4.42
Fundamentals of Energy in Buildings
Fall 2010
Topics
- Introduction, energy
- Energy, work
- Conservation of energy, heat
- Energy conservation
- Water: liquid and vapor
- Water, refrigerants, gases
- Steady state flow
- Heating and cooling systems
- Natural ventilation
- Transients, moist air mixtures
- Psychrometrics
- Applications
- Heat transfer introduction
- Conductive heat transfer, moisture transfer in walls
- Composite walls
- Convection
- Introduction to design project 2: radiation
- Human comfort
- Solar radiation, windows
- Introduction to the second law
- Entropy, cogeneration systems
- Heat pumps, refrigeration cycles
- Tour: Building 68, Koch Biology Building ; and Building N51, MIT Museum and the Digital Design Fabrication Group
Readings
- Levenspiel, Octave. Understanding Engineering Thermo . Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1996. ISBN: 9780135312032.
- McQuiston, Faye, Jerald Parker, and Jeffrey Spitler. Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning Analysis and Design . 6th ed. New York, NY: Wiley, 2004. ISBN: 9780471470151.
- Kreider, Jan, and Ari Rabl. Heating and Cooling of Buildings: Design for Efficiency . New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 1994. ISBN: 9780078347764.
- Moran, Michael, and Howard Shapiro. Fundamentals of Engineering Thermodynamics . 6th ed. New York, NY: Wiley, 2007. ISBN: 9780471787358.
- Incropera, Frank, David DeWitt, Theodore Bergman, and Adrienne Lavine. Introduction to Heat Transfer . 5th ed. New York, NY: Wiley, 2006. ISBN: 9780471457275.
- All chapters in the following table are from the Levenspiel textbook. The notes for Lec #11-22 are not available on MIT OpenCourseWare, except for Lec #15 and 16.
- LEC #: 1 · TOPICS: Introduction, energy · READINGS: Chapter 1, 2A, and 10
- LEC #: 2 · TOPICS: Energy, work · READINGS: Chapter 3A and 4A
- LEC #: 3 · TOPICS: Conservation of energy, heat · READINGS: Chapter 3B and 4B
- LEC #: 4 · TOPICS: Energy conservation · READINGS: Chapter 5A, 6A, and 7
- LEC #: 5 · TOPICS: Water liquid and vapor · READINGS: Chapter 8 and 12B
- LEC #: 6 · TOPICS: Water, refrigerants, gases · READINGS: Chapter 12B-D, 2C, and 11
- LEC #: 7 · TOPICS: Steady state flow · READINGS: Chapter 13
- LEC #: 10 · TOPICS: Transients, moist air mixtures · READINGS: Chapter 14 and 2A
- LEC #: 11 · TOPICS: Psychrometrics · READINGS: Notes
- LEC #: 14 · TOPICS: Applications · READINGS: Notes
- LEC #: 17 · TOPICS: Composite walls · READINGS: Notes
- LEC #: 20 · TOPICS: Human comfort · READINGS: Notes
- LEC #: 22 · TOPICS: Solar radiation, windows · READINGS: Notes
- LEC #: 23 · TOPICS: Introduction to the second law · READINGS: Chapter 15
- LEC #: 24 · TOPICS: Entropy, cogeneration systems · READINGS: Chapter 18A, C-E, and 20A-C
- LEC #: 25 · TOPICS: Heat pumps, refrigeration cycles · READINGS: Chapter 16, 17A, and 20D
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗Historical OpenCourseWare
- MIT OCW calendar ↗
- MIT OCW readings ↗
- MIT OCW syllabus ↗
- Historical MIT OpenCourseWare offering. Named reading entries and schedule topics are automatically extracted from the linked source pages.