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Experimental measurement techniques and thermoenergetical data treatment [820758]

Teaching Unit (for year 2): Elective #3

Face-to-face time

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`40`
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hours

Student workload

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`85`
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hours

ECTS

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`5`
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Responsible Teacher

Joaquim RIGOLA

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Pedagogic Team

Carles OLIET

Jesús CASTRO

Deniz KIZILDAG

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Aims of the teaching

The purpose of this course is to obtain basic training in the development of types of measurement sensors and their integration into experimental systems (data acquisition and software, regulation, and control). Acquiring a very active competence in terms of physical principles that determine the time response. Then, a certain sensor can be detected, as well as the possible interactions that may exist between the measuring probe and the reading to be done (distortion effects of the probe intrusion problem, effects of thermal inertia on transient measurements, etc.). Learn treatment of the experimental data obtained, filtering or post-processing when necessary, evaluation of the corresponding measurement errors, etc.

The main contents are:

Data Acquisition and Control System.

Temperature, pressure, and mass flow rate measurements

Hot-wire anemometry.

Humidity

Vacuum measurements.

Intended Learning outcomes (measured by the assessment)

At the end of the course, the student has to acquire knowledge on:

Introduction to the basic aspects of experimental techniques in thermal energy, seeking the utmost rigor, possibilities, and limitations.

Introduction to the analysis of experimental data, acquisition, and control, as well as analysis and measurement.

Deepening in experimental measurement techniques such as temperature, pressure, flow, speed, humidity, gas analysis, etc.

Application to the detailed experimental validation of basic transfer phenomena of heat and mass. Application to the contrast of numerical results and tests experiments on thermal systems and equipment of great industrial and social importance: compression refrigeration, heat exchangers, airtight compressors, absorption refrigeration, HVAC (ventilation, air conditioning in buildings, optimization of glazed facades, etc.), active and passive solar systems, heat accumulators, etc.

Carrying out laboratory practices that allow the student to become aware of the concrete applications, of the possibilities developed, as well as of the experimental techniques and for measuring and estimating experimental errors in the units available.

Learning activities and approach

E-learning (online)

Lectures (onsite)

30h

Tutorials (onsite)

10h

Useful information

Location

-Escola Tècnica Superior d’Enginyeries Industrials de Barcelona (ETSEIB)

Practical work equipment

Other information

Assessment method

Practical work group, proposed exercises, written exam (the percentage distribution is detailed in UPC courses guides

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https://estudis.etseib.upc.edu/ca/degree/1387⁠

)

Prerequisites

Fundamentals of thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and heat transfer necessary to understand the phenomena involved in the measurements.

Related literature

Benedict, R.P., Fundamentals of temperature, pressure and flow measurements, John Wiley & Sons, 3rd edition, 1984.

Holman, J.P, Experimental Methods for Engineers, McGraw-Hill, New York, 5th edition, 1989.

Northrop, R. B., Introduction to instrumentation and measurements, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 2nd edition, 2005.

Baker, H.D., Ryder, E.A., Baker, N.H., Temperature measurement in engineering, vol.I i II, Omega Press, 1975.

P.R. Wiederhold, Water vapor measurement: methods and instrumentation, Marcel Dekker Inc., New York, 1997.

ASHRAE HANDBOOK – Fundamentals, Capítol Psychrometrics, ASHRAE, USA, 2005.

Herold, K. E. ,Radermacher, R., Klein, S. A., Absorption chillers and heat pumps, CRC Press, 1996.

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