Course syllabus

Welcome to the course VIN032!

This course consists of lectures, calculation exercises, a substantial design exercise that runs through the course and some laborations. It will be held on-site at Chalmers.

The aim of the course is to provide a basic understanding of the:

• Requirements on the indoor and working environment of buildings, vehicles etc. to promote good health and first-rate living and working conditions.
• Working principles of air conditioning and air distribution components such as heaters, coolers, humidfiers, fans, pumps and refrigeration machinery.
• Design, function and control of technical systems for providing heating, cooling and ventilation to comply with the requirements on indoor environment.
• Implications of the design of technical systems on temperature levels and available sources of energy supply.
• Energy efficient design; Consequences of design and operation of technical systems on energy usage.

The focus is on building applications given their dominating effect on global use of energy. The contents of the course include:

Applications of Heating, Ventilating and Air Conditioning (HVAC) engineering
- The concept and functional requirements of indoor climate
- System consequences of indoor climate control, including energy supply

Energy balance of conditioned spaces
- Indoor environment and its effect on energy use
- The energy balance of rooms and buildings
- Heating and cooling, humidification and dehumidification, and ventilation
- Heat recovery, thermal power and energy, load duration diagrams

HVAC systems and equipment
- HVAC system categories
- Heating systems, cooling systems, ventilation systems
- Air-conditioning systems and heat recovery systems
- Air and hydronic distribution systems and terminal units
- Control system and controllability

Energy supply systems
- External and internal heating and cooling systems

Anders Trüschel (main teacher)

anders.truschel@chalmers.se

031-772 11 67