MEM23006Apply fluid and thermodynamics principles in engineering

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What an assessment for MEM23006 must cover

28 assessable components: 4 elements (14 performance criteria), 6 performance evidence and 7 knowledge evidence requirements, plus 1 foundation skills. An audit-defensible tool maps every question and task back to these — that mapping is the coverage matrix Auditori generates alongside the assessment.

Elements & performance criteria

1 Determine scope of fluid or thermodynamic application

  • 1.1Determine compliance requirements of work health and safety (WHS) and regulatory requirements, codes of practice, standards, risk assessment and registration
  • 1.2Review sustainability implications of fluid and thermodynamic tasks
  • 1.3Assess fluid, thermodynamic and vacuum principles, skills and techniques required by tasks
  • 1.4Review functions and features of fluid, thermodynamic and vacuum devices, machines and systems
  • 1.5Assess software techniques needed for analysis and graphics required by the task

2 Interpret fluid or thermodynamic system design for effective performance

  • 2.1Determine the energy cost for running boilers, heat engines, compressors or turbines over a billing period
  • 2.2Determine the efficiency of conversion of energy source to electrical, fluid, thermal or mechanical power
  • 2.3Determine the sustainability of the processes

3 Recommend fluid or thermodynamic system components

  • 3.1Select components for thermal and fluid systems ensuring compatible materials, pressure, temperature and flow capacity and appropriate performance
  • 3.2Determine pumping system power requirements to provide for raising fluid, adequate flow rate and specified system losses
  • 3.3Specify components and prove or test the performance requirements of specified system
  • 3.4Seek required technical and professional assistance or clarification of design information

4 Report results

  • 4.1Ensure clear and logical process of specification development and compatibility of units in calculations
  • 4.2Record results of investigation, evaluation and application

Performance evidence

  • reviewing sustainability implications, functions and features of fluid, thermodynamic and vacuum devices, machines and systems
  • interpreting system designs for industrial applications
  • selecting components for specified technical performance on at least two occasions
  • calculating energy use in fluid, thermodynamic and vacuum system
  • assessing and applying fluid, thermodynamic and vacuum principles and software skills and techniques to engineering tasks on at least two occasions
  • reporting and documenting results of investigation, evaluation and application, calculations, diagrams, programs and files in accordance with procedures

Knowledge evidence

  • fluid mechanics and thermodynamics and their applications
  • analytical, graphical, semi-graphical and software assisted techniques for applications for fluid and thermodynamic principles in engineering
  • energy and sustainability concepts relevant to fluid and thermodynamic applications
  • principles of turbines and heat engines
  • static and hydrodynamic devices or systems
  • thermodynamic devices or systems
  • basic properties and concepts common to fluids and thermodynamics including: - atoms, molecules, inter-molecular forces, molecular motion, states of matter, solids, liquids, gases, basic properties and units - ideal or perfect gases and liquids - definitions - energy types and concepts including: - potential energy, kinetic energy and internal energy - chemical energy = energy content of a fuel - work, constant and variable force, relationship to pressure and volume changes - sensible heat and specific heat capacity (Cp and Cv) - phase change, latent heat, enthalpy and enthalpy diagram - heat transfer processes - concepts and properties of gases - energy transfer in closed and open systems including: - definition of a closed system - non-flow energy equation definition of an open system - mass and volume flow rate and the continuity equation - fluid mechanics, system components, statics, dynamics and power - vacuum technology including: - definition of vacuum - states of matter - purposes of vacuums - degrees of vacuum - methods of lowering pressure including: - displacement or transfer of gas - sorption or condensation - barometric pressure including: - inverted mercury tube - variation of atmospheric pressure with altitude - quantity of gas including mole, Avogadro’s number and molar mass - types of vacuum pumps for evacuating volumes - description of typical vacuum vessels, features and functions - applications of vacuum technology in industry - when to seek licensed technical and professional assistance

Foundation skills

  • Foundation skills: Foundation skills essential to performance are explicit in the performance criteria of this unit of competency

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Questions about assessing MEM23006

What does an assessment tool for MEM23006 need to cover?

To satisfy the Principles of Assessment and Rules of Evidence, an assessment for MEM23006 needs to address all 28 unit components: 4 elements with 14 performance criteria, 6 performance evidence requirements, 7 knowledge evidence requirements, and the foundation skills. A coverage matrix mapping each question and task to these components is what an auditor looks for.

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