Course overview
The course covers the basics of thermal energy technologies that are common for combustion and fuels, with an emphasis on high temperature production processes. This course provides knowledge and skills necessary to understand, analyse and design modern combustion systems to account for fuel types, fuel properties, maximise output and minimise air pollution, including hybridising combustion with concentrated solar thermal energy and fuel upgrading using solar thermal energy. This course aligns with the programs intent to demonstrate a chemical engineering body of knowledge and apply this knowledge along with critical thinking, creativity, and innovation for industrial and real-life complex problems.
Course learning outcomes
- Recognise the ongoing role of combustion, both of fossil and bio-fuels, in providing a more sustainable energy source for society, and the environmental challenges to be met to achieve this
- Apply the principles of combustion
- Explain the complexities of industrial combustion processes
- Summarise the mechanisms of combustion generated air pollution and the techniques that can be used to control them
- Summarise the complementary roles of measurements, modelling and scaling in understanding combustion, and in solving industrial problems
- Summarise the safety and handling issues associated with combustion
- Outline the impact of different fuel properties on industrial combustion systems
- Outline the potential of combining combustion and solar thermal technologies as a route towards sustainable energy production
Degree list
The following degrees include this course