Course Details
Cooling of Buildings
Academic Year 2023/24
BTB008 course is part of 1 study plan
BPC-SI / S Summer Semester 4th year
The goal of this subject is to inform students with the issue of cooling for needs of air-condition and the basics of cooling for conservation of foods. Introduction is about principal terms of the thermodynamics and the theory of cooling cycles. Primary content of this subject are kinds of machines which are used in cooling, classification and the main parts of cooling systems. Refrigerants and heat-transfer fluids - properties and present requirements on them. Cooling machine rooms. Proper standards. Another theme is new and present trend in the cooling technologies and energy saving cooling methods, including accumulation of cold.
Course Guarantor
Institute
Objective
Basics of cooling technique.
Knowledge
Students will get basic knowledge of cooling systems in buildings. Students will be able to use this knowledge for choice of effective systems and for design of basic systems of cooling in buildings.
Syllabus
1. An introduction to cooling systems. Refrigeration cycles.
2. Building thermal load calculation. Cooling capacity. Project documentation.
3. Refrigerants and secondary coolants.
4. Ends elements - fan coil units, induction units.
5. Chillers.
6. Liquid coolers, cooling towers, water treatment.
7. Hydraulic of cooling systems. Thermal insulation.
8. Chilled ceilings.
9. Split system. The concept of cooling systems. Cooling machine rooms.
10. Cold rooms and freezer rooms.
11. Alternative and passive cooling systems.
2. Building thermal load calculation. Cooling capacity. Project documentation.
3. Refrigerants and secondary coolants.
4. Ends elements - fan coil units, induction units.
5. Chillers.
6. Liquid coolers, cooling towers, water treatment.
7. Hydraulic of cooling systems. Thermal insulation.
8. Chilled ceilings.
9. Split system. The concept of cooling systems. Cooling machine rooms.
10. Cold rooms and freezer rooms.
11. Alternative and passive cooling systems.
Prerequisites
Principles of thermodynamics and heat transfer, ventilation, air-conditioning, heating, dimensioning of pipe networks, creation of project documentation, calculation of noise transmission
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
4 credits
Semester
summer
Forms and criteria of assessment
course-unit credit and examination
Specification of controlled instruction, the form of instruction, and the form of compensation of the absences
Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.
Offered to foreign students
Not to offer
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
1. An introduction to cooling systems. Refrigeration cycles.
2. Building thermal load calculation. Cooling capacity. Project documentation.
3. Refrigerants and secondary coolants.
4. Ends elements - fan coil units, induction units.
5. Chillers.
6. Liquid coolers, cooling towers, water treatment.
7. Hydraulic of cooling systems. Thermal insulation.
8. Chilled ceilings.
9. Split system. The concept of cooling systems. Cooling machine rooms.
10. Cold rooms and freezer rooms.
11. Alternative and passive cooling systems.
Exercise
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
1. Cooling cycles.
2. Building thermal load calculation.
3. Dimensioning of the fan coil units/induction units. Drawings documentation.
4. Chiller - variant A.
5. Chiller - variant B with a cooling tower.
6. Cooling system schematic. Drawings documentation.
7. Dimensioning of the pipes.
8. Chilled ceilings.
9. Split systems.
10. Cold rooms/freezer rooms.
11. Completation