Ventilation and Air conditioning of Buildings

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Department of Indoor Enviromental and Building Services Engineering

Synopsis:

An advanced course in ventilation and air conditioning focused on deepening the core topics in the field of ventilation of specific facilities, basics of fire and smoke ventilation, air-conditioning and cooling.

Requirements:

none

Syllabus of lectures:

Introduction, air quality, principles of ventilation and air conditioning.

Ventilation of specific facilities (swimming pools and agricultural buildings).

Ventilation of specific facilities (schools, garages, kitchens).

Ventilation of clean rooms.

Heat recovery in ventilation.

Refrigeration for air conditioning.

Cooling of data centres.

Noise in air handling systems.

Control and management of air handling systems.

Selected legislative requirements for air handling systems.

Fire and smoke ventilation, smoke and heat extraction equipment.

Fire and smoke ventilation, ventilation of protected escape routes. Preventing the spread of fire by HVAC systems.

Syllabus of tutorials:

Repetition of moist air in the air conditioning, winter and summer design condition.

Design of air handling plant.

Ventilation of collective garages. Design of duct routing, calculation of pressure losses.

Fire and smoke ventilation.

Noise assessment in air handling systems.

Conceptual design of cooling system.

Study Objective:

The aim is to teach the principles of ventilation design for different operations and conditions and to recognize what is important for the design.

Study materials:

Santamouris, M; Wouters, P. Building ventilation: the state of the art, Earthscan, ISBN: 9781844071302, 313 s., 2006. (NTK TH7654 .B85 2006)

Grondzik, Walter T. Air-Conditioning System Design Manual (2nd Edition), ASHRAE, 2013, ISBN: 978-1-62198-808-3 (dostupná jako e-kniha přes knihovnu ČVUT)

Chua Kian Jon et al. Advances in Air Conditioning Technologies : Improving Energy Efficiency, Springer Singapore Pte. Limited, 2020 (dostupná jako e-kniha přes knihovnu ČVUT)

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Further information:

http://tzb.fsv.cvut.cz/?mod=vyuka&kod=125VKB

No time-table has been prepared for this course

The course is a part of the following study plans: