Description:

Extend knowledge for design, control and evaluation of single-zone and multi-zone air conditioning systems.

Contents:

Basic characteristics of all-air, all-water, all-refrigerant air conditioning systems.Typical sigle-zone and multi-zone systems. Design and calculation of air conditioning systems (all-water (fan-coil)systems; all-refrigerant systems; all-air single-duct and dual-duct systems; combined air-water induction systems; cooling ceilings). Cooling for air conditioning. Natural ventilation of building. Quality and efficiency of ventilation, age of air. Energy balance simulation. Energy consumption of air conditioning systems.

Seminar contents:

Practice: Heat and humidity transfer, represent processes graphically in psychromeric chart, calculation of capacity parameters single-zone and multi-zone air conditioning systems.Energy consumption.

Recommended literature:

ASHRAE HANDBOOK. Fundamentals. Atlanta: ASHRAE, 2005. ISBN 1-931862-71-0
? ASHRAE HANDBOOK. HVAC Systems and Equipment Atlanta: ASHRAE, 2008. ISBN 978-1-933742-34-2
? Vedavaraz, A.; Kumar, S.; Hussain, M., I. HVAC: Handbook of heating, ventilation and air conditioning.
1st edit. New York: Industrial Press, INC., 2007. ISBN 0-8311-3163-2

Keywords:

Single-zone air-conditioning systems, multi-zone air-conditioning systems,energy consumption, energy simulation.

Abbreviations used:

Semester:

• W ... winter semester (usually October - February)
• S ... spring semester (usually March - June)
• W,S ... both semesters

Mode of completion of the course:

• A ... Assessment (no grade is given to this course but credits are awarded. You will receive only P (Passed) of F (Failed) and number of credits)
• GA ... Graded Assessment (a grade is awarded for this course)
• EX ... Examination (a grade is awarded for this course)
• A, EX ... Examination (the award of Assessment is a precondition for taking the Examination in the given subject, a grade is awarded for this course)

Weekly load (hours per week):

• P ... lecture
• C ... seminar
• L ... laboratory
• R ... proseminar
• S ... seminar