Thermal Environment and Thermal Load in Air-Conditioning and Ventilation

Course guarantor:

František Drkal

Lecturer:

František Drkal, Vladimír Zmrhal

Tutor:

František Drkal, Vladimír Zmrhal

Supervisor:

Department of Environmental Engineering

Synopsis:

Garant: Prof. Ing. František Drkal, CSc.

Conditions for human thermal comfort. Thermal interaction of the human body with environment, heat and moisture transfer. Prediction of thermal comfort, statistic evaluation.

Cooling load of buildings, non-stationary calculation. The determination of heat and cooling capacity in air-conditioning. Energy simulation of building and ventilation/air-conditioning equipment.

Requirements:

Syllabus of lectures:

Energy balance of people and environment, metabolic rate of heat. Prediction of thermal comfort. Criteria for evaluation of quality of thermal environment. Measuring of indoor environment state. Decesive parameters of outdoor climate. Calculation of thermal load for air-conditioning and ventilation dimensioning, moisture gains. Calculation of unsteady processes in mechanical equipments and buildings, energy simulation, heat and cold storages. Test reference year. Determination of long-term energy consumption for air-conditioning and ventilation.

Syllabus of tutorials:

Study Objective:

Study materials:

F.C. Quiston, J.D. Spitler: Cooling and Heating Load Calculation Manual. ASHRAE Atlanta, 1994

2005 ASHRAE Handbook: Fundamentals. ASHRAE Atlanta, 2005

A.Vedavarz, S.Kumar, M.Hussain: Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning Handbook for Design and Implementation, Industrial Press, 2007

F.C. McQuiston, J.D. Parker, J.D. Spitler: Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning Analysis and Design, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2005

Note:

Time-table for winter semester 2024/2025:

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The course is a part of the following study plans: