The Chemical Engineering Department is hosting a special undergraduate lecture about design and analysis of heat exchangers.
Biography:
Dr. Ahsan Islam is a Lecturer in Biochemical Engineering in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Loughborough University, UK. He obtained his PhD in Genome and Systems Biology and Bioinformatics from the Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry at the University of Toronto, and MSc in Advanced Chemical Engineering with Biotechnology from Imperial College London. Prior to joining Loughborough University, Dr Islam was a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Chemical Engineering at MIT (https://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/chemical/staff/ahsan-islam/)
Abstract:
Heat exchangers are essential pieces of equipment for many engineering applications, including daily household space heating or air conditioning, power generation plants, waste heat recovery, and food, pharmaceutical and chemical processing plants. These devices facilitate the transfer of heat between two fluids having different temperatures without mixing them physically. Heat exchangers primarily involve convection and conduction modes of heat transfer between the fluids and the material wall separating them. In this lecture, I will discuss different types of heat exchangers, their characteristic features, applications, and limitations. I will also elaborate how to perform energy balance on a heat exchanger essential for sizing of such devices and one of the major tasks in any chemical engineering undergraduate plant design project.