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A project and competition to design and build a simple heat exchanger

Freeland, Brian ORCID: 0000-0003-3705-5745, Tobin, John M. and Foley, Greg ORCID: 0000-0002-2284-4218 (2007) A project and competition to design and build a simple heat exchanger. In: International Symposium for Engineering Education, ISEE-07, 17-19 September 2007, Dublin City University.

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Abstract

To address a declining interest in process engineering, a project to design and build a compact heat exchanger was initiated in the second year of a four-year, multidisciplinary degree programme in biotechnology. The heat exchangers had a double-pipe configuration and employed plastic outer pipes and copper inner pipes of various diameters. Designs produced ranged from coiled inner pipes to various multi-pass arrangements and were assessed on the basis of heat transfer achieved per unit mean temperature difference per unit cost. The project, which also formed the basis of a competition, was very well received by students and gave them hands-on experience of engineering design and construction, as well as team work, problem solving, engineering drawing and the use of simple tools. Based on the success of this project, a similar problem based learning approach will be initiated in the third year of the same degree programme and will focus on bioethanol production.

Item Type:Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Event Type:Conference
Refereed:Yes
Subjects:Social Sciences > Education
Biological Sciences > Biotechnology
Engineering > Engineering education
DCU Faculties and Centres:DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Science and Health > School of Biotechnology
Publisher:Dublin City University
Official URL:http://www.ndlr.ie/mecheng/symp/papers/toc.php
Use License:This item is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. View License
ID Code:462
Deposited On:22 May 2008 by DORAS Administrator . Last Modified 17 Jun 2021 15:56

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