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IT999
ISE Project
12.5 credit points
No. of hours per week: t wo hours
Instruction: guided research
Assessment: a written report, the extent of which
will be determined by the nature of the project
Subject aims
To give students the opportunity to pursue in detail a topic of
interest; to give students experience in the design and
development of research; to integrate material dealt with in
the taught components of the cluster.
Subject description
Generally the project shall be undertaken on an individual
basis, and will be goal directed. The project should require
research into a specific area (eg. the use of fuzzy logic,
knowledge acquisition tools, learning in particular domains,
etc.). The project may have either a theoretical (review) or
practical (implementation) nature, but in either case will
require the gathering of information from and the reading of
relevant literature. Material gathered must be structured and
analysed with a view to forming and reporting conclusions of
relevance to the specific question posed.
Textbooks
To be advised.
~ ~ 2 4 9 Environmental Engineering
10 credit points
No. of hours per week: four hours
2 Subject description
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Part A: Mechanical engineering plant
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2 Principles and standards to be met by heating, ventilating,
$. lighting, air-conditioning, refrigeration, steam and high
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pressure hot water plant -tests on boiler plants such as the
Ringleman, 02, CO and COZ tests. Recognition and analysis of
problems, reports and recommendations, maintenance of
records.
u Part B: Vibration/acoustics
$. Theory and practice of vibration and noise control applied to
equipment and plant including ventilation systems and food
processing plant. Codes of practice for noise emission and
control.
Minimising the health risks associated with high levels of
vibration and noise.
~ ~ 6 2 1 Air-conditioning
No. of hours per week: four hours for two
semesters
Subject aims and description
Thermodynamic properties of gaseous mixtures. Psychrometric
properties of steam-air mixtures. Construction of the
psychrometric chart. Operations. Heating, cooling, humidifying,
dehumidifying, mixing. Combined operations.
Analysis of direct contact processes. Dimensional analysis
applied to convective mass transfer. Enthalpy potential.
Combined sensible and latent transfer. Cooling coils, by-pass
factor, selection of coils. Cooling towers. Performance and
selection.
Humidifying by steam and water.
Ventilation. Natural and forced. Infiltration and exfiltration.
Stack effect. Human comfort requirements. Metabolic rate,
latent and sensible heat rejection. Air movement,
temperatures, moisture content and thermal radiation
relationships for comfort.
Contaminants. Filtration and masking. Minimum fresh and
total air for various situations. AS1 668 Pt. 2.
Cooling load estimation. Introduction to computer methods
(CAMEL, TEMPER, BUNYIP, etc.). Internal heat gains. External
heat gains. Direct solar gain, fenestration, shading,
coefficients, shade effects. Unsteady state conduction in
building perimeters, sol-air temperature, lag and attenuation
as a function of zone aspect and construction, cooling load
characteristics for continuous and intermittent plant operation,
instantaneous heat gain, instantaneous cooling load.
Domestic installations.
Heating load estimation. Use of thermal insulation. Economic
effectiveness.
Boilers and heat generation: revise fundamentals, package
boiler units, flue-gas analysis, regulations regarding boilers and
atmospheric pollution.
References
American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning
Engineers. ASHRAE Handbooks - Fundamentals, Systems,
Applications and Equipment Volumes. Atlanta, GA, USA, Published by
this Society.
Department of Housing and Construction in association with the
Australian Institute of Refrigeration, Air Conditioning and Heating.
Mechanical Engineering Services Design Aids. Australian Government
Publishing Sewice, Canberra, 1980
ME622
Refrigeration
No. of hours per week: three hours for two
semesters
Subject aims and description
The vapour compression cycle. P-h diagram.
Properties of and selection criteria for primary and secondary
refrigerants.
The chlorine-ozone reaction.
Positive displacement compressors. Descriptive treatment of
construction of rotary vane, screw and reiprocating
compressors. Classification according to duty.
Reciprocating compressor clearance and actual volumetric
efficiency. Volumetric and isentro~ic efficiencies of all tvDes.
Effect of
internal leakage on discharge temperature akd
efficiency.
Lubrication. Viscibility. Oil trapping and return methods.
Crankcase heaters.
Multipressure systems. Flash intercoders, staged compression
and multiple evaporators. Regenerative cycles.
Evaporators and condensers. Types and applications. Heat
transfer in finned coils and shell and tube exchanges.
Circuit piping layout and sizing. Pipe insulation. Filter dryers.
Liquid-suction line exchangers.
Plant operation. Air purging, charging, pump-down and
defrosting.