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Industrial Facilities (Instalaciones Industriales) is an optional subject in the fourth year of the Mechanical Degree in the Escuela Politécnica de Ingeniería de Gijón, for the modules: Installations and Construction. It is a 6 ECTS credit subject in which the student is supposed to get the required skills to handle the fluid and structural considerations of an industrial piping system. It is inside the module of "Energy and environmental studies".

The scheduled activities cover, as activities to be done in class:

• 28 hours of theoretical lectures.
• 14 hours of problem solving.
• 14 hours of laboratory sessions.

It is strongly recommended that the students have passed previously the subjects "Mecánica de Fluidos", "Resistencia de Materiales", "Máquinas y Sistemas Fluidomecánicos" and "Teoría de Estructuras y Construcciones Industriales" of second and third year, in order to have acquired the skills and competences needed to apply the basic principles in a technological field.

It is expected that the students would acquire the general competences CG1, CG2, CG4, CG5, CG6, CG7, CG8, CG12, CG13, CG15 of the Degree Verification Report.

The basic competences are the CB1, CB2 and CB3, the specific competences are the CC2, CC8 and CC10, together with the specific competences of the Mechanical Branch: CM4, CM5, CM6 y CM7.

The learning results expected for any student, after completing the subject, are:

• Know and be able to foresee the forces on a given pipe and be able to design and project the different elements of a piping system. (RII-1)
• Be able to calculate an design a supply water circuit, fire protection system, gas transport piping system and similar.(RII-2)
• Be able to calculate, project and design piping systems in industrial plants and be able to obtain and minimize the environmental and other possible negative impacts of such installations.(RII-3)
• Be able to calculate, project and design fan, HVAC and fluid treatment installations.(RII-4)
• Be able to calculate, project and design noise and vibration isolation and control systems.(RII-5)

The subject comprises 150 working hours (6 ECTS), divided into two main blocks (I and II). Each of these blocks includes 5 chapters, according to the sillabus:

Part I: Fluid installations.

1. Piping systems.

2. Water supply systems.

3. Piping transient effects.

4. Ventilation systems.

5. Noise and vibrations concepts.

Part II: Industrial piping systems.

6. Piping components and materials

7. Stresses in pipes; loads and piping codes

8. Thermal expansion and piping flexibility

9. Pipe supports: restrains, flexible connections and springs.

10. Piping system analysis by FEM.

Professional orientation:

This subject has a marked practical nature, so the orientation towards the job finding is immediate in many engineering fields and companies: industrial facilities, equipment design, maintenance, machine performance analysis, among others.

Commitment with the environment:

In terms of social awareness for issues related to the environment, it should be noted the relationship of the subject with two important initiatives: the energy saving in fluid facilities and in terms of improving or limiting pollutants. In particular, air pollution and the improvement of air conditioning facilities are addressed in several chapters. Particularly, the reduction in the greenhouse effect gases is also studied.

The subject distribution foresees 60 hours at the university and 90 student individual working hours. For the detailed plan, it has been considered 2 lecturing hours per week throughout the 14 weeks of the semester, so that 28 lecturing hours are available. Also, 14 practical sessions at the class have been planned (14 weeks and one hour per week). Finally, 14 hours of laboratory sessions and simulation have been planned (7 sessions of two hours, having one each two weeks).

The working methodology can be structured in four items: group tutorials with the teacher, individual work, group works and laboratory sessions. The final mark will be closely related to the student performance in all these four items.

Exceptionally, if the limiting conditions do require so, some online activities could be implemented. In such cases, the student will be previously informed.

To pass the subject it is always needed to pass parts I and II separately.

For the ordinary evaluations of each part (I and II), the final mark of the Industrial Installation course is a weighted average between the mark of a written exam and the mark corresponding to a variety of complementary activities undertaken during the classes. The written exam accounts for a 70% in the final mark, while the other activities represent a 30% of mark (these activities include a series of homework problems, activities in the Campus Virtual and, as a major contribution, a project based problem for the students to develop a practical installation, one project for each part). A minimum mark of 4.0 points (on a 0-10 scale) in the written exam is compulsory to pass the subject, regardless the mark corresponding to the other activities.

