NPTEL Syllabus

Air Conditioning and Ventilation -

Web course

COURSE OUTLINE

1. Fundamentals - Air properties, psychometry,

processes, and summer and winter air conditioning.
basic
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2. Comfort - Concept of human comfort and thermal response,
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comfort factors and environmental indices, IAQ.

3. Equipment analysis and selection - Filter, fan, Air washer, Mechanical Engineering
cooling tower and cooling and dehumidifying coil.

4. Load estimation - Heat and mass Transfer in wall, insulation,

vapour barrier, and cooling and heating load calculations.
5. Air distribution - Air flow in duct, duct sizing and space air
diffusion.
6. Ventilation - methods, applications in industries, exhaust
systems and design.
Additional Reading:
1. ASHRAE Handbook – HVAC Applications,
American Society of Heating, Refrigerating
and Air-Conditioning Engineers Inc., Atlanta,
USA, 2007.

2. ASHRAE Handbook – HVAC Systems and

Equiplents, American Society of Heating,
COURSE DETAIL Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers
Inc., Atlanta, USA, 2008.

3. Haines, W.R. and Wilson, C.L., HVAC

Number Systems Design Handbook, McGraw Hill, 2nd
S.No Topics and contents of Ed., New Delhi, 1994.
Lectures
4. Legg, R.C., Air Conditioning Systems -
Design, Commissioning and maintenance,
1 In tro d u c tio n - Purpose, applications, 1 Batsford Ltd, London 1991.
definition and components of air conditioning
- Need and methods of ventilation - Course 5. Abrams, D. W., Low Energy Cooling – A guide
outline. to the practical application of passive cooling
and cooling energy conservation measures,
Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, New York,
1985.
2 Psychrometry - Evolution of air properties 3
and psychrometric chart - Basic processes 6. McQuiston, F.C., Parker, J.D. and Spitler, J.D.
s u c h as sensible heating/cooling, Heating, Ventilating and Air Conditioning,
humidification/dehumidification and their John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2001.
combinations, steam and adiabatic
humidification, adiabatic mixing, etc. -
Bypass factor and Sensible heat ratio. Hyperlinks:

1. http://www.nptel.iitm.ac.in/courses/Webcourse-
Summer and Winter AC - Simple summer
3 3 contents/IIT Kharagpur/Ref and Air
AC process, Room sensible heat factor, Coil
Cond/New_index1.html
sensible heat factor, ADP - Precision AC -
Winter AC.
2. http://www.nptel.iitm.ac.in/video.php?
Human Comfort - Heat transfer from body, courseId=1025
4 convection, radiation, conduction, 4
evaporation, clothing resistance, activity
Coordinators:
level - Concept of human comfort - Thermal
response - comfort factors - Environmental Prof. M. Prakash Maiya
indices - Indoor air quality. Department of Mechanical EngineeringIIT Madras
AC Equipments - Filters, types, efficiency -
5 Fans basic equations, parallel and series 5
configurations - Air washer, adiabatic,
 heated and cooled - Cooling tower, enthalpy
potential, types, tower efficiency, NTU and
characteristics, sizing and off design
performance - Cooling and dehumidifying
coil, dry and wet, sizing, performance.
Heat Transfer - Heat transfer in wall and
6 roof, sol-air temperature, insulation, cooling 3
load temperature difference - Fenestration,
types of glass, sun shade, shading
coefficient, maximum radiation, cooling load
factor.

7 Cooling Load Estimation - Design 3

conditions, outdoor, indoor - External load,
wall, roof, glass - Internal load, occupancy,
lighting, equipments - Ventilation, air
quantity, loads - Load estimation methods.

8 Heating load estimation - Vapour transfer 2

in wall, vapour barrier, load estimation
basics.

9 Air Distribution - Ducts, types, fittings, air 4

flow, friction chart, methods of sizing,
balancing.

10 Air Diffusion - Isothermal jet, throw, drop, 3

types of outlets, ADPI, outlet/inlet selection.

11 Basics of Ventilation - Need, threshold 2

limits of contaminants, estimation of
ventilation rates, decay equation, air flow
round buildings.

12 Methods of Ventilation - Natural, wind 4

effect, stack effect, combined effect -
Mechanical, forced, exhaust, combined -
Displacement ventilation

13 Industrial Ventilation - Steel plants, car 2

parks, plant rooms, mines, etc.

14 Ventilation System Design - Exhaust ducts, 4

filters, blowers, hoods, chimney, etc.

Total number of lectures 43

References:

1. ASHRAE Handbook - Fundamentals, American Society of

Heating, Refrigerating and Air - Conditioning Engineers Inc.,
Atlanta, USA, 2009.

2. Threlkeld, J.L., Thermal Environmental Engineering, Prentice

Hall, New Jersey, 1962.

3. Croome, D.J. and Roberts, B.M., Air conditioning and

 ventilation of buildings, Pergamon.

4. Stoecker, W.F., and Jones, J.W., Refrigeration and Air

Conditioning, 2nd Edition, Tata McGraw Hill, New Delhi 1982.

5. Arora, C.P., Refrigeration and Air Conditioning, Tata-McGraw-

Hill, New Delhi, 2003.

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