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ME 498 KN - Advanced Heat Exchangers

Last offered Spring 2025

Official Description

Subject offerings of new and developing areas of knowledge in mechanical engineering intended to augment the existing curriculum. See Class Schedule or departmental course information for topics and prerequisites. Course Information: 1 to 4 undergraduate hours. 1 to 4 graduate hours. May be repeated in the same or separate terms if topics vary to a maximum of 9 hours.

Section Description

This course offers a comprehensive exploration of heat exchanger technologies, focusing on their fundamental principles, design considerations, performance analysis, and practical applications. Emphasizing energy efficiency and decarbonization, the course equips engineers, designers, and researchers with the skills needed to optimize heat exchangers across industries like HVAC&R, waste heat recovery, and water harvesting. Starting with core concepts in heat and mass transfer, the course covers essential heat transfer modes (conduction, convection, and radiation) and their impact on heat exchanger performance. The course covers various heat exchanger types, including shell-and-tube, plate, and air-cooled designs, and more advanced configurations enabled by emerging design optimization and manufacturing processes, while gaining insight into their advantages, limitations, and applications. Performance analysis tools, including Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), will be introduced to asse

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Subject Area

  • Mechanical Science and Engineering

Course Description

Heat pumps have been considered promising technology to achieve the national electrification and decarbonization goals. Principles and applications of heat pumps in various energy conversion systems. The first part of the course is focused on a general description of the thermodynamic principles of heat pumps, emphasizing the effects of the internal and external irreversibilities on the heat pumps’ performances. Various types of heat pumps (air-source, water source and geothermal) and main components will be analyzed, also concerning their reciprocal interactions and those with the thermal environment they are in contact with. Implications of various working fluids used in both vapor compression as well the absorption heat pumps will be explored. The second part of the course dealt with various type of applications where heat pumps can be deployed. A comprehensive life cycle climate performance (LCCP) will be explored to establish the feasibility of the technology.

Credit Hours

4 hours

Schedule and Instructors

TitleSectionCRNTypeHoursTimesDaysLocationInstructor
Advanced Heat ExchangersKN60698ONL4 -    Kashif Nawaz