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Dec 04, 2024
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ARE 5451 - Design of Mechanical Systems II3 lecture hours 0 lab hours 3 credits
Course Description
This course continues the development of heating and cooling systems design, by applying what has been learned in ARE 3401 - Principles of Mechanical Engineering for Buildings and the Systems-and-Equipment-intensive course ARE 3451 - Design of Mechanical Systems. The course applies a systematic approach to the use of heating and cooling design as required by building simulation software currently used in the industry. A commercial building case study is utilized as a term project. Upon completion of the course, the student will be able to comprehensively design an HVAC system using a building energy simulation program and produce appropriate mechanical drawings. (prereq: ARE 3451) (quarter system prereq: AE 3421)
Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Define all heat gains and losses in a given building, and calculate the total cooling load and heating load of a building
- Identify the fundamental parts of building energy simulation structures and their hierarchies
- Identify the fundamental parts of a mechanical design process and coordinate with the appropriate stakeholders
- Apply the basic principles of fluid mechanics, to calculate pressure losses in ducts and pipes and produce a design
- Design heat exchangers
- Analyze and characterize different cooling equipment systems
- Analyze and characterize different heating equipment systems
- Analyze and characterize different cooling equipment plants
- Analyze and characterize different heating equipment plants
- Compare the ASHRAE Standards to HVAC calculations and design
- Compare the utility rate structures to the building energy consumption and demand
Prerequisites by Topic
Course Topics
- Building energy simulation software structure
- Cooling and heating loads calculations with computer software
- Cooling systems
- Heating systems
- Cooling plants
- Vapor compression refrigeration components
- Heating plants
- Ancillary heating and cooling devices
- Utility (electricity and gas rate) structures
- Duct design
- Ductwork equipment selection
- Pipe design
- Piping equipment selection
- Heat exchangers
- Working drawings
- Building energy simulation modeling with computer software
- Acoustics
- Mechanical specifications
- Construction administration work
Coordinator
David Grassl, P.E.
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