Course detail
Fundamentals of Indoor Environmental Engineering
FSI-IZR Acad. year: 2025/2026 Winter semester
The course addresses issues concerning indoor environments in buildings, which include human thermal comfort, indoor air quality, ventilation, heating, air conditioning, energy conservation and sustainability.
Language of instruction
Czech
Number of ECTS credits
3
Supervisor
Department
Entry knowledge
Practical knowledge of physics, mathematics and thermodynamics.
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
Two multiple choice tests (in the 7th and 13th teaching week).
Active participation in seminars and passing two tests (in the 7th and 13th teaching week).
Aims
The aim of the course is to acquaint students with technologies for creating healthy and comfortable indoor environments with the focus on minimization of energy consumption.
Students acquire basic knowledge of technologies for creating healthy and comfortable indoor environments in buildings.
The study programmes with the given course
Programme B-ENE-P: Energy, Bachelor's, compulsory
Type of course unit
Lecture
26 hours, optionally
Syllabus
1. Introduction to indoor environmental engineering (outdoor and indoor environment, human thermal comfort).
2. Thermal environment (operative temperature, PMV, PPD, DR, WBGT).
3. Indoor air quality (types of pollutants, health protection, ways of providing required indoor air quality).
4. Building ventilation (natural ventilation, mechanical ventilation, air cleaning).
5. Ventilation technology (air transport and distribution, components of ventilation systems).
6. Energy demand of ventilation, waste heat recovery.
7. Air-conditioning systems (classification, components).
8. Sizing and operation of air-conditioning systems.
9. Space heating in buildings, classification of heating systems.
10. Heat sources and components of space heating systems.
11. Energy performance of buildings and its evaluation, integration of renewable energy sources.
12. Noise and its influence on humans, basics of engineering acoustics, health protection in noisy environments.
13. New trends in indoor environmental engineering.
Exercise
13 hours, compulsory
Syllabus
1. Instruments and techniques for evaluation of thermal environment.
2. Human thermal comfort, thermal comfort diagrams.
3. Indoor air quality, calculation of ventilation rates.
4. Natural ventilation (air flow through ventilation openings and ventilation shafts).
5. Mechanical ventilation, air supply, air jets.
6. Waste heat recovery in ventilation.
7. Educational assessment (multiple choice test).
8. Summer operation of an all-air air-conditioning system.
9. Winter operation of an all-air air-conditioning system.
10. Calculation of design heat load.
11. Evaluation of energy performance of buildings.
12. Noise and engineering acoustics, basic quantities and calculations.
13. Educational assessment (multiple choice test).