Abstract:

Concept of smart city means that the majority of the buildings in it have to meet certain standards. The basic standard of the building's energy efficiency considers how much heating (cooling) energy building loses through its envelope during the year. It is important to assess this amount of energy not only for standardization but for the probable future renovation of the building.

During the first part of the present course students will become acquainted with standard and newest methods of the energy-efficiency assessment. The focus in the beginning will be set on the basic heat-exchange principals in the building and slowly changed to the common questions of the energy-efficiency. On the first step of the building's renovation it is common to apply low-cost measures to the building with minimal payback period. This also applies to the new buildings. Such measures consider the improvement in the management of the heating&cooling system. It can be saved up to 15 % of the consumed energy without losing the comfort of the inhabitants.

In the second part of the present course common approaches of the heating systems' management will be discussed. Knowledge gained by the students during the first part of the course will be extended - students will learn how to make simple mathematical thermal models of the building for the analysis and forecast.

Course prerequisites: Basic physics, desire to explore and discover.

Topics of the course with a brief classification:

• Energy-efficiency of the buildings - standards and new methods
  • ISO-method
  • Co-heating method
  • QUB method and other developments
• Management of the building heating systems
  • Stochastic concepts
  • Models in lumped parameters
  • Self-studied algorithms
• Management of the local district heating systems
  • Stochastic concepts
  • Genetic algorithms

About lecturer:

Mr. Andrii Zakovorotnyi,
Institute of Engineering Thermophysics, NAS of Ukraine.