Course Details

Management and Control of HVAC

Academic Year 2025/26

NTA038 course is part of 1 study plan

NPC-EVB Winter Semester 1st year

Course Guarantor

Institute

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

5 credits

Semester

winter

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • Introduction, physical laws in electrotechnics and calculations
  • Low-voltage equipment and wiring
  • Basic measurement and control systems
  • Elements and components for control circuits
  • Technical drawings in electrical engineering and light-current distribution
  • Measurement of electrical and non-electric quantities
  • Automation, optimization and propositional logic
  • Regulators and actuators
  • Design of control circuits
  • Superior systems of measurement and regulation, design, utilization
  • Control systems for air handling equipment
  • Control systems for thermal systems
  • Operation and maintenance of ventilation, cooling and heat systems

Exercise

13 weeks, 1 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • Design of power cables, cables and circuit breakers
  • Introduction to regulator programming
  • Measuring and regulating sensors
  • Measuring and regulating actuators
  • Practical examples of wiring of control circuits
  • Independent practice with input and output quantities of control circuits
  • Calculation of uncertainties in the measurement of the practically measured quantities
  • Selection of the controller for the specified number of sensed and control quantities
  • Logic circuits, divisions and applications
  • Control scheme of measurement and control system, drawing
  • Diagram of measurement and control system for ventilation
  • Diagram of measurement system and heating control
  • Final check and credit