ENME465-25S1 (C) Semester One 2025

Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) Engineering

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 17 February 2025
End Date: Sunday, 22 June 2025
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 2 March 2025
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 11 May 2025

Description

This course is intended for students who are interested in the field of Building Services. The overall objective of this course is to prepare students for professional practice in the area of mechanical system design to satisfy the requirements for a comfortable, healthy, and productive indoor environment for commercial buildings. The course draws on previous student experiences in physics, thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and heat and mass transfer. Upon completion of the course, students will possess the skills to calculate heating, cooling, and ventilation requirements for buildings, design and evaluate conventional HVAC systems to meet these requirements, and design and evaluate low energy systems for high performance buildings

Learning Outcomes

  • Washington Accord (V4) Summary of Graduate Attributes attained in this course:
     WA1 – Engineering Knowledge
     WA2 – Problem Analysis
     WA3 – Design/Development of Solutions
     WA4 – Investigation
     WA6 – The Engineer and the World
     WA9 – Communication
     WA10 – Project Management and Finance

  • Course topics with Learning Outcomes (and Washington Accord (WA) and UC Graduate Attributes) identified.

    1. Psychrometric Analysis and Thermal Comfort
           1.1. Understand the nature and behaviour of moist air through: (WA1, WA2)
                   1.1.1. Acquiring familiarity with the relevant parameters (relative humidity, wet-bulb temperature, etc.)
                   1.1.2. Determining moist air property values from both fundamental equations and a psychrometric chart
           1.2. Use a psychrometric chart in the representation and analysis of heating, cooling, humidifying, dehumidifying and mixing processes involving moist air (WA2, WA3)
           1.3. Describe the factors that influence human thermal comfort, the reasons for those influences, and the acceptable limits on the influencing factors (WA3, WA4)
    2. Heat Transfer in Buildings, and Heating and Cooling of Buildings, Central Plant Systems
           2.1. Quantitatively assess the sensible (i.e. temperature-influencing) and latent (i.e. moisture-influencing) contributions to the total heating or cooling load on a building (or space within a building), including allowance for solar gains through both glazed and unglazed components of the building envelope (WA2, WA4)
    3. Heat and Mass Exchangers, Air and Water Distribution Systems
           3.1. Recognise and understand the mechanism of heat and mass transfer, and solve problems in which mass transfer occurs (including situations in which heat transfer is occurring simultaneously) (WA2, WA4)
    4. HVAC Systems for Commercial Buildings
           4.1. Explain the construction, characteristics and limitations of, and undertake the analysis of heat and mass transfer components used in heating and air-conditioning plant (heat exchangers, humidifiers, dehumidifiers, cooling towers) (WA3, WA4)
           4.2. Select and size (by analysis, not rules-of-thumb) the air-conditioning components necessary to achieve required thermal comfort under given design conditions (WA3)
    5. Design and Operation Analysis (professional practice)
           5.1. Recognise and quantify the opportunities for energy and cost savings in the design and operation of HVAC plant (WA7, WA11)
           5.2. Interpret HVAC-related requirements and produce professional written reports to communicate analyses and recommendations suitable for industrial clients (WA10) (EIE2)
    • University Graduate Attributes

      This course will provide students with an opportunity to develop the Graduate Attributes specified below:

      Employable, innovative and enterprising

      Students will develop key skills and attributes sought by employers that can be used in a range of applications.

Prerequisites

UC MECH Students should have passed: ENME215, ENME315, ENME314, EMTH210 ENME201 ENME202 EMTH271 ENME203 ENME207 ENME221
Students from other disciplines or other schools should have passed the courses that are covered in undergraduate level: Thermodynamics, Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics.

Restrictions

ENME665

Timetable 2025

Students must attend one activity from each section.

Lecture A
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Tuesday 14:00 - 15:00 A8 Lecture Theatre
17 Feb - 6 Apr
28 Apr - 1 Jun
Lecture B
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Wednesday 13:00 - 14:00 A8 Lecture Theatre
17 Feb - 6 Apr
28 Apr - 1 Jun
Lecture C
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Monday 17:00 - 18:00 A9 Lecture Theatre
17 Feb - 9 Mar
17 Mar - 6 Apr
28 Apr - 4 May
12 May - 1 Jun

Course Coordinator

David Denkenberger

Lecturer

David Denkenberger

Notes

For detailed course, policy, regulatory and integrity information, please refer to the UC web site, or see relevant Course or Department LEARN pages, (which are available to enrolled students).

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,122.00

International fee $6,238.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Mechanical Engineering .

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