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Jan 02, 2025
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HVAC 1020 - Load Calculating Credits: 2 Hours/Week: Lecture None Lab None Course Description: In this course, students will study the psychrometric chart and its uses in determining a proper residential heating and cooling load. Topics include properties of air and air measurements. Students must be able to perform physical tasks to complete course requirements. MnTC Goals None
Prerequisite(s): None Corequisite(s): None Recommendation: None
Major Content
- Air distribution systems
- Cooling load estimating
- Dry-bulb and wet-bulb temperatures
- Heat load estimating
- Humidity
- Reading a psychrometric chart
- Total heat
Learning Outcomes At the end of this course students will be able to:
- define psychrometrics.
- define the terms: dry-bulb temperature and wet-bulb temperatures, relative humidity, specific humidity, grains of moisture and dew point temperature
- determine air conditions using a psychrometric chart
- calculate heat gain and heat loss
- analyze various air distribution systems.
- perform a load calculation
Minnesota Transfer Curriculum (MnTC): Goals and Competencies Competency Goals (MnTC Goals 1-6) None Theme Goals (MnTC Goals 7-10) None
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