Course detail
Environmental Engineering
FSI-ITPAcad. year: 2023/2024
On average, people in developed countries spend more than 90% of their time indoors (buildings, vehicles, etc.). The course is focused on environmental technologies, i.e. technologies for creating healthy and comfortable indoor environments. These issues include thermal comfort, indoor air quality, ventilation, heating, air-conditioning, energy conservation, and basics of engineering acoustics.
Language of instruction
Number of ECTS credits
Mode of study
Guarantor
Department
Entry knowledge
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
Attendance at seminars is obligatory. Condition for granting the credit is proper completion of exercises. In justified cases, the absence can be compensated by elaboration of individual tasks in the area of solved problems (tasks are assigned by the teacher).
Aims
Students get familiar with the technologies for creating healthy and comfortable indoor environments. Students also learn basic design and computational procedures in various areas of indoor environmental engineering.
Study aids
Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
ASHRAE handbook: Fundamentals (SI Edition). American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers Inc., [2013]. ISBN 978-1-936504-46-6
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
Recommended reading
JOKL, Miloslav. Zdravé obytné a pracovní prostředí. Nakladatelství Academia. [2002]. ISBN 8020009280
NOVÝ, Richard a kol. Technika prostředí. České vysoké učení technické v Praze. [2006]. ISBN 80-01-03492-5
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Classification of course in study plans
Type of course unit
Lecture
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
2. Thermal environment (operative temperature, PMV, PPD, DR, WBGT).
3. Indoor air quality (types of pollutants, health protection, and ways of providing required indoor air quality).
4. Building ventilation (natural ventilation, mechanical ventilation, air cleaning).
5. Ventilation technology (air transport and distribution, components of ventilation systems).
6. Energy demand of ventilation, waste heat recovery.
7. Air-conditioning systems (classification, components).
8. Sizing and operation of air-conditioning systems.
9. Space heating in buildings, classification of heating systems.
10. Heat sources and components of space heating systems.
11. Energy performance of buildings and its evaluation, integration of renewable energy sources.
12. Noise and its influence on humans, basics of engineering acoustics, health protection in noisy environments.
13. New trends in indoor environmental engineering.
Exercise
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
2. Human thermal comfort, thermal comfort diagrams.
3. Indoor air quality, calculation of ventilation rates.
4. Natural ventilation (air flow through ventilation openings and ventilation shafts).
5. Mechanical ventilation, air supply, air jets.
6. Ventilation heat recovery, air recycling.
7. Moist air calculations (heating, cooling, mixing, humidification, dehumidification).
8. Summer operation of an all-air air-conditioning system.
9. Winter operation of an all-air air-conditioning system.
10. Calculation of design heat load.
11. Sizing of space heating systems.
12. Evaluation of energy performance of buildings.
13. Noise and engineering acoustics, basic quantities and calculations.
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