MAK 446E - Optimization of Thermal Syst.

Course Objectives

The course is designed to give fourth year engineering students the design concepts and fundamental aspects of industrial thermal system simulation and optimisation. Examination of optimum design criteria, their application and scrutiny of engineering decision.

Course Description

Fundamentals of engineering design. Economic analysis. Equation fitting. Solution of linear and nonlinear equation sets. Cost analysis. Fundamentals of design, and selection of thermal equipment and processes such as heat exchangers, evaporators, condensers, boilers, binary mixtures and turbomachinery. Mathematical modelling of thermal equipment. Simulation of thermal systems. Fundamentals of optimum system design. Optimisation methods and optimisation of thermal systems.