THERMAL ENVIRONMENT AND HEAT LOADS IN VENTILATION AND AIR-CONDITIONING

Course guarantor:

Vladimír Zmrhal

Lecturer:

Vladimír Zmrhal

Tutor:

Vladimír Zmrhal

Supervisor:

Department of Environmental Engineering

Synopsis:

Thermal comfort conditions for people.

Interaction of the human body and environment, transfer of heat and humidity.

Forecast of thermal comfort, statistical evaluation.

Thermal comfort models (Fanger, Tanabe, Fiala).

Energy balance of people and environment, metabolic heat flow.

Criteria for assessing the thermal environment. Measurement of the indoor environment conditions.

Internal heat gains from occupants, machinery, electronics and lighting.

Heat load of buildings, unsteady calculations.

Methods of determination of heating and cooling power in air-conditioning.

Energy simulations of buildings and ventilation/air-conditioning systems.

Determining parameters of the outdoor environment. Calculation of heat loads for design of air-conditioning and ventilation systems, humidity load.

Calculations of unsteady processes in HVAC systems and buildings, energy simulations, accumulation of heat and cold.

Reference vs. extreme climatic year. Determination of long-term energy consumption of air-conditioning and

ventilation systems.

Requirements:

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Study materials:

FANGER, P.O. Thermal comfort Analysis and applications in enviromental engineering. 1972, Kingsport Press, Inc. ISBN 07-019915-9

FIALA, D. Dynamic Simulation of Human Heat Transfer and Thermal Comfort. De Montfort University, Institute of Energy and Sustainable Development, 1998, Ph.D. Thesis.

ASHRAE Handbook 2012: Fundamentals. ASHRAE Atlanta, 2012

Note:

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The course is a part of the following study plans: