment standards concern the ability to stay on topic, the quality of expression, the logic pattern of the reasoning and the critical reasoning skills.
