MEEN 435: Compressed Air Systems
Course Description
Credits 3.
3 Lecture Hours.Basic principles, thermodynamics, and performance of compressed air systems including various components, such as compressors, reciprocating, rotary, centrifugal, and axial, prime movers, coolers, intercoolers, aftercoolers, dryers, heat recovery, receivers, separators, filters, regulators, fault detectors, controllers etc.; exploration of performance and analysis and operating principles for both systems and components, energy consumption and economic analysis for system design and operation.Prerequisite:Grade of C or better inMEENÂ 315or equivalent; junior or senior classification.