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Official AKTU syllabus of Heat Transfer (BCH303) for B.Tech 2nd Year – 3 credits, L-T-P 2-1-0. Read the unit-wise course content, course outcomes, evaluation pattern and recommended books online, or download the PDF.
Syllabus — Heat Transfer
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Course Objectives
The objective of this course is to impart a fundamental understanding of heat transfer operations and the associated processes employed within the Chemical Process Industries.
Course Outcomes
On completion of this course, the students will be able to
- Acquire fundamental knowledge of the numerous modes of heat transfer and a thorough understanding of heat conduction.
- Understand the convection phenomenon and use them to solve problems.
- Determine radiation heat transfer involving various geometries by applying the applicable laws.
- Formulating the equations pertaining to boiling and condensation phenomena, subsequently employing them to solve relevant problems.
- Design heat exchangers and evaporators and evaluate their performance.
Reference Books
| S.NO | NAME OF AUTHORS/BOOKS /PUBLISHERS | YEAR OF PUBLICATION/ REPRINT |
| 1. | Cengel Y.A. and Ghajar A.J., “Heat and Mass Transfer:Fundamentals and Applications”, 5th Ed., McGraw Hill | 2017 |
| 2. | McCabe, W.L, Smith J.C, and Harriot, P, Unit Operations in Chemical Engineering, 7th Edition, McGraw-Hill, Inc. | 2017 |
| 3. | Coulson, J.M. and Richardson, J.F, Chemical Engineering, Vol. I, 6th Edition, Elsevier India. | 2014 |
Internet based/ online resources:
- https://archive.nptel.ac.in/courses/103/105/103105140/
- https://archive.nptel.ac.in/courses/103/103/103103032/
| Units | Contents | Lecture Hours |
|---|---|---|
| I | Introduction: Importance of heat transfer in Chemical Engineering operations – and a brief description of various modes of heat transfer. Conduction: Fourier's law of heat conduction; One-dimensional steady state heat conduction equation for flat plate; Hollow cylinder and sphere, Heat conduction through a series of resistances; Critical radius of insulation; Thermal conductivity measurement; Effect of temperature on thermal conductivity; Heat transfer in extended surfaces (Fins); unsteady state heat conduction; Lumped system analysis. | 8 |
| II | Convection : Concepts of heat transfer by convection; Natural and forced convection; Analogies between the transfer of momentum and heat; Reynold’s analogy; Prandtl and Coulburn analogy. Dimensional analysis; Correlations for the calculation of heat transfer coefficients; Heat transfer coefficient for laminar and turbulent flow through a pipe. | 8 |
| III | Radiation: Absorptivity, Reflectivity, transmissivity, Concept of a black body and Gray body, Basic concepts of radiation from a surface: Planck’s Law, Wien’s Displacement Law, Stefan-Boltzmann Law, Kirchhoff’s Law, Radiation heat exchange between surfaces – the view factor. | 8 |
| IV | Boiling: Pool boiling of saturated liquid, Characteristics, nucleate pool and forced convection boiling, boiling mechanism and curve, heat transfer correlations, heat pipes. Condensation: Mechanism and types of condensation of vapour; Drop - wise and film -wise condensation; Nusselt equation for vertical and horizontal tubes; Condensation of superheated vapours. | 8 |
| V | Heat Exchangers: Parallel and counter flow heat exchangers; Log mean temperature difference; Single-pass and multi-pass heat exchangers; Double pipe; Shell and tube; Plate and frame heat exchangers; Heat exchangers effectiveness; Number of transfer unit; Fouling factors; Design of heat exchangers; Evaporator: Classification and use of evaporators in process industries, the effect of boiling point rise on evaporator performance, concept of capacity, steam economy, Single effect and multiple effect evaporation - Design calculation for single and multiple effect evaporation. | 10 |
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