Air conditioning systems; HVAC applications; Basic air conditioning processes; Indoor air quality; Heat transmission in buildings; Solar radiation; Load calculations; Pipes and ducts design; Air distribution; Equipment selection; HVAC control.

 

Forces and moments for planar systems; Basic equilibrium conditions; centroids; friction; area and mass moments of inertia; Kinematics of a particle: rectilinear and curvilinear motion; Kinetics of particles: Newton's law, work and energy; Kinematics of a rigid body in plane motion; Relative velocity and acceleration; Kinetics of a rigid body in plane motion: translation, fixed axis rotation, general motion, work and energy.

First and second law of thermodynamics; Properties of ideal gases and vapor; Carnot cycle; Air standard cycles; Rankine cycle; Reversed Carnot cycle; Vapor compression refrigeration cycle; Introduction to fluid mechanics; Heat transfer modes: conduction, convection and radiation;  Heat exchangers.

Introduction to thermodynamics; Properties of pure substances; Energy transfer by heat, work, and mass; Energy and mass conservation; Entropy and the second law; Gas and vapor power cycles.

Vapor-compression Refrigeration Systems: standard cycle and its modifications, compressors, condensers, evaporators, expansion devices, system analysis and multi-pressure systems; Absorption Refrigeration Systems: Lithium-Bromide systems and Aqua-ammonia systems; Air Conditioning: Psychrometric processes, Air conditioning systems and single-zone system calculations.