AME442B

Course exposes students to considerations, options and evaluation scenarios facing the practicing engineer related to annual energy consumption and sustainability in operating buildings. A recently constructed building on campus, ENR2, will be modeled and then compared to actual metered energy use. Students will use basic and advanced commercial tools for analysis of annual energy consumption of built space including building load, engineered systems and utility rate modeling and will evaluate options in envelope, building systems and source equipment selection using basic cost metrics and life cycle analysis. Building rating, performance and certification programs will be discussed. Advanced psychrometric and thermodynamic processes including multi-stage adiabatic cooling, absorption cooling, desiccant dehumidification and cooling, hydronic economizers and combined heat and power together with recent trends in HVAC including chilled beam technology will be explored.

017826

Spring