Description:

Knowledge improvement from the field of heating of residential and industrial buildings. Designing of convective and radiant heating systems.

Contents:

Computation of total building heat-losses by EN, heat and fuel requirement. Designing and computation of parallel and counter flow two-pipe heating systems or single-pipe heating systems. Hydraulics of heating systems with respect to varied regulation of pumps. Small heat sources. Electric heating.

Seminar contents:

Practise: Computation of total building heat-losses by EN, heat and fuel requirement. Designing and computation parallel and counter flow two-pipe heating systems or single-pipe heating systems. Hydraulics of heating systems with respect to varied regulation of pumps. Small heat sources. Electric heating.

Recommended literature:

study materials made by a lecturer
? Howell, R.H., Coad, W.J., Sauer, H.J.: Principles of Heating Ventilating and Air Conditioning. ASHRAE.
Atlanta 2009. ISBN 978-1-933742-69-4
? Kishore, V.V.N.: Renewable Energy Engineering and Technology. London 2009. ISBN 978-1-84407-9-699-4

Keywords:

heating, hydraulics

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