Heat Transmission and Thermotechnics
Code: 106047 ECTS Credits: 92025/2026
| Degree | Type | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Chemical Engineering | OB | 2 |
Contact
- Name:
- Adriana Artola Casacuberta
- Email:
- adriana.artola@uab.cat
Teachers
- Catalina Canovas Bermejo
Teaching groups languages
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Prerequisites
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Objectives and Contextualisation
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Competences
- Communication
- Demonstrate knowledge of the different reaction, separation and processing operations for materials, and transport and circulation of fluids involved in the industrial processes of chemical engineering.
- Develop personal work habits.
- Display knowledge of the principles of machines and mechanisms.
- Objectively compare and select different technical options for chemical processes.
- Show an understanding of the role of chemical engineering in the prevention and resolution of environmental and energy problems, in accordance with the principles of sustainable development.
- Understand and apply the basic principles on which chemical engineering is founded, and more precisely: balances of matter, energy and thermodynamic momentum, phase equilibrium and kinetic chemical equilibrium of the physical processes of matter, energy and momentum transfer, and kinetics of chemical reactions
Learning Outcomes
- Apply matter and energy balance to energy systems.
- Apply the principles of machines and mechanisms in power plants.
- Communicate efficiently, orally and in writing, knowledge, results and skills, both professionally and to non-expert audiences.
- Enumerate, describe and compare the different options for applications used in energy systems.
- Evaluate the energy consumption of systems.
- Identify and evaluate energy systems and their energetic efficiency.
- Identify the fluid circulation operations involved in the design of heat transmission systems.
- Objectively compare and select the different technical options for heat transmission systems.
- Work autonomously.
Content
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Activities and Methodology
| Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type: Directed | |||
| Practical lectures | 23 | 0.92 | 1, 2, 5, 8, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9 |
| Seminars | 7 | 0.28 | 1, 2, 5, 8, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9 |
| Theoretical lectures | 45 | 1.8 | 1, 2, 5, 8, 4, 6, 7 |
| Type: Autonomous | |||
| Homework | 25 | 1 | 1, 2, 5, 8, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9 |
| Solving practical exercises | 65 | 2.6 | 1, 2, 5, 8, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9 |
| Study | 50 | 2 | 1, 2, 5, 8, 4, 6, 7, 9 |
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Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Assessment
Continous Assessment Activities
| Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Activity A | 18,75 | 2 | 0.08 | 8, 3, 7, 9 |
| Activity B | 18,75 | 2 | 0.08 | 1, 8, 3, 4, 9 |
| Activity C | 5 | 1 | 0.04 | 8, 3, 4, 7, 9 |
| Activity D | 7,5 | 0 | 0 | 8, 3, 7, 9 |
| Activity E | 20 | 2 | 0.08 | 1, 2, 5, 3, 4, 6, 9 |
| Activity F | 17,5 | 2 | 0.08 | 1, 2, 5, 3, 4, 6, 9 |
| Activity G | 7,5 | 0 | 0 | 1, 2, 5, 3, 4, 6, 9 |
| Activity H | 5 | 1 | 0.04 | 1, 2, 5, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9 |
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Bibliography
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Software
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Groups and Languages
Please note that this information is provisional until 30 November 2025. You can check it through this link. To consult the language you will need to enter the CODE of the subject.
| Name | Group | Language | Semester | Turn |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (PAUL) Classroom practices | 211 | Catalan | second semester | morning-mixed |
| (PAUL) Classroom practices | 212 | Catalan | second semester | morning-mixed |
| (SEM) Seminars | 211 | Catalan | second semester | morning-mixed |
| (SEM) Seminars | 212 | Catalan | second semester | morning-mixed |
| (TE) Theory | 21 | Catalan | second semester | morning-mixed |