This is an archived course. A more recent version may be available at ocw.mit.edu.

Readings

Textbook

Amazon logo Levenspiel, Octave. Understanding Engineering Thermo. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1996. ISBN: 9780135312032.

Further Readings

Amazon logo McQuiston, Faye, Jerald Parker, and Jeffrey Spitler. Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning Analysis and Design. 6th ed. New York, NY: Wiley, 2004. ISBN: 9780471470151.

Amazon logo Kreider, Jan, and Ari Rabl. Heating and Cooling of Buildings: Design for Efficiency. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 1994. ISBN: 9780078347764.

Amazon logo Moran, Michael, and Howard Shapiro. Fundamentals of Engineering Thermodynamics. 6th ed. New York, NY: Wiley, 2007. ISBN: 9780471787358.

Amazon logo Incropera, Frank, David DeWitt, Theodore Bergman, and Adrienne Lavine. Introduction to Heat Transfer. 5th ed. New York, NY: Wiley, 2006. ISBN: 9780471457275.

Readings by Session

All chapters in the following table are from the Levenspiel textbook. The notes for lectures 11-21 are not available on MIT OpenCourseWare, other than the following:

  • Air Water Vapor Mixtures: Psychrometrics (PDF)

  • Heat Transfer (PDF)

LEC # TOPICS READINGS
1 Introduction, energy Chapter 1, 2A, and 10
2 Energy, work Chapter 3A and 4A
3 Conservation of energy, heat Chapter 3B and 4B
4 Energy conservation Chapter 5A, 6A, and 7
5 Water liquid and vapor Chapter 8, 12B
6 Water, refrigerants, gases Chapter 12B-D, 2C, and 11
7 Steady state flow Chapter 13
8 Heating and cooling systems  
9 Natural ventilation  
10 Transients, gas mixtures Chapter 14 and 2A
11 Psychrometrics Notes
12 Applications Notes
13 Quiz 1  
14 Heat transfer introduction Notes
15 Conductive heat transfer, moisture transfer in walls Notes
16 Composite walls Notes
17 Convection  
18 Introduction to Design Project 2  
19 Human comfort Notes
20 Quiz 2  
21 Solar radiation Notes
22 Introduction to the Second Law Chapter 15
23 Tour of campus buildings  
24 Design project presentations  
25 Entropy, power cycles Chapter 18A, C-E, and 20A-C
26 Heat pumps, refrigeration cycle Chapter 16, 17A, and 20D