Università Roma Tre

The design process: problem definition, establishment of objectives, generation of alternatives, preliminary design, detailed design.
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.
Optimisation of processes to produce electricity, heat and cold.
Thermal systems design: selection of machines and equipment, cost accounting, economic analysis.
Heat exchangers: classification, design approaches, off-design performance evaluation, optimization of heat exchanger networks by applying the pinch-method.
Steam generators: typologies, fuels, combustion, heat transfer, thermo-mechanical design criteria, efficiency.
Sizing of machines and apparatuses of thermo-mechanical plants.

Lecture notes provided by the teacher.
CIRILLO F., Progetto di sistemi meccanici, Mc Graw-Hill.
STOECKER W. F., Design of Thermal Systems, Mc Graw-Hill International.
ANNARATONE D., Calcolo termico di generatori di vapore, Tamburini Editore.