The marks obtained for the laboratory work and for the complementary activities are valid for the January, May and July evaluations of the current academic course. For the extraordinary evaluations, the written exam will be the only test to be carried out, and its mark (on a 0-10 scale) will be weighted by a 0.7 factor. Therefore, the maximum mark in these extraordinary evaluation is 70%, if the student did not do any of the lab and other activities.

All the evaluations will consider:

-         Cleanness and general lay-out of written documents.

-         Adequate essay writing,

-         Clarity, exposition logic and explanation details.

-         Adequate use of magnitude units. Lack of coherence in the dimensions of variables in equations will be considered a series fault.

-         Reasonable values for the resulting calculations, avoiding absurd data or physically impossible.

For the "differenced evaluation", if the School considers necessary and the students is in this option, the evaluation will consist in the exam (70 %) and two small projects (one for each part, and with a total weight of 30%), that will complement the final result. The deadline to handle the projects will be the same as the exam for each year (normally in January of each academic year). Similarly to the ordinary evaluation, to pass the subject, it is required to pass each part independently (parts I and II).

Usually, the exam will be a standard written one, with the student in the room. If along any academic year any limiting conditions show up, the written exam can be changed to an online version, keeping the mark weights and other global requirements within the subject. In such exceptional cases, the students will be previously notified.

As main references, the following will be used along the lectures and other activities:

• González, J.; Fernández Oro, J.M.; Galdo, M. "Instalaciones Industriales-Parte I, Instalaciones de Fluidos (With English Summary of Each Chapter)", Ed. EdiUno, 2014.
• S.P. TIMOSHENKO, D.H. YOUNG “Teoría de las estructuras”1981 Ed. Urmo.
• Eurocódigo-3.Part 4.3-Pipelines. CEN, 2006.
• CTE-Documento Básico Seguridad Estructural SE-1- Resistencia y estabilidad y SE-1-Aptitud al servicio, ambas de 2008.
• CRANE, “Flujo de fluidos en válvulas, accesorios y tuberías”, Mc. Graw-Hill, 1987.
• J.J. del Coz Diaz, F.J. Suarez Domínguez. Instalaciones de Complejos Urbanos. EPI Gijón, 1998.
• González, J.; Argüelles, K.; Ballesteros, R.; Barrio, R.; Fernández Oro, J.M.; "Principios de Mecánica de Fluidos", Ed. Servicio Publicaciones Universidad de Oviedo, 2010.
• MINISTERIO DE FOMENTO (1998), “NTE. INSTALACIONES 1ª PARTE”, Ed. Centro de Publicaciones. Secretaría General Técnica. Ministerio de Fomento, 559 pp, ISBN 84-7433-451-9. (CST-3019/PR-164/JMA).
• MINISTERIO DE FOMENTO (1998). “NTE. INSTALACIONES 2ª PARTE”, Ed. Centro de Publicaciones. Secretaría General Técnica. Ministerio de Fomento, 519 pp, ISBN 84-7433-449-7. (CST-3020/PR-162/JMA).
• MINISTERIO DE FOMENTO (2005). “GUÍA TÉCNICA SOBRE TUBERÍAS PARA EL TRANSPORTE DE AGUA A PRESIÓN”, Ed. Centro de Estudios Hidrográficos del CEDEX, 438 pp, ISBN 0211-6502.
• OÑATE E. “Cálculo de estructuras por el método de los elementos finitos” (2ª Ed.)1995 Ed. CIMNE
• SUÁREZ DOMÍNGUEZ FJ, COZ DIAZ JJ “El ruido en la Industria: Aislamiento acústico y control del ruido). 1997, Universidad de Oviedo.