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This course is intended for students who are interested in the field of Building Services. The overall objective of this course is to prepare students for professional practice in the area of mechanical system design to satisfy the requirements for a comfortable, healthy, and productive indoor environment for commercial buildings. The course draws on previous student experiences in physics, thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and heat and mass transfer. Upon completion of the course, students will possess the skills to calculate heating, cooling, and ventilation requirements for buildings, design and evaluate conventional HVAC systems to meet these requirements, and design and evaluate low energy systems for high performance buildings
Washington Accord (V4) Summary of Graduate Attributes attained in this course: WA1 – Engineering Knowledge WA2 – Problem Analysis WA3 – Design/Development of Solutions WA4 – Investigation WA6 – The Engineer and the World WA9 – Communication WA10 – Project Management and FinanceCourse topics with Learning Outcomes (and Washington Accord (WA) and UC Graduate Attributes) identified.1. Psychrometric Analysis and Thermal Comfort 1.1. Understand the nature and behaviour of moist air through: (WA1, WA2) 1.1.1. Acquiring familiarity with the relevant parameters (relative humidity, wet-bulb temperature, etc.) 1.1.2. Determining moist air property values from both fundamental equations and a psychrometric chart 1.2. Use a psychrometric chart in the representation and analysis of heating, cooling, humidifying, dehumidifying and mixing processes involving moist air (WA2, WA3) 1.3. Describe the factors that influence human thermal comfort, the reasons for those influences, and the acceptable limits on the influencing factors (WA3, WA4)2. Heat Transfer in Buildings, and Heating and Cooling of Buildings, Central Plant Systems 2.1. Quantitatively assess the sensible (i.e. temperature-influencing) and latent (i.e. moisture-influencing) contributions to the total heating or cooling load on a building (or space within a building), including allowance for solar gains through both glazed and unglazed components of the building envelope (WA2, WA4)3. Heat and Mass Exchangers, Air and Water Distribution Systems 3.1. Recognise and understand the mechanism of heat and mass transfer, and solve problems in which mass transfer occurs (including situations in which heat transfer is occurring simultaneously) (WA2, WA4)4. HVAC Systems for Commercial Buildings 4.1. Explain the construction, characteristics and limitations of, and undertake the analysis of heat and mass transfer components used in heating and air-conditioning plant (heat exchangers, humidifiers, dehumidifiers, cooling towers) (WA3, WA4) 4.2. Select and size (by analysis, not rules-of-thumb) the air-conditioning components necessary to achieve required thermal comfort under given design conditions (WA3)5. Design and Operation Analysis (professional practice) 5.1. Recognise and quantify the opportunities for energy and cost savings in the design and operation of HVAC plant (WA7, WA11) 5.2. Interpret HVAC-related requirements and produce professional written reports to communicate analyses and recommendations suitable for industrial clients (WA10) (EIE2)
This course will provide students with an opportunity to develop the Graduate Attributes specified below:
Employable, innovative and enterprising
Students will develop key skills and attributes sought by employers that can be used in a range of applications.
UC MECH Students should have passed: ENME215, ENME315, ENME314, EMTH210 ENME201 ENME202 EMTH271 ENME203 ENME207 ENME221Students from other disciplines or other schools should have passed the courses that are covered in undergraduate level: Thermodynamics, Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics.
ENME665
Students must attend one activity from each section.
David Denkenberger
For detailed course, policy, regulatory and integrity information, please refer to the UC web site, or see relevant Course or Department LEARN pages, (which are available to enrolled students).
Domestic fee $1,059.00
International fee $6,000.00
* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.
For further information see Mechanical Engineering .