Teaching Heat Exchanger Network Synthesis Using Interactive Microcomputer Graphics.

Dixon, Anthony G.

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Publication Date: 1987

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Teaching Heat Exchanger Network Synthesis Using Interactive Microcomputer Graphics.

Dixon, Anthony G.

Chemical Engineering Education, v21 n3 p118-21,156 Sum 1987

Describes the Heat Exchanger Network Synthesis (HENS) program used at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (Massachusetts) as an aid to teaching the energy integration step in process design. Focuses on the benefits of the computer graphics used in the program to increase the speed of generating and changing networks. (TW)

Descriptors: Chemical Engineering, College Science, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Graphics, Computer Uses in Education, Courseware, Engineering Education, Engineering Graphics, Heat, Higher Education, Microcomputers, Science Education, Science Instruction, Thermodynamics

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Computer Programs; Reports - Descriptive

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Language: English

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