Máquinas Térmicas

It is intended that the students apply, the knowledge of fluid mechanics, heat transmission and thermodynamics acquired throughout the course to the subject of thermal machines: internal combustion reciprocating engines and gas turbines. One intends that the students acquire the typical working and studying languages these machines, the capacity to analyze their thermodynamic behaviour and consequences and implications of the modifications introduced, and the knowledge that allow them to remain actualized.

More concretely one intends from students to acquire a common knowledge on thermal machines - internal combustion reciprocating engines, Gasoline and Diesel, and gas turbines.Acquire the knowledge of the working requirements of these machines. Acquire the relative knowledge of the internal combustion engines contribution to the atmospheric pollution.

One intends the students apply the knowledge of fluid mechanics, heat transmission and thermodynamics acquired throughout the course to the understanding these machines working behaviour. Identify and quantify the working and project parameters of these machines.Identify the adjusted machine type to each type of utilization.Identify the necessary measures to minimize the internal combustion engines contribution for the atmospheric pollution.

It is also intended to develope in the students the skills of: seek for information and process it, ability to work autonomously, self learning, problem solving, apply knowledge to new situations; technical writing dexterity, presentation techniques, communicative aptitude, concern for quality of the essay’s final text, turning technology into business.