The course aims to provide students advanced knowledge in the following topics: - Plant engineering analysis of buildings and related environmental impact - Thermo-hygrometric and environmental comfort evaluations - Energy regulations
At the end of the course, the student will be able to:
- Solve plant engineering problems for buildings
- Correctly calculate thermal bridges of different kinds
Lectures, exercises and educational visits to technical plants.
Students who have valid certification of physical or learning disabilities on file with the University and who wish to discuss possible accommodations or other circumstances regarding lectures, coursework and exams, should speak both with the instructor and with Professor Federico Scarpa (federico.scarpa@unige.it ), the Polytechnic School's disability liaison.
Basics of heat transfer and psychrometrics
Thermohygrometric comfort
Heat pumps and chillers
Air handling units
Boilers and furnaces
District heating and cogeneration
Thermal bridges
Design of heating and cooling loads
Ozone depletion and the greenhouse effect
Handouts and slides provided by the lecturer
Ricevimento: By appointment
DAVIDE BORELLI (President)
LUCA ANTONIO TAGLIAFICO
PAOLO ROSASCO (President Substitute)
https://corsi.unige.it/9914/p/studenti-orario
Oral exam by appointment.
The assessment of the students' understanding of the topics studied will be verified through the language used, the knowledge of the subject and the ability to deepen the covered topics.
Working students and students with SLD, disability or other special educational needs certification are advised to contact the teacher at the beginning of the course to agree on teaching and examination methods that, in compliance with the teaching objectives, take into account individual learning modalities.
