Course detail

Cooling

FAST-7T0Acad. year: 2019/2020

Introduction into the cooling for air conditioning problems.
Refrigerants, their properties and current demand on them.
Heat-transfer fluids, properties.
Machine cooling and its classification
Compressor and adsorbent cooling systems. Designing of main parts of compressor cooling system.
Composition of cooling systems according to use purpose (individual assembly, fluid’s coolers, split-systems, heat pumps).
Modern trends in the cooling engineering (free cooling, accumulation into the ice).
Basics of cooling for food distribution, for industrial and medical purposes. Disposition, realisation and isolation of coolers.
Rules of project of cooler’s machine rooms

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

3

Department

Institute of Building Services (TZB)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Not applicable.

Prerequisites

Basic relationships and principles of thermomechanics and thermodynamics relative to heat modifications in cooling technique area.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Not applicable.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Not applicable.

Course curriculum

1.Thermodynamics of gas and vapour, heat circulation, theory of coolant circulations
2.Refrigerants and heat-transfer fluids – properties
3.Principles of machine cooling – steam compressor circuit
4.Adsorbent cooling, ejector cycle refrigeration system
5.Machine cooling system’s parts, heat exchangers – evaporators
6.Machine cooling system’s parts, heat exchangers – condenser
7.Machine cooling system’s parts - compressors
8. Machine cooling system’s parts - pipes, armatures, isolations …
9.Cooling mechanism automation
10.Cooling apparatus – functional unit
11.Heat pumps
12.Cool accumulation, free cooling
13.Refrigerating ceiling, cooling for food conservation.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

Basic skills in a field of cooling, especially building air conditioning, basics of designing of cooling circuits particular parts, new trends in cooling area.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

collective - 1994 ASHRAE Handbook: Refrigeration - Systems and Applications. SI Edition 1994
Dvořák,Z.: Základy chladicí techniky. SNTL/ALFA Praha 1986

Recommended reading

Gutkovski: Chladicí technika - vybrané řešené problémy. SNTL Praha 1982
H. L. von Cube + Steimle/Lotz/Kunis: Lehrbuch der Kaeltetechnik, Band 1 + 2,. C. F. Mueller Verlag Heidelberg 1997
Hewitt, G.F., Whalley,P.B.: Gas- Liquid Flow and Heat Transfer. Pergamon Press, New York 1989
Recknagel, Schramek akol: Taschenbuch fur Heizung und Klimatechnik. Oldenbourg Verlag ,Mnichov 1997

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hours, optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Exercise

13 hours, compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer