SELECTED TOPICS OF VENTILATION AND AIR-CONDITIONING

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Department of Environmental Engineering

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•Principles of ventilation. Requirements for indoor air quality. Sources of indoor environmental degradation.

•Balance of a ventilated room with a constant and variable source of pollutants.

•Natural, hybrid and forced ventilation – design methods. Ventilation concept.

•Thermodynamic properties of dry and humid air. Theory of humid air and application of psychrometric principles. Advanced air treatments in ventilation and air-conditioning. Outdoor and indoor climatic conditions.

•Heat load of air-conditioned and non-conditioned rooms.

•Theory of isothermal and non-isothermal air flow in rooms, simulations. Methods of distribution and diffusion of air in rooms. Selection and positioning of the terminal elements for supply and exhaust of air.

•Design of air ducts.

•Ventilation of civil buildings - residential premises, etc.

•Industrial ventilation.

•Design of single-zone and multi-zone air conditioning systems. Air systems, combined air - water systems, water systems incl. cooling ceilings, refrigeration systems.

•Selection, design and control of ventilation and air conditioning systems.

•Distribution of heat, cold and fresh air in buildings. Free cooling by outdoor air.

•Analysis of heat transfer in ventilation and air-conditioning systems, dimensioning of devices for minimal energy consumption. Energy demand for heating and cooling of air. Recuperation of heat and humidity.

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•Geshwiler, M.: Psychrometrics Theory and Practice, ASHRAE Atlanta, 1996

•Vedavarz, A., Kumar, S., Hussain, M.: Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning Handbook for Design and

Implementation, Industrial Press, 2007

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

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