COURSE UNIT TITLE

: THERMAL COMFORT AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
MEE 5092 THERMAL COMFORT AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL ELECTIVE 3 0 0 7

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR AYÇA TOKUÇ

Offered to

THERMODYNAMICS
THERMODYNAMICS
THERMODYNAMICS

Course Objective

Assıgnment done by students regularly and the problem solving in the classroom provides learning lectures.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Ability the understand the principal of heating, ventilating, refrigeration, and air-conditioning systems.
2   Ability to calculate heat gain or heat loss of buildings.
3   Ability to design a heating, refrigerating and air-conditioning system for various applications.
4   Ability to calculate energy efficiency and energy consumption of the systems.
5   Ability to make technical drawing of the systems.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Units,Introduction of heat energy, insulatıon materials, requıred amount of heat energy to cool air, water , foods, thermodynamic properties of air
2 Calculation of heat gain and heat loss for buildings
3 Calculation of heat gain and heat loss for buildings.
4 Working principal , components design and flow chart for Central air- volume Air -Conditioning system
5 Working principal, components design and flow chart for Central Air Volume Air Condit,ioning system.
6 Working Principal of a Hidronic system and capacity of its components
7 Midterm Exam.
8 Air quality and Indoor air quality , meanings , criteria , applications , precautions
9 Freon gas -based Air -Conditioning System and heat pumps.
10 Freon gas -based air-conditioning system and heat pumps.
11 Ventilating system and Indoor air quality.
12 Trouble -shooting and maintenance for the Air-Conditioning Systems.

Recomended or Required Reading

1. Air Quality / Sixth Ed. By / Wayne T. Davis , Joshua S. Fu , Thad Godish , ISBN 9780367860929 , Publ. 2021

2. Indoor Air Quality , By / Katleen Hess-Kosa , ISBN 9781138306615 , Publ. 2018

3. HVAC Engineer's Handbook , By / F.Porges. , ISBN 9780367578886 , Publ. 2020.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

assignment done by students regularly and problem solving in the classroom provides learning lectures.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.30 +ASG * 0.20 +FIN * 0.50
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.30 + ASG * 0.20 + RST * 0.50


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

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Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

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Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Asst.Prof.Dr Ibrahim Ucsular
3012575

Office Hours

Tuesday at 15 pm

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparing assignments 2 20 40
Preparing presentations 2 20 40
Project Preparation 1 25 25
Preparation for tutorial exam 1 25 25
Midterm 1 1 1
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 175

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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