| CODE | EVD5104 | ||||||||||||
| TITLE | Ventilation | ||||||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 05 - Postgraduate Modular Diploma or Degree Course | ||||||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 7 | ||||||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 5 | ||||||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Environmental Design | ||||||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This study-unit exposes the students to aspects of Ventilation including: - Drivers of natural ventilation in buildings; - Design aspects of natural ventilation in buildings; - Indoor Air Quality - Contaminants & Odours; Pollution sources and their control; Minimum ventilation rates in habitable spaces; and - Basics of mechanical ventilation including aspects of duct design, principles of space air diffusion and air terminals. Study-unit Aims: The aims of this study-unit are: - To expose the student to the importance and the requirements of ventilation, especially in consideration of breathing zones' ventilation requirements, and as a means of diluting pollutants; - To expose the student to the principles of natural ventilation, its drivers and basic calculation methods in buildings designed to make use of stack and wind induced ventilation; and - To expose the student to the basic terminology, scientific principles and design procedure used to design mechanical ventilation. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Characterize what the main pollutants effecting indoor air quality are, and identify how these may be reduced to an acceptable level; - Calculate and apply the design parameters used in the design of natural ventilation in buildings, both stack and wind induced; and - Calculate and apply the basic design parameters used in the design of mechanical ventilation systems. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Calculate ventilation rates required for different habitable spaces; - Recommend appropriate control systems to remove different types of pollutants; - Design a building with apertures properly sized to take advantage of natural ventilation; and - Design a mechanical ventilation system for a building space. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: Main Texts: Hall F. and Greeno R., Building Services Handbook. Routledge 7th Edition. 2013. ISBN 978-0415631402. Bell Jr. Arthur A., HVAC Equations, Data, and Rules of Thumb. McGraw Hill; 8th Edition. 2015. ISBN 978-0071829595. Fanger, P.O., Thermal Comfort & Engineering. McGraw Hill; 1st Edition. 1973. ISBN 978-0070199156. Thomas R., Environmental Design of Buildings – An Introduction for Architects & Engineers' Taylor & Francis; 3rd Edition. 2006. ISBN 978-0415363334. Awbi H.B., Ventilation of Buildings. Routledge; 2nd Edition. 2003. ISBN 978-0415270564. Supplementary Readings: ASHRAE Handbook of Fundamentals Handbooks (Latest Editions). |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Group Learning, Ind Online Learn, Lect & Tutorial | ||||||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Simon Paul Borg Daniel Micallef |
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