Introduction to Cooling Airflow Systems Web Seminar RePlay
Vehicle functional requirements, diesel emission regulations, and subsystem thermal limits all have a direct impact on the design of a powertrain cooling airflow system. Severe duty cycles, minimal ram air, fouling, and sometimes unconventional package layouts present unique challenges to the designer. This course introduces many airflow integration issues and vehicle-level trade-offs that effect system performance and drive the design.
The goal of this course is to introduce engineers and managers to the basic principles of diesel cooling airflow systems for commercial and off-road vehicles. Participants will learn about vehicle/product constraints, integration issues, cooling airflow, system resistance, fans, shrouds, radiators, coolers, estimating heat rejection, thermal recirculation, and overall system performance. Basic concepts will be reinforced with examples and a cooling performance calculation of a diesel cooling system.
The goal of this course is to introduce engineers and managers to the basic principles of diesel cooling airflow systems for commercial and off-road vehicles. Participants will learn about vehicle/product constraints, integration issues, cooling airflow, system resistance, fans, shrouds, radiators, coolers, estimating heat rejection, thermal recirculation, and overall system performance. Basic concepts will be reinforced with examples and a cooling performance calculation of a diesel cooling system.
What Will You Learn
By participating in this online course, you will be able to:
- Define vehicle requirements and many cooling airflow system integration issues
- Describe heat exchanger sizing considerations, design alternatives, and thermal effectiveness
- List fan/shroud aerodynamic design parameters, guidelines, and installation effects
- Apply the fan laws to evaluate alternative designs
- Calculate fan operating point and airflow using component pressure-loss coefficients
- Estimate engine heat rejection to coolant, including Exhaust Gas Recirculation (EGR)
- Calculate steady-state thermal performance of a diesel cooling airflow system
Course Information
COURSE LENGTH
12.00 Hours
ACCESS PERIOD
90 Days
Is This Course For You
OEM and supplier engineers and managers who are involved with vehicle cooling systems, or who interface with vehicle program management on these issues, will benefit from this web seminar. Graduate-level students interested in cooling systems will also find it instructive.
Materials Provided
- 90 days of online single-user access (from date of purchase) to the approximately 12 hour, recorded presentation
- Course workbook (downloadable, .pdf's)
- Online learning assessment
- Instructor follow up to your content questions
- 1.2 CEUs* (upon completion of all course modules and satisfactory assessment score)
*SAE International is authorized by IACET to offer CEUs for this course.
Course Requirements
- Windows 7, 8 (Apple OSX and Unix/Linux are not supported but may work)
- Pentium 4 PC
- Minimum 512 MB RAM; recommended 1 GB RAM
- Internet Explorer 10-11, Mozilla Firefox 37, Google Chrome 42 (Safari and Opera are not supported)
- Broadband-1Mbps minimum
Topics
Session 1: Vehicle Perspective
- Overview Typical Cooling Airflow Systems
- Design Drivers
- A Classification of Vehicle Cooling Systems
- Industrial Air-cooled Heat Exchanger Assemblies
- Impact of System & Sub-system Requirements
- Thermal Recirculation
- Design Challenges
- 1st Law of Aerodynamics
- Radiator Heat Transfer Equation
- Definition of Standard Air
- Airflow Terminology and Standard Cubic Feet per Minute (SCFM)
- Bernoulli’s Equation and Ram Pressure
- Pressure Loss Coefficient
- Vehicle Air Flow Restrictions – Flow Energy Losses
- Construct a System Pressure Loss Curve
- Fan Classification and Specific Speed
- Fan Characteristic Curve and System Matching
- Air Performance Test Chambers (AMCA)
- Axial Fan Systems, Pusher and Puller
- Exercise the Fan Laws to Evaluate Design Alternatives
- Shroud Design Considerations
- Vehicle Installation Effects – Fan Position, Tip Clearance, Radiator Proximity
- Ram Airflow
- Flow Energy Balance Equation
- Fan Operation with Ram
- Ram Total-Pressure Recovery
- Calculate System Loss Curve, Fan Operating Point and Cooling Airflow
- Thermal Classification of Heat Exchangers
- Compact Heat Exchangers in Vehicle Applications
- Radiator Effectiveness and Louvered Fins
- Charge Air Coolers, Performance Calculation Against Requirements
- Air-Side Fouling Study and Heat Exchanger Design Considerations
- Thermal Accumulation Calculation
- SAE Dynamometer Gross Power Test Procedures
- Dynamometer Data on Engine Heat Rejection
- Brake Mean Effective Pressure (BMEP), A Power Density
- Specific Heat Rejection (SHR) Characteristic Curve
- EGR Heat Rejection to Coolant
- Evaluation of Diesel Cooling System
- Tools and Methods for System Development