Università Roma Tre

The design process: problem definition, establishment of objectives, generation of alternatives, preliminary design, detailed design.
Thermal systems design: selection of machines and equipment, cost accounting, economic analysis.
Conventional versus optimum design process: optimum design problem formulation, design variables and degrees of freedom, cost function, design constraints, examples of optimum design problem formulations.
Design as a result of subsequent analyses: analysis model definition, mathematical formulation, sequential and simultaneous approach.
Theory of similitude and its application to design.
Optimisation of processes to produce electricity, heat and cold.
Design approach for heat transfer devices.
Steam generators: typologies, fuels, combustion, heat transfer, thermo-mechanical design criteria, efficiency.
Sizing of machines and apparatuses of thermo-mechanical plants.

CIRILLO F., Progetto di sistemi meccanici, Mc Graw-Hill.
ARORA J. S., Introduction To Optimum Design, Mc Graw-Hill.
BOEHM R. F., Design Analysis of Thermal Systems, John Wiley&son
STOECKER W. F., Design of Thermal Systems, Mc Graw-Hill International.
ANNARATONE D., Calcolo termico di generatori di vapore, Tamburini Editore.