Reminder:
Thermal Fluid Systems Simulation - A Practival Approach!

Date: 19 - 21 April 2010
Time: 09:00 - 16:00
Venue: Lombardy Estate, Pretoria (Click here for map and directions)

It’s our pleasure to invite you to the Practical Thermal-Fluid System Simulation Short Course
3 CPD Points - ECSA Approved.

COURSE OBJECTIVES
The aim of the course is to equip the learner with the knowledge and skills required to apply simulation in the design and optimization of complex thermal-fluid systems. It will therefore serve to refresh and enrich the learner’s knowledge and understanding of the relevant fundamentals of thermodynamics, fluid mechanics and heat transfer. In addition to this, it will facilitate the application of these fundamentals by applying it to a range of simulation case studies that will be carried out with the aid of thermal-fluid system simulation tools.


WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
Engineers and technologists who will be involved in the simulation, design and optimization of complex liquid and gas reticulation networks such as chilled water distribution systems and compressed air plants. Learners should have a working knowledge of the fundamentals of thermodynamics, fluid mechanics and heat transfer at undergraduate level.


COURSE CONTENT
Conservation principles for compressible and incompressible flows in pipes and ducts, frictional losses in laminar and turbulent flow, heat transfer with the environment, solution of pipe network problems, pump and compressor sizing, flow balancing, compressible flow in pipes with and without heat transfer, pump and compressor modelling at off-design conditions and transient flows in pipe networks.


SOMETHING ABOUT THE PRESENTER...
DR PIETER ROUSSEAU

Dr Pieter Rousseau is a registered professional engineer with wide-ranging practical experience in the simulation, design and optimization of thermal-fluid systems including heat pumps, air conditioning and gas turbine plants as well as specialised test facilities. He has pioneered and successfully commercialised several unique energy efficiency and demand side management (DSM) technologies and was leader of the design team that won the coveted ESKOM eta award in 2002 for the best energy efficient design in the South African commercial sector.

He has been a principle technical consultant for the Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR) project since 1999 and was an executive member of the design team that in 2002, in record time, developed
the world’s first operating prototype of a three-shaft, closed-loop gas turbine power plant. He also had overall responsibility as the technical lead for the design, construction and commissioning of the High Pressure Test Unit (HPTU) and High Temperature Test Unit (HTTU) of the Heat Transfer Test Facility (HTTF) that forms part of PBMR’s thermal fluid phenomena test programme.

He has been an engineering educator and researcher since 1989. He has developed and presented various formal university courses at undergraduate and post-graduate level and also presented thermal-fluid system simulation training courses in the USA and Japan. He has published more than 70 papers in international journals and conference proceedings, co-authored a chapter in a textbook on heat pump system design and optimisation and has served as study leader for numerous post-graduate students. He has served on the editorial boards of the ‘South African R&D Journal’ as well as‘Building and Environment’ and currently sits on the editorial board of the international journal ‘Nuclear Engineering and Design’.

Register On-Line

R.S.V.P on or before 31 March 2010.
Please Note: Space is limited so early registration is recommended.

Participants will receive 3 CPD points
*in terms of the requirements by the Engineering Council of South Africa

Cost per person: R 7,500.00 excl. VAT

For any queries or email based registrations please contact Monty Morris or phone us at 012 809 9500