Fundamentals of Industrial Process Heating Online Course
IHEA Fundamentals of Industrial Process Heating course is taught over a 6 week period and designed to give you the flexibility you need, with the interaction with an instructor and forums to communicate with other students in your class. Each week students will be assigned a chapter to read from the Fundamental of Process Heating course book (electronic version included with course registration), and expected to participate in on-line forum discussions and complete weekly quizzes. There is a final exam project which will be assigned during the fifth week of class. The moderator will be available by email to respond to questions and provide clarification.
This course is designed to give the student a fundamental understanding of the mechanisms of heat transfer within an industrial furnace and the associated losses and the operation of a heating source either as fuel combustion or electricity. All concepts are derived mathematically with limited use of “rules of thumb “.
As one of our prime objectives, the student will learn how to properly size the heating system to accomplish the required furnace output.
Radiant heat transfer, in particular, is a very complex phenomena requiring rigorous mathematical analysis. It is rarely addressed at the undergraduate level. Therefore, the student should have a solid basis in undergraduate thermodynamics for this course.
WEEKLY CHAPTER OVERVIEW
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Combustion Fundamentals & Fuels
- Arithmetic and algebraic operations
- Energy forms and terms
- Conversion factors and units
- Combustion chemistry
- Gaseous Fuels
- Liquid Fuels
Combustion Equipment for Gaseous and Liquid Fuels
- Gas Burners
- Oil Burners
- Dual Fuel Burners
- Control of Fuel-Air Ratios
- Oil Flow Control
- Combustion Air Sources
- Oxygen-Enriched Combustion
- Ignition of Fuel
- Combustion Safety Equipment
Elements of Heat Transmission
- Convection
- Conduction
- Radiation
- Heat to Change
- Heat Transfer Calculations
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Heat Balance and Efficiency Calculations
- Furnace Heat Balance
- Simplified Heat Balance
- Furnace Wall Losses
- Conveyor and Fixture Losses
- Heat Storage Losses
- Excess Air Losses
- Software Tools
- Turndown Requirements
Advanced Heat Transfer Principles
- Heat Transfer in Furnaces Loads
- Rate of Heat Absorption by the Charge
- Industrial Furnace Applications of Heat Transfer
- Burner Selection
- Heat Transfer in Continuous Slot-Type
Fundamentals of Electrical Heating
- Electrical Heating Advantages
- Comparative Costs of Electric vs. Fuel-Fired
- Types of Electric Heating Elements
- Element Life
- Design and Selection of Elements
- Safety
- Power Control Arrangements
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