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Energy Savings and Thermal Comfort in Buildings

Prof. G.V. Fracastoro (lectures and exercises)
Collaboration: prof. Paolo Tronville, ing. Marco Simonetti, Ms. Antonina Crin
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Energy demand of a building - heating conditions. Components of

energy balance: transmission and ventilation losses; internal and solar
gains. Climate data (temperature, solar radiation,..) and parameters:
04-ott degree-days.
03-ott

07-ott

Existing standards and Energy policies in the buildings area. The

EPBD. EPBD recast. Near zero energy buildings. National regulations:
DL 311/06. Energy Performance and certification. UNI/TS 11300,
11-ott regional certification laws.
13-ott

18-ott

Indoor environment: thermal comfort. Human body balance. PMV

and PPD indices. Local discomfort. ISO 7730.

20-ott

Indoor Air Quality (IAQ). Perceived air quality. CO2 concentrations.

Contaminants. Sources of pollution. Emission rates. Control by dilution
and removal. Ventilation strategies (mixing, displacement). Heat
25-ott recovery systems
27-ott

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24-ott
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17-ott

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10-ott

class

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31-ott Energy demand of a building - cooling conditions. Latent heat

gains. Dynamic factors. Simplified methods for air conditioning energy
03-nov calculations

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07-nov

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6 08-nov

Air conditioning load calculation. Hour by hour dynamic calculation

methods.

10-nov

17-nov

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21-nov Audit and monitoring of existing buildings. Benchmark definition.

Field monitoring of building components and installations. Main data to
8 22-nov be collected. Sensors and measuring apparatus.

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Numerical application

14-nov Energy efficient new buildings, complying with new standards and
regulations.Integration of RES towards a Net Zero Energy Building
7 15-nov (NZEB)

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24-nov

Numerical application

28-nov Building Retrofits. Actions on building envelope and on mechanical

systems. Economic and environmental evaluation of retrofit actions.
9 29-nov Ranking of solutions.
01-dic

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05-dic Energy balance of a city. Main factors: natural energy flows and
human-related energy flows. The Urban Heat Island effect. Causes
10 06-dic and remedies.
08-dic

District heating/cooling networks. Networks systems: technologies

and costs. The district heating system of Torino. Concept of "smart
thermal grids": district cooling; waste heat from industries; storage
11 13-dic
systems for peak shaving.
15-dic

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12-dic

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Christmas Holidays
09-gen Retrofit of buildings at the urban level. Reading a large-scale
energy balance. Disaggregation of the demand. Statistical information.
12 10-gen The methodology for ranking the actions.
12-gen
16-gen
13 17-gen

14 24-gen

13B

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Integration of renewable energies in cities. Solar, geothermal and
biomass. Ground-coupled heat pumps. Analysis of pros and cons.

19-gen
23-gen

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Visit to district heating facilities

The Smartcities project.
Lighting systems

26-gen

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