Fundamentals of Indoor Environmental Engineering (FSI-IZR)

Academic year 2018/2019
Supervisor: doc. Ing. Pavel Charvát, Ph.D.  
Supervising institute: EÚ all courses guaranted by this institute
Teaching language: Czech
Aims of the course unit:
The course objective is to make students familiar with the basic concepts and techniques used to create an optimal indoor environment. Students will learn of the design and operation of equipments of thermal and humidity comfort (heating/cooling/humidification/dehumidification), air cleanliness control, impacts of nois on human and means of noise reduction in working environment.
Learning outcomes and competences:
Students will gain essential knowledge of ventilation, air-conditioning and heating systems, evaluation of indoor air quality and the means of noise reduction.
Prerequisites:
Basic knowledge of physics, mathematics and thermomechanics.
Course contents:
The course is concerned with the following topics: Microclimate and its evaluation. Environmental comfort. Thermal comfort. Indoor air quality. Ventilating systems. Total and local ventilation, local exhausting. Air motion in ventilated spaces. Air-conditioning equipment and its components. Air-conditioning systems. Heat losses of buildings. Heating systems and equipment. Noise and vibrations, effect on human health, technical means to reduction of noise.
Teaching methods and criteria:
The course is taught through lectures explaining the basic principles and theory of the discipline. Exercises are focused on practical topics presented in lectures.
Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes:
Graded course-unit credit requirements: passing two tests in 7th and 13th week of the term.
Controlled participation in lessons:
Knowledge revision in the form of two compulsory tests in 7th and 13th week of the term. Missed lessons/tests, in justified cases, will be compensated by an additional test.
Type of course unit:
    Lecture  13 × 2 hrs. optionally                  
    Exercise  13 × 1 hrs. compulsory                  
Course curriculum:
    Lecture Microclimate and its evaluation. Environment comfort and thermal comfort.
Air cleanliness. Pollution effects on human beings.
Ventilation systems. Air change evaluation. Air jets.
Flow patterns. Natural ventilation.
Total forced ventilation - design of the ventilation equipments.
Local ventilation. Exhausting equipments and exhaust hoods.
Economy of ventilation equipment, heat recovery systems.
Air-conditioning plants and their components.
Air-conditioning systems - all-air, all-water and refrigerant.
Warm water heating, heating systems and heating bodies, large surface heating.
Hot water and steam heating. Radiant heating of large-volume buildings.
Warm air heating. Heat consumption measurements of heating.
Noise and vibrations. Physiological impacts of noise on human beings. Means of noise reduction.
    Exercise Measurement of quantities used to determine thermal state of the environment.
Evaluation of the thermal state of the environment. Diagrams of comfort.
Calculation of air change due to ventilation.
Calculation of isothermal jets.
Calculation of nonisothermal jets.
Calculation of natural interrupted ventilation, and airshaft ventilation.
Revision test.
Calculation of building heat losses - ČSN EN 12831 .
Calculation of heat losses of given rooms.
Calculation of heat losses of given rooms.
Dimensioning of heating appliances.
Calculation of an air shower.
Revision test.
Literature - fundamental:
1. McQUISTON, Faye C., Jerald D. PARKER and Jeffrey D. SPITLER. Heating Ventilating, and Air Conditioning, John Wiley and Sons, [2005]. ISBN 0-471-66154-6
3. ASHRAE Handbook - Heating, Ventilating, and Air-Conditioning Systems and Equipment (SI Edition). American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers Inc., [2012]. ISBN 9781936504268
Literature - recommended:
1. NOVÝ, Richard a kol. Technika prostředí. České vysoké učení technické v Praze. [2006]. ISBN 80-01-03492-5
2. JANOTKOVÁ, Eva. Technika prostředí - 1. a 2. část. FSI VUT v Brně, [2014]. Elektronická verze v pdf dostupná v e-learningu.
The study programmes with the given course:
Programme Study form Branch Spec. Final classification   Course-unit credits     Obligation     Level     Year     Semester  
B3S-P full-time study B-EPP Power Engineering, Processes and Environment -- GCr 3 Compulsory-optional 1 2 S