Modules

Due to Covid-19 restrictions, learning and teaching activities on campus as described in the module descriptors are currently restricted. Learning and teaching will be enabled through a mixture of scheduled online activity where you will be able to engage with your tutor and classmates in real-time and unscheduled guided activity where you will be required to complete activities and tasks at a time which best suits you. Teaching will take place on campus, wherever possible, and where this is safe to happen.

Definitive information on module delivery during 2020/21 will be provided on Module Moodle Sites. For specific enquiries please contact the module leaders directly.

Core Module Information
Module title:	Advanced Energy Systems
SCQF level:	10:
SCQF credit value:	20.00
ECTS credit value:	10
Module code:	MEC10122
Module leader:	Viviani Onishi
School	School of Engineering and the Built Environment
Subject area group:	Mechanical Materials and Manufacturing Management

Prerequisites

Module code: MEC08120
Module title: Thermofluids
Examples of equivalent learning: Mechanics and Thermofluids equivalent to SCQF level 8.

Description of module content:

- Multi-dimensional steady-state conduction.
- Performance of extended surfaces.
- Transient conduction, lumped capacitance model.
- Forced and natural convection for internal and external geometries.
- Regression relationships for convection, and their use.
- Thermal radiation, view factors and radiation exchange,
- Modelling of advanced energy systems, the use and significance of dimensionless parameters.
- Multi-mode heat transfer systems.
- Principles and design of heat exchangers, log-mean temperature and NTU approaches to design.

Learning Outcomes for module:

LO1: Accurately assess the basic principles of heat transfer processes and explain these processes in advanced energy systems (e.g., heating & cooling systems, heat exchangers);
LO2: Select relevant principles to obtain solutions to assess performances of advanced energy systems;
LO3: Use selection of energy analysis and design software, to design effective advanced energy systems;
LO4: Present analyses of an advanced energy system in a proper format of a written report.

Full Details of Teaching and Assessment

2022/3, Trimester 1, BLENDED, Edinburgh Napier University
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Occurrence:	001
Primary mode of delivery:	BLENDED
Location of delivery:	MERCHISTON
Partner:	Edinburgh Napier University
Member of staff responsible for delivering module:	Viviani Onishi
Module Organiser:

Student Activity (Notional Equivalent Study Hours (NESH))
Mode of activity	Learning & Teaching Activity	NESH (Study Hours)
Face To Face	Tutorial	24
Online	Guided independent study	89
Independent Learning	Guided independent study	60
Face To Face	Centrally Time Tabled Examination	3
Face To Face	Lecture	24
	Total Study Hours	200
	Expected Total Study Hours for Module	200

Assessment
Type of Assessment	Weighting %	LOs covered	Week due	Length in Hours/Words
Project - Written	40	1,2,3,4	11	HOURS= 00.00, WORDS= 2500
Centrally Time Tabled Examination	60	1,2,3	14/15	HOURS= 03.00, WORDS= 0
Component 1 subtotal:	40
Component 2 subtotal:	60
Module subtotal:	100

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