Heat exchangers

Know and apply the laws of convective transfer.
Know how to size heat exchangers. Know the different heat exchanger technologies.
Know how to write a heat and mass balance on a product being dried.
Understand the kinetics of entrainment and boiling drying.

Heat transfer module (S6)

Convective transfers

Basic equation and application to container heating
Calculation of convective transfer coefficients


Heat exchangers

Heat exchanger technology
Heat exchanger operating principles and sizing


Coupled heat and mass transfers: application to drying

Reminders: material transfer, moist air, water in solids
Entrainment and boiling drying: product balance, kinetics, examples of atomization and frying

Engineering Sciences and Techniques

Food process engineering: from basics to applications. J. J. Bimbenet et all. Dunod, RIA ed 2002
Handouts and documents distributed at the beginning of the course