ECTS credits ECTS credits: 6
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 99 Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 24 Interactive Classroom: 24 Total: 150
Use languages Spanish, Galician, English
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Center Higher Technical Engineering School
Call: Second Semester
Teaching: Sin Docencia (En Extinción)
Enrolment: No Matriculable (Sólo Planes en Extinción)
The main objective of the course is to provide the student with the knowledge of the mechanisms and laws of heat transfer, to be able to analyze the different situations in which an exchange of thermal energy takes place, as well as to calculate and design the heat exchange equipment used in the Chemical Industry.
1. General aspects. Heat transfer mechanisms and rate equations. Equipment for heat transfer.
2. Introduction to radiation: processes and properties. Fundamental concepts.
3. Introduction to conduction. One-dimensional, steady-state conduction. Two-dimensional, steady-state conduction. Transient conduction. Numerical methods.
4. Introduction to convection. Convection coefficients. External and internal flow. Free convection.
5. Heat exchangers. Overall heat transfer coefficient. Analysis and design of heat exchangers. Insulators. Evaporators. Aspects related to safety.
Textbook of reference:
- INCROPERA, F. P., DEWITT, D. P., BERGMAN, T. L., LAVINE, A.S. 2007. Introduction to Heat Transfer. 5ª ed. NJ: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN: 978-0-471-45727/0-471-45727-2 (english).
CATALOGUE NUMBER: A114 9, A114 9 A, A114 9 B, 114 51
- INCROPERA, F.P., DEWITT, D.P. 1999. Fundamentos de Transferencia de Calor. 4ª Ed. Mexico: Prentice Hall Hispanoamericana. ISBN: 970-17-0170-4 (spanish).
CATALOGUE NUMBER: 80 40, A114 17, A114 17A, FIS 495, FIS 285
Supplementary textbooks:
- SINNOT, R., TOWLER. G. 2009. Chemical Engineering Design. Coulson & Richardson’s Chemical Engineering Volume 6. 5ª Ed. Boston: Elsevier/Butterworth-Heinemann. ISBN: 978-0-7506-8551-1 (for heat exchanger design).
CATALOGUE NUMBER: 140 16, 140 16A, A140 11, A140 11B. ISBN: 9780081026007 (Electronic resource)
- ÇENGEL, Y.A. 2007. Transferencia de calor y masa: un enfoque práctico. 3ª ed. Madrid: McGraw-Hill. ISBN: 9789701061732.
CATALOGUE NUMBER: A114 12 1 & 2, A114 12A 1 & 2, A114 12B 1 & 2, A114 12C 1 & 2, 3 A05 135 1 & 2
(Electronic resource) Transferencia de calor y masa: fundamentos y aplicaciones. México : McGraw-Hill, 2020
- HOLMAN, J.P. 1998. Transferencia de calor. 1ª Ed. (español). Madrid: McGraw-Hill/Interamericana de España. ISBN: 84-481-2040-X.
CATALOGUE NUMBER: A114 5, A114 5A, A114 5B, A114 5C, FIS 477 1
- MILLS, A. F. 1999. Heat transfer. 2nd ed. New Jersey: Prentice Hall. ISBN: 0-13-947624-5.
CATALOGUE NUMBER: 114 46, A114 1 A, A114 1 B
Specific skills:
• (CI.1.2) Knowledge of heat transfer. Basic principles and its application to the resolution of problems in engineering.
General skills:
• (CG.3) Knowledge in basic and technological subjects, that will capacitate the students for the learning of new methods and theories, and will provide them with versatility to adapt to new environments.
• (CG.6) Capacity for the utilisation of compulsory specifications, regulations and norms.
Transferable skills:
• (CT.1) Capacity of analysis and synthesis.
• (CT.4) Ability to use and develop computer software applications.
• (CT.6) Resolution of problems.
• (CT.13) Capacity to apply knowledge in practice.
In connection with competences CI.1.2, CG.3 e CG.6, aspects on safety and risk assessment will be studied, from the perspective of the course.
The students Will have available in the virtual classroom of the discipline the detailed program, the bibliography (basic and complementary) and the teaching material of the last academic year with teaching activity (2024/25). The only teaching methodology in this discipline without teaching activity are individual tutoring, focusing in solving doubts and specific problems on the theory, concepts and practical applications. Such tutorials will be requested by the students, they require a proper schedule to be agreed between students and professor, and will be carried out presential or by MS Teams according to the professor decision.
The evaluation will be carried out by an exam, comprising theoretical questions and resolution of problems, which represents 100% of final grade. A 35% grade in each part of the exam will be necessary to pass the discipline.
The evaluation system will be the same for the two opportunities (May and July).
In case of fraudulent procedures during the evaluation activities, the University rules for evaluation of academic performance of students will be applied.
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No procede
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Maria Sonia Freire Leira
- Department
- Chemistry Engineering
- Area
- Chemical Engineering
- Phone
- 881816758
- mariasonia.freire [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: Temporary PhD professor
Maria Isabel Vidal Tato
- Department
- Chemistry Engineering
- Area
- Chemical Engineering
- Phone
- 881816798
- isabel.vidal.tato [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
Óscar Rodríguez Figueiras
- Department
- Chemistry Engineering
- Area
- Chemical Engineering
- Phone
- 881816704
- oscar.rodriguez [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: Temporary PhD professor
| 01.22.2026 09:15-14:00 | Grupo de examen | Aula A10 |
| 05.26.2026 09:15-14:00 | Grupo de examen | Classroom A1 |
| 06.30.2026 09:30-14:00 | Grupo de examen | Classroom A1 |