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Heating and air conditioning

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 635-3037/01
Abbreviation VaK
Course title Heating and air conditioning
Credits 6
Coordinating department Department of Thermal Engineering
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Marek Velička, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

• Meteorological and climate basics – how it affects weather and climate heating buildings. Environmental factors - temperature, humidity, wind, solar radiation.
• Thermal comfort – definition, influences, their officials. Heat production, the equation of thermal comfort, temperature regulation. Flow in the heated space.
• Heating of buildings – types of heating, heat and fuel consumption in heating buildings.
• Heat losses of buildings – transmission the walls and ventilation losses.
• Basis of structural design and construction in terms of thermal properties.
• Ways to reduce the cost of heating, building thermal insulation.
• Categorization of heat – the boiler room, fuel economy, principles of co-production of heat and electricity, heating systems, heat pumps.
• Local heating – heaters for solid, liquid and gaseous fuels, local boiler and furnaces.
• Types of heating systems, layout and components.
• Heat pumps – principle, types, efficiency.
• Other possibilities heating – floor heating, radiant heating, infrared heating, hot air heating.
• Solar thermal systems for production of heat, types of collectors.
• Principles of ventilation – natural and mechanical ventilation, exhaust and air distribution, mixing and humidification.
• Air conditioning - air conditioning types, distribution and conditioning on the design of heat transfer fluids, climate control, air conditioning system components.

Literature

[1] HAINES, R. W., HITTLE, D. Control systems for heating, ventilating, and air conditioning. 6th ed. Boston: Kluwer Academic, 2003. ISBN 1402074174 .
[2] LIENHARD IV, J. H., LIENHARD V, J. H. A Heat Transfer Textbook. 4th ed. Cambridge: Phlogiston Press, 2012.
[3] STREETER, V. L., BEDFORD, K. W. A WYLIE, B. E. Fluid mechanics. 9th ed. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 1998. ISBN 0-07-062537-9  (Chapter 4).
[4] TALER, J., DUDA, P. Solving Direct and Inverse Heat Conduction Problems. Berlin: Springer, 2006. ISBN 978-3-540-33470-5 .

Advised literature

[1] WATKINS, D. E. Heating services in buildings: design, installation, commissioning & maintenance. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. ISBN 978-0-4706-5603-7.
[2] SIENIUTYCZ, S., JEŻOWSKI, J. Energy Optimization in Process Systems. Oxford: Elsevier, 2009. ISBN 978-0-08-045141-1 .
[3] HENS, H. Building physics: heat, air and moisture: fundamentals and engineering methods with examples and exercises. 2nd ed. Berlin: Ernst & Sohn, 2012. ISBN 978-3-433-03027-1.