2025 (Current Year) Faculty Courses School of Materials and Chemical Technology Department of Chemical Science and Engineering Graduate major in Chemical Science and Engineering

Advanced Energy Transfer Operation

Academic unit or major: Graduate major in Chemical Science and Engineering
Instructor(s): Hidetoshi Sekiguchi
Class Format: Lecture (Face-to-face)
Media-enhanced courses: -
Day of week/Period (Classrooms): 3-4 Mon / 1-2 Thu
Class: -
Course Code: CAP.C421
Number of credits: 200
Course offered: 2025
Offered quarter: 2Q
Syllabus updated: Apr 2, 2025
Language: English

Syllabus

Course overview and goals

[Summary of Lecture] The course focuses on the evaluation methods and improvement of energy processes and operations. Based on the fundamentals of heat transfer, students learn how to evaluate the efficiency of various energy processes and to improve heat transfer rate. The course also deals with energy processes in which chemical reactions and phase changes takes place.
[Aim of Lecture] This lecture aims for students to have an ability to evaluate the efficiency of various energy processes and how to utilize energy effectively and to improve heat transfer rate by the analyses based on thermodynamics and heat transfer mechanisms.

Course description and aims

[Target of Lecture] Target of this lecture is to understand methodology to utilize energy effectively and to improve heat transfer rate by the analyses based on thermodynamics and heat transfer mechanisms which are required for energy operations in chemical engineering.

Keywords

energy processes, evaluation and improvement of efficiency, energy transformation

Competencies

Specialist skills
Intercultural skills
Communication skills
Critical thinking skills
Practical and/or problem-solving skills

Class flow

The first part of the lecture is the explanation of topic scheduled. Towards the end of class, students tackle exercise problems related to the topic taught on that day. Before coming to class, students should read the course schedule and check what topics will be covered. Required learning should be completed outside of the classroom for preparation and review purposes.

Course schedule/Objectives

	Course schedule	Objectives
Class 1	Introduction & Basics of heat transfer	To be able to understand the basics of heat transfer phenomena.
Class 2	Energy equations and Basics of Heat Conduction	To be able to understand energy equations as well as heat conduction.
Class 3	Optimization of heat transfer (heat conduction) (1)	To be able to analyze heat conduction using energy equations and to design heat conduction system to optimize heat transfer rate.
Class 4	Optimization of heat transfer (heat conduction)(2) 　Fin & Boundary Conditions	To be able to design fins heat conduction to optimize heat transfer rate.
Class 5	Unsteady state heat conduction	To be able to understand unsteady state heat conduction.
Class 6	Convective heat transfer analyzed with energy equations	To be able to analyze convection using energy equations.
Class 7	heat transfer in boundary layer flow	To be able to understand Forced convection heat transfer in boundary layer flow.
Class 8	heat transfer in pipe	To be able to estimate heat transfer rate at flow in pipe.
Class 9	Optimization of heat transfer (convection)	To be able to understand heat transfer by conduction and convection, and to estimate heat transfer rate.
Class 10	Basics of Radiation heat transfer	To be able to understand basics of radiation heat transfer.
Class 11	Radiation heat transfer between gray bodies	To be able to estimate heat transfer rate between gray bodies.
Class 12	Exergy	To be able to understand the concept of exergy.
Class 13	Evaluation of energy transformation processes	To be able to evaluate energy transformation processes.
Class 14	Summary & Answers for exercise	To understand methodology to utilize energy effectively and to improve heat transfer rate.

Study advice (preparation and review)

To enhance effective learning, students are encouraged to spend approximately 100 minutes preparing for class and another 100 minutes reviewing class content afterwards (including assignments) for each class.
They should do so by referring to textbooks and other course material.

Textbook(s)

None required. Materials are distributed by T2SCHOLA.

Reference books, course materials, etc.

Siro Yoshikawa, “Basics of transfer phenomena (In Japanese)”, Kagakudojin, ISBN-13: 978-4759815917, Textbooks entitled such as chemical engineering and heat transfer. Also materials are distributed accordingly.

Evaluation methods and criteria

Students will be assessed on their understanding of the methodology to utilize energy effectively and to improve heat transfer rate, based on their scores of report and exercises.

Related courses

CAP.C441 ： Transport Phenomena and Operation

Prerequisites

No prerequisites are necessary, however enrollment in the related courses is desirable.