1.

COURSE SYLLABUS OF

Industrial Installations and Operational Safety

Acad. year 2013/14

2. PROFESSOR

Ciarapica Filippo

3. ECTS CREDITS 10

OFFICE

Building K, Room 0.10

SCIENTIFIC FIELD

ING-IND/17

OFFICE PHONE

0471-017 092

E-MAIL ADDRESS

filippo.ciarapica@unibz.it

4. COURSE HOURS

LECTURES

64

EXERCISES AND LABS

30

OTHERS

30

5. STUDY
PROGRAMME

Bachelor in Industrial
and Mechanical
Engineering

6. MAJOR IN

7. YEAR

3rd

SEMESTER

1st

8. PROGRAMME
STATUS

Core

9. COURSE
LANGUAGE

English

10. DESCRIPTION

This course consists of 64 hr of frontal lectures and 30 hr of practical part. The

frontal lectures and exercises are essentially focused on life cycle of an
industrial plant. The course will start by a part on fundamentals in investment
decisions. Students are introduced to cash flow analysis of an investment
taking into consideration the key performance indicators of an investment. The
second part of the course focused on plants design. Emphasis is placed on
practical methods to design the most important components of the plants
wired in a company.

11. TEACHING
FORMAT and
ORGANIZATION

This is a lecture course in which topics are presented by the Professor.

Practical parts are explained by the Professor and the Teaching Assistants.
Power Point presentations will be given to the students in pdf format before
each single lecture. Additional material will be provided by the Professor.

12. LEARNING
OUTCOMES

By the end of the course, students should be able to:

1. Have basic knowledge of investment decisions;
2. Have basic knowledge of plants design;

13. TOPICS

The course will cover the following topics:

1.
Investment decisions
Capital budgeting and cost analysis
Discounted cash flow
Net present value method
Internal rate of return method
Payback method
Project management
2.
Plants design
Piping systems
Water systems piping
Building services plants
Fire protection plants
Steam plants
Compressed air plants
Refrigeration plants

14. BASIC
BIBLIOGRAPHY

Lecture notes
Paul D. Kimmel, Donald E. Kieso. Managerial Accounting: Tools for Business
Decision Making. Wiley
Arrigo Pareschi, Impianti Industriali, Edizioni Progetto Leonardo, Bologna.

15. ELIGIBILITY

Students regularly enrolled at the 3nd year of the Bachelor Study Programme
Industrial and Mechanical Engineering.

16. RECOMMENDATIONS

Students attending this course should have already passed the exams of
Mathematics I, Experimental Physics and Energy Systems.

17. STUDENT
ASSESSMENT

Coursework will be weighted as follows: final written exam (70%), oral

examination (30%). It will not be possible to pass the exam if the final written
exam has a negative mark.