Teaching Responsibility
LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:
Civil Engineering and Built Environment
Learning Methods
Lecture
Tutorial
Module Offerings
5332BEUG-SEP-CTY
Aims
To develop the student's understanding of the principles of heat transfer, thermodynamics and general engineering and the application of these principles to sustainable and energy efficient design and operation of building engineering systems, plant and equipment.
To enable students to utilise appropriate mathematical methods to solve mechanical engineering problems.
Learning Outcomes
1.
Apply the principles of heat transfer, thermodynamics and general engineering to control of the internal environment.
2.
Apply the principles of heat transfer, thermodynamics and general engineering to the selection of sustainable and energy efficient building engineering systems, plant and equipment.
3.
Analyse moderately complex buildings using longhand calculation and estimation methods to evaluate heating loads, cooling loads and energy requirements.
4.
Analyse moderately complex buildings using industry standard software packages to evaluate heating loads, cooling loads and energy requirements.
5.
Utilise appropriate mathematical methods to solve practical mechanical engineering problems.
Module Content
Outline Syllabus:Radiation: Reflectivity, transmissivity, absorptivity, emissivity for different surfaces. Wave characteristics and parameters associated with electromagnetic radiation. Asymmetric radiation and discomfort asymmetry.
Heating and cooling loads: Analysis and longhand calculation of building heating and cooling loads, compliance with legislation and energy efficiency standards. Use of thermal analysis software to determine heating and cooling loads.
Psychrometrics: psychrometric properties of air, psychrometric cycles for heating and cooling processes, evaluation of cooling and heating plant duties.
Thermodynamic properties of fluids; application of the first law of thermodynamics to steady flow and non-flow processes for gases, vapours and liquids.
Thermodynamic cycles: use of T-S and p-H diagrams to show commonly encountered thermodynamic cycles. Performance analysis of practical thermodynamic cycles, comparison with the Carnot cycle.
Thermodynamic processes in refrigeration cycles, heat pumps and heat engines.
Refrigeration: vapour compression and absorption refrigeration cycles, refrigerants, compressors, condensers, evaporators.
Additional Information:This module is designed to run in semester 1 alongside the complementary Electrical Engineering for Buildings module to provide students with the necessary grounding in the underpinning principles of mechanical engineering, heat transfer, thermodynamics and fluid mechanics, so that they may undertake the appropriate Design Project module in semester 2.