Objectives of Programme's Learning Outcomes

• Imagine, design, implement and operate compounds/products to specific properties and chemical and biochemical processes leading to obtaining these by integrating the needs, contexts and issues (technical, economic, societal, ethical, safety and environmental).
• Identify complex problems to be solved and formulate the specifications by integrating client needs, contexts and issues (technical, economic, societal, ethical, safety and environmental).
• On the basis of modelling, design one or more projects and solutions addressing the problem raised; evaluate them in light of various parameters of the specifications.
• Mobilise a structured set of scientific knowledge and skills and specialised techniques in order to carry out missions of chemical engineering and materials science, with a focus on chemical industry processes, using their expertise and adaptability.
• Master and appropriately mobilise knowledge, models, methods and techniques relating to material properties, chemical changes, transport phenomena and thermodynamic properties, characterisation techniques and methods of chemical and material compounds, environmentally friendly production processes, and their optimisation and simulation.
• Analyse and model a process or way of producing a compound by critically selecting theories and methodological approaches (modelling, calculations), and taking into account multidisciplinary aspects.
• Adopt a professional and responsible approach, showing an open and critical mind in an independent professional development process.
• Show an open and critical mind by bringing to light technical and non-technical issues of analysed problems and proposed solutions.

Learning Outcomes of UE

Use of thermodynamic properties calculation procedures (pure compounds and mixtures). Design and calculate vapor compression refrigeration machines and heat pumps. Calculate the energy performances of sorption refrigeration machines and heat pumps. Analyse complex energy processes. Be familiar with refrigerant nomenclature. Describe the role of the technical components of a refrigeration machine. Understand the working principle of main heat and cold storage technologies.

UE Content: description and pedagogical relevance

Analysis of complex energy production systems. Develop simulation tools for refrigeration machines and heat pumps performance calculations. Sorption machines: fundamental concepts. Introduction to heat pumping technologies for space heating. Introduction to heat and cold storage technologies.

Prior Experience

Thermodynamics, Fluid mechanics, Thermal science: fundamentals