Modern Air Conditioning: Engineering Principles and Applications
- Course Number: M1035
- Credits: 3 hours
- Instructor: Ellen C. Huang, PE
- Price: $30
Course Outline
Willis Haviland Carrier transformed air conditioning from a largely empirical cooling practice into a disciplined branch of engineering. His work integrated temperature, humidity, airflow, and air cleanliness; established practical psychrometric methods for analyzing moist air; and helped make controlled indoor environments feasible on a building-wide scale.
Using Carrier's career as a framework, this course examines psychrometrics, heat and moisture transfer, vapor-compression refrigeration, cooling and dehumidifying coils, load estimation, air distribution, ventilation, thermal comfort, controls, energy performance, commissioning, refrigerant stewardship, and resilient HVAC operation. The course connects historical developments with current HVAC design and operational practices. A multiple-choice quiz reinforces the course material.
Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of this course, the student will:
- Describe Willis Carrier's principal contributions to air-conditioning science, equipment, and industry development.
- Apply fundamental psychrometric relationships to sensible cooling, dehumidification, heating, humidification, and air-mixing processes.
- Explain how refrigeration equipment, cooling coils, air distribution, ventilation, load calculations, and controls interact in an HVAC system.
- Evaluate modern air-conditioning strategies with respect to comfort, indoor air quality, energy efficiency, commissioning, refrigerant stewardship, resilience, and professional responsibility.
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