Testing and Energy Efficiency

Higher education teachers: Pušnik Igor

Subject description

Prerequisits:

• Prerequisite for approaching to written/oral exam are completed laboratory practices

Content (Syllabus outline):

• steady state heat transfer and heat balance,
• heat transfer (conduction, convection, radiation),
• heat transfer through walls (planparallel, cylindric),
• calculation of power and efficiency of heating devices,
• heating and cooling curve,
• temperature and temperature scales (realization and dissemination),
• thermometers (resistance, thermocouples, liquid-in-glass, radiation, thermal imagers),
• calibration of thermometers and uncertainty budget in calibration,
• energy efficiency of buildings (calculation, testing-energy certificate)

Objectives and competences:

• Course introduces knowledge in the field of testing of heating devices with emphasis on testing of energy efficiency and savings in use of energy.
• Objective is learning of basics in steady state heat transfer, ways of heat transfer (conduction, convection, radiation), basics of thermometry and calibration.
• Students acquire knowldege about modern technologies and instrumentation for measurements and testing as well as for planning and designing of required solutions.

Intended learning outcomes:

Understanding of basic terms given in the syllabus outcomes.

Learning and teaching methods:

• Lectures,
• laboratory exercises,
• home learning.

Study materials

Readings:

1. D.R. Pitts, L.E Sissom, Heat transfer, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1977
2. J.V. Nicholas, D.R. White, Traceable temperatures, John Wiley&Sons, New York, 1994
3. D.P. DeWitt, G.D. Nutter, Theory and practice of radiation thermometry, John Wiley&Sons, New York, 1988
4. W. Feist, Passive house planning package, PHI technical information, Darmstadt 2007