B.E. (Chemical Engineering) Heat Transfer Operations Syllabus - Mumbai University 2026
The University has moved this degree onto NEP 2020 one year at a time. The first and second years are NEP 2020 syllabi; the third and fourth years are still examined on the REV-2019 'C' Scheme, which is what the University sets for them this year.
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Syllabus for Heat Transfer Operations
Module 1: Conduction printed in the syllabus as Module Detailed Content
- Basic Fundamentals and Modes of Heat Transfer with its rate expressions. Concept of Thermal Resistance and Heat Transfer Coefficient Steady State Conduction: Fourier's Law, thermal conductivity, conduction through a flat slab, composite slab, conduction through a cylinder wall, composite cylinder, Conduction through hollow sphere, composite sphere. Critical radius of insulation. Unsteady state conduction:-Lumped Parameter Analysis – systems with negligible internal resistance. Biot number. Fourier number, Numericals.
Module 2: Convection: Heat Transfer without Phase Change: printed in the syllabus as Module Detailed Content
- Natural Convection: Introduction, Natural convection currents. Heat transfer correlations. Numericals. Forced Convection: Introduction, thermal and hydrodynamic boundary layer, Heat transfer in laminar and turbulent boundary layers. Significance of various dimensionless numbers. Empirical correlations. Various analogies. Numericals.
Module 3: Condensation & Boiling: Heat Transfer with Phase Change printed in the syllabus as Module Detailed Content
- Condensation: Introduction, types of condensation, Nusselt’s theory of condensation, correlations for vertical and horizontal tube, plate. Numericals. Boiling: Heat transfer to boiling liquids, Pool Boiling Curve, Correlations for estimating the boiling heat transfer coefficients.
Module 4: Radiation printed in the syllabus as Module Detailed Content
- Introduction, Radiation Fundamentals, Laws of radiations. Radiative heat exchange between surfaces, Multiple reflection method, Radiation shield. Heat Transfer in Furnaces. Numericals.
Module 5: Heat Exchangers printed in the syllabus as Module Detailed Content
- Introduction, Types of flow, energy balance, rate of heat transfer, individual and Overall Heat Transfer Coefficients, LMTD, Wilson plot and fouling factors. Classification of Heat Exchangers. Preliminary process design of Double pipe heat exchangers. TEMA exchanger types, their nomenclature, choice of exchanger type, Design of Shell & tube heat exchangers: by Kerns method. Bell Delaware method. Effectiveness-NTU method. Heat transfer in agitated vessels and correlations, Extended surface heat exchangers, Fin efficiency and fin effectiveness, calculation of rate of heat transfer. Plate Heat Exchanger, Spiral Heat Exchanger. Numericals.
Module 6: Evaporators printed in the syllabus as Module Detailed Content
- Types of Evaporators, Performance, Capacity and Economy, Boiling Point Elevation, Methods of Feeding for MEE. Process design aspects of evaporators.
Text Books
- 1 MaCabe W. L., Smith J. C., Harriot P., Unit Operations of Chemical Engineering, 5th edition, McGraw Hill,1993.
- 2 Cengel, Y. A. (2006). Fluid mechanics: fundamentals and applications. New Delhi, India: Tata McGraw-Hill Publishing.
- 3 D. Q. Kern, Process Heat Transfer, McGraw hill, 1997.
- 4 R. K. Sinnot, Coulson & Richardsons Chemical Engineering Design, Vol 1 & 6, Elsevier Science & Technology Books.
- 1 Holman J. P., Heat Transfer, 9th Edition, McGraw Hill, 2008.
- 2 B. K. Datta, Heat Transfer: Principles and applications, PHI learning Sr. No. Website Name
Reproduced from the University of Mumbai syllabus for B.E. (Chemical Engineering) under NEP 2020, in force from the academic year 2025-26. Wording is as printed in that syllabus. Modules are numbered in sequence here; in the syllabus itself, Module 1 is printed as Module Detailed Content; Module 2 is printed as Module Detailed Content; Module 3 is printed as Module Detailed Content; Module 4 is printed as Module Detailed Content; Module 5 is printed as Module Detailed Content; Module 6 is printed as Module Detailed Content. The PDF above is the syllabus's own page, unaltered.
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