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Course code: OŹES20093o14
Semester: 2014/2015 summer
Name: Intelligent low emission buildings
Major: Renewable Energy and Waste Management
Study Type: second cycle
Course type: compulsory
Study Semester: 1
ECTS points: 3
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 15 / 15 / 0
Lecturer: Dr inż. Arkadiusz Dyjakon
Language of instruction: Polish
English possible

Learning outcomes: Knowledge: He has an extend knowledge in the range of environment protection, energy saving and storage thanks to the improvement of the energetic effectiveness, heat recovery, appropriate selection of materials, systems and heating technologies. R2 OŹE_W9, R2 OŹE_W10 He has a detailed knowledge supported by the strong theoretical basis in the range of design and exploitation of the systems or devices intended for acquisition and utilization of renewable energy sources. R2 OŹE_W12a Skills: Student is able to identify and determine a specificity of engineering tasks, elaborate the documentation related to the engineering task, as well as prepare text containing discussion of the results in the range of low emission buildings. R2OŹE _U03 He is able to solve, based on the standard engineering actions, the exploitation problems related to low emission buildings taking into account the requirements of the environment protection. R2OŹE _U11

Competences: Social competences: Is able to perform detailed analysis of the realized task in view of the proper priorities determination for subjects related to the low emission buildings. R2OŹE _K02

Prerequisites: Thermodynamics, Physics, Acquisition of energy from renewable sources

Course content: Formal and legal aspects, roles and materials in the area of low-emission buildings. Low-emission systems in the energy saving buildings. Heat exchange throughout the compartment and energy balance of the building. Ventilation, recuperation, heat exchangers and low-emission heating. Design of low-emission buildings. Automation in the smart low emission buildings. Economic and environmental aspects in the low emission buildings.

Recommended literature: 1. Gonzalo R., Rainer V.: Passive house design: planning and design of energy-efficient buildings, Walter de Gruyter, 2014. 2. Maclay B.: The new net zero: leading-edge design and construction of homes and buildings for a renewable energy future, Green Publishing Company, 2014. 3. Hootman T.: Net zero energy design: a guide for commercial architecture, Wiley, 2012. 4. Kachadorian J.: The passive solar house, Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 2006. 5. Chiras D.D.: The solar house - solar heating and cooling, Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 2002. 6. Spence W.P., Kultermann E.: Construction Materials, Methods and Techniques: Building for a Sustainable Future (Go Green with Renewable Energy Resources), Cengage Learning (3rd edition), 2010. 7. Prasad D., Snow M.: Designing with Solar Power: A Source Book for Building Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV), Taylor & Francis, 2005. 8. Pachauri R.K.: From Sunlight to Electricity: A Practical Handbook on Solar Photovoltaic Applications, Teri Press, 2012. 9. Wellinger A., Murphy J., Baxter D.: The biogas handbook: Science, production and applications, IEA Bioenergy, 2013 10. Rosillo-Calle F. (ed.), De Groot P., Hemstock S.L.: The Biomass Assessment Handbook, Earthscan UK, 2007 11. Gipe P.: Wind Power, Revised Edition: Renewable Energy for Home, Farm, and Business, Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 2004. 12. Leyland B.: Small Hydroelectric Engineering Practice, CRC Press, 2014. 13. Lawrence E. Jones (ed.): Renewable Energy Integration: Practical Management of Variability, Uncertainty, and Flexibility in Power Grids, Elsevier, 2014. 14. Wengenmayr R., Buhrke T.: Renewable Energy: Sustainable Energy Concepts for the Future, Wiley-VCH Verlag, 2008.

Assessment methods: Assessment of education effects in terms of knowledge: credit of written exam, credit of all tutorials/projects. Assessment of education effects in terms of skills: credit of calculations, projects and/or reports, results analysis and interpretation of collected data, argumentation of selected choices, oral presentation. Assessment of education effects in terms of social competences: individual work, team work, selection of arguments, ecological consciousness, copyrights respect, responsibility for entrusted task, conscientiousness in the preparations for task realization.

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