About the laboratory
Sub-area "Physical Building Models"
Courses
Practical courses
- Building Physics for the Energy and Building Technology programme
- Fluid mechanics experiments for the degree programmes Energy and Building Technology, Mechatronics and the Master's degree programme Engineering Sciences
- Heat transfer experiments for the degree programmes Mechanical Engineering and Mechatronics
Equipment
- Two controllable thermal model houses
- Heat exchanger trainer
- Fluid mechanics experiments:
- Bernoulli effect
- Centrifugal pump
- Jet forces
- Francis turbine
- Reynolds experiment
- Streamlines
- Pressure loss through butterfly valve
Development work / research projects
- Various project and bachelor theses in the field of
Sub-area "Building Automation"
Courses
- Building automation internship for the Energy and Building Technology degree programme
- Demonstration set-ups as part of the lecture "Building Automation" courses of study Energy and Building Technology, Interior Construction, Timber Construction and Finishing and Wood Technology
- Bachelor's and Master's theses in the subject areas of building automation
Equipment
- DALI demo setup
- Demo set-up with different impulse and MBus meters for electrical and thermal energy (electricity and heat meters) as well as hydraulic volumes (water meters)
- Digital current demo set-up
- KNX demo set-up (incl. DALI and EnOcean components)
- LON demo setup (incl. DALI and EnOcean components)
- Loxone server demo setup (incl. EnOcean components)
- Siemens DDC demo setup
- WAGO FlexRoom demo setup
- WAGO IO system demo setup - incl. DALI and EnOcean components as well as coupling options to KNX, LON, MBus and RS485)