Academic year/semester: 2024/25/2

ECTS Credits: 6

Available for: Only for the faculty’s students

Lecture hours: 2
Seminarium:0
Practice: 0
Laboratory: 0
Consultation: -

Prerequisites: none

Course Leader: Prof. Talamon Attila

Faculty: Ybl Miklós Faculty of Architecture and Civil Engineering, 1146 Budapest, Thököly út 74.

Course Description:
The subject aims tasks and systems of building engineering. Water supply, sewerage, natural gas supply
and heat supply of buildings.
Connecting to external networks, public utilities. Aspects of network design.
Principles of heating, ventilation and air conditioning.
Highly energy efficient buildings and their mechanical systems.
Aim: Presentation of the complex building engineering systems inside the building.

Competences:
able to distribute, share and prioritize architectural or engineering tasks; able to manage working groups and to integrate the input of other related engineering fields taking part in the design process

Topics:
1. week: Introduction: requirements of the semester
2. week: GIS mapping of the micro-regional energy saving and renewable energy utilization
potential of the Hungarian building stock
3. week: Energy policy – Building energy – HVAC
- Trends
- Short, medium and long-term energy policy
Buildings and HVAC systems
4. week: Water supply
- Plumbing
Sewerage
Rainwater, rainwater storage;
5. week:
Gas supply
- Definition
- Indicators
- Outdoor and indoor opportunities and specifications
Comfort parameters
- Overview
- heat demand calculation;
- Outdoor and indoor opportunities and specifications
- Standards
6. week: Heating technology, heating systems
- Types of heating systems;
- Oxygen diffusion and electron affinity;
- Heat emitter
- Heat generator.
7. week: SEMESTER PROJECT SUBMISSION AND CONSULTATION
8. week: Heat pumps
- Difference between heat exchangers and heat pumps
- Horizontal, vertical geothermal heat pump;
- Types of water source heat pumps;
- Types of air source heat pumps (outdoor, indoor);
- Waste energy source heat pumps
9. week: Ventilation systems
- Determination of the amount of ventilated air;
- Heat and moisture content of the air;
- Recuperators: Installation and necessity of active and passive recuperators
10. week: Nearly zero energy buildings and HVAC systems
- Passive house
- Active house
- nZEB
- ZEB
11. week: Utilization of solar energy
- Types of solar collectors;
- Hot water production with solar collector;
- Electricity generation with solar panels.
Utilization of wind energy
- Horizontal
- Vertical
Utilization of biomass
- heating
- domestic hot water
- District heating
12. week: END-OF-SEMESTER DISSERTATION
13. week LATE END-OF-SEMESTER DISSERTATION

Assessment: End-of-semester dissertation and semester project

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