Psychrometry and Air Conditioning systems

🌡️ Master the Art of Air Conditioning System Design with Psychrometry 🎓

Course Title:

Psychrometry and Air Conditioning System Design

Course Headline:

Unlock the Secrets of Climate Control! 🏚️❄️

Course Description:

Are you an Undergraduate Mechanical Engineering Student or a Practicing HVAC Engineer looking to sharpen your skills in air conditioning systems? This comprehensive course is tailored just for you! Dive into the fascinating world of Psychrometry and emerge with the ability to design and size air conditioners specifically for your application.

• 📚 Understand and Calculate Air Properties: Master the essentials of psychometric charts, specific heat ratio, moisture content, enthalpy, and entropy.
• 🏗️ Explore Air Conditioning System Types: Discover the ins and outs of various AC systems, from all-air to all-water and hybrid systems.
• ⚙️ Sizing of Air Conditioners: Learn precise sizing techniques that move beyond rule-of-thumb methods, ensuring your systems are optimized for efficiency and performance.

Course Structure:

1. Psychrometry Basics: Get to grips with the foundational concepts of psychrometry, including processes like BPF of coil, ADP, adiabatic mixing, and different types of heat pumps (SHF, RSHF, GSHF, ESHF). Learn how to calculate factors contributing to cooling load through numerical methods and load analysis.

2. Air Conditioning Systems: Explore the intricacies of various air conditioning systems, including summer, winter, and all-year-round systems. Delve into different configurations such as all-air systems, all-water systems, air-water systems, variable refrigerant flow (VRF) systems, and variable air volume (VAV) systems. Gain insights into unitary and central AC systems.

Content Overview:

Psychrometry:

• Basic Psychrometry and processes
• BPF of coil, ADP, adiabatic mixing of two air streams
• Sensible Heat (SHF), Latent Heat (LSHF), Gross Sensible Heat (GSHF), External Sensible Heat (ESHF)
• Factors contributing to cooling load with a focus on numerical based on load analysis

Air Conditioning Systems:

• Working principles of summer, winter, and all-year-round AC systems
• Understanding all-air system, all-water system, air-water system configurations
• Exploring VRF and VAV systems
• Examining unitary and central air conditioning applications

References:

1. Dossat Ray J, "Principles of Refrigeration," S.I. version, Willey Eastern Ltd, 2000
2. Stockers W.F and Jones J.W., "Refrigeration and Air Conditioning," McGraw Hill International editions, 1982.
3. Threlkeld J.L, "Thermal Environmental Engineering," Prentice Hall Inc., New Delhi.
4. Aanatnarayan, "Basics of Refrigeration and Air Conditioning," Tata McGraw Hill Publications.
5. Roger Legg, "Air Conditioning System Design, Commissioning and Maintenance"
6. ASHRAE & ISHRAE handbook

Join us on this educational journey to conquer the principles of air conditioning design. Whether you're a student eager to learn or an engineer striving for precision, this course will equip you with the knowledge and skills necessary to excel in the field of HVAC engineering. 🏗️☀️✨