ChE 317: Process Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer

Spring, 2005

Objective: To provide students with an understanding of process fluids mechanics and heat transfer.

Outcomes:

1) Use appropriate methods and correlations to determine heat transfer coefficients for process heat exchange.
2) Calculate mean temperature differences and area requirements for double pipe and shell-and-tube heat exchangers.
3) Calculate power requirements for pumps and compressors and use pump and compressor performance curves.
4) Solve single and multiple effect evaporator problems.
5) Calculate terminal velocities and drag forces on falling and immersed bodies.
6) Determine the pressure drop, minimum fluidization, and entrainment velocities for packed and fluidized beds.
7) Use generalized charts to solve simple problems in unsteady-state heat transfer.
8) Beginning with a limited problem description, size a heat exchange, evaporation, or fluid mover system and report the results in a memorandum.

Instructor(s): Dr. Peter Sukanek
Professor and Chair, Chemical Engineering
134 Anderson Hall
Phone: 915-7023
Fax: 915-7023
Email: cmpcs@olemiss.edu

and Dr. John H. O'Haver
Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering
14 Anderson Hall
Phone: 915-5347
Fax: 915-7023
Email: johaver@olemiss.edu

Textbook(s)

Unit Operations of Chemical Engineering, 6 th Ed., McCabe, Smith, Harriott, McGraw Hill, 2001

Homework Assignments

• Homework Assignments
• Mathcad Example
• Course Information
  

Revised Jan 5, 2004 by JHO
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