Environmental Applied
Physics
(English Course)
School of Architecture - Parma
Summary of the page:
- Course
Contents
- Timetable
(academic year 19/20)
- Office Hours
- Exams
- Communications
- Link
- Written reports
- Didactic Material
Aims of the Course
This course provides the skills related
to the energy efficiency of buildings, the application of renewable energy
technologies (solar, geothermal, ...) integrated in the building and knowledge
of systems and their performances in terms of energy efficiency. The Course
will deal with Indoor Air Quality, Thermal Comfort, Lighting and Acoustics in
the buildings.
Elements of Psychrometry and heat
transfer
Recalls on Thermodynamics. Ideal gas equation.
Saturated vapours. Air and vapour mixtures. Description of air and vapour
mixtures. Psychrometric transformations. Measurement of relative humidity. Heat
transfer Conduction. Fourier law. Fourier equation. Steady state solutions.
Electric analogy and its limits. Materials for the thermal insulation.
Convection. Coefficient of convection. Dimensional analysis and similarity.
Forced, natural and mixed convection. Radiation. Basic definitions. Laws of
Stefan-Boltzmann. Combined heat transfer. Global coefficient of heat transfer.
Elements of building physics.
Environmental conditions. Environmental conditions weather, climate, and solar
energy. Heating Degree Days. Weather file variability Climate Zones
Based on TMY. Wind and building orientation. Glaser theory.
Elements of Indoor Air and Thermal
Comfort
Principles of thermal comfort. The
thermal comfort equation. The theory of Fanger. PMV and PPD. Olf and Decipol;
IAQ and PPD.
Elements of Lighting
Principles of lightings. Indoor
lighting. Natural and artificial lighting.
Elements of building and room acoustics
Suggested textbooks
·
J.F. Straube, and E.F.P. Burnett, Building Science for Building Enclosures,
Building Science, Press Inc., Westford, MA, USA, 2005
·
N.B. Hutcheon and G.O.P. Handegord, Building Science for a Cold Climate,
National Research, Council of Canada, Ottawa, 1995
·
U. Berardi, Sustainability Assessments of Buildings, MDPI http://www.mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/471
(free downloadable)
·
edited by Jan L.M. Hensen and Roberto Lamberts, Building performance simulation
for design and operation, London: Spon, 2011, ISBN 9780415474146
· Clarke J.A., Energy simulation in building design - 2. Ed, Oxford: Butterworth Heinemann, 2001, ISBN0750650826
· L. Tronchin, Elementi di Fisica Tecnica e Controllo Ambientale, Ed. Esculapio, 2010 (in Italian)
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Week Day |
Hour |
Room |
Note |
|
Friday |
10.30-13.30 |
B |
Parco
Area delle Scienze 69/A |
|
Friday |
14.30-16.30 |
B |
Parco
Area delle Scienze 69/A |
Oral and written exam.
The students are
requested to prepare a short oral communication (in PPT) about each module,
that will be discussed during the Course, for a total of 4 short
communications.
Moreover, each student
is requested to prepare a written report about one of the 4 modules. This
written report must be prepared following the templated provided to the
students and must be sent by email in DOC format within July.
No further exams are
requested. Each short communication will be responsible of the 15% of the final
grade. The written report will be responsible of the 40% of
the final grade.
(written on 5-3-2018)
The template for the written
communication is available at this
link
The material used
during the lectures is available at this link (first module)
The material used
during the lectures is available at this link (second module)
The material used
during the lectures is available at this link (third module)
The material used
during the lectures is available at this link (fourth module)
The material
regarding the measurements conducted in “Aula B” is available at this link
The passwords will be
communicated on request by each student
(written the 5-3-2018)
(written the 12-3-2018)
(written the 13-4-2018)
(written the 30-4-2018)
(written the 11-5-2018)
(written the 25-5-2018)
(written the 7-7-2019)
The Department of
Engineering and Architecture