
Explore hap interface: title bar, toolbar, help, and project controls for new, save, archive, retrieve; configure weather, space data, and wall, roof, window, door details for heat-load calculations.
Learn to set weather design parameter inputs for hvac load calculations by selecting Oman, Muscat, and adjusting design temperatures, design solar, and simulation data.
Configure design simulation inputs for hvac load calculations by selecting locations such as Muscat, Oman; set holidays by building type; generate design temperature profiles and weather reports.
Identify Muscat's precise weather data using climatic design conditions, extract latitude, longitude, and elevation, and determine cooling and heating loads with max dry and wet bulb temperatures and psychrometric calculations.
Explain how to create schedules and hourly profiles for heat load calculations, setting inputs for people, lighting, and other loads, and mapping weekdays, holidays, and office hours.
Define external, partition, and internal wall assemblies and their layers to assess heat transfer in hvac load calculations, including materials, thickness, and resistance, and derive the u-value.
Define roof, ceiling, and floor concepts and explain how insulation, thickness, and conditioned versus unconditioned spaces drive heat flow.
Define and document window details for hvac heat load calculations by naming windows, entering height, width, frame type, glazing, air gap, and viewing input reports.
Discover how to define exterior shade in the project, including rival depth, overhang, left and right fins, projection from the wall, height above the window, and extensions past sides.
Learn to input general space data for a switchgear room in a substation, computing area and effective area, elevations, and outdoor ventilation for accurate hvac loads.
Explain sizing internal loads for hvac heat calculations, covering overhead lighting types, lighting power density, ballast factors, electrical equipment heat, occupancy schedules, and ashrae ventilation inputs.
Explain slab floor on grade vs below grade, how heat can enter through edges, and how to calculate floor area, exposed perimeter, insulation depth and R value for heat load.
Welcome to our Step-by-Step Guide for Heat Load Calculation by using Hourly Analysis Program (HAP). This software is widely used to design HVAC systems in various industries. This unique online comprehensive course is designed to provide you the best and simplest way to learn heat load calculation for HVAC system. Moreover, it is represented with practical examples and explained each term to understand the software very easily. All the theories are included to avert any kind of distraction from the course.
Let's see what you will get from this course:
1) Section 1: Introduction
A Brief Introduction to HAP
Route map to Our Learning
How to install the software
2) Section 2: Weather Data & Properties
Weather Design Parameter Inputs
Design Simulation Inputs
Actual Weather Data Inputs
3) Section 3: Create Schedule
Schedule for People
Schedule for Lights & Fan
4) Section 4: Defining Wall & Partitions & Inputs
Concept of U Factor or Overall Heat Transfer Coefficient
How to Define Walls?
How to Define Partitions?
5) Section 5: Defining Roof, Ceiling, Floor & Inputs
Introduction to Roof, Ceiling & Floor with Heat Flow
How to Define Roof?
How to Define Ceiling
How to Define Floor?
6) Section 6: Defining Windows, Doors & Inputs
How to Define Windows?
How to Define Doors?
7) Section 7: Defining Shades & Inputs
Introduction to Shades
How to Define Shades?
8) Section 8: Space Inputs & Properties
How to input for General?
How to input for Internals?
How to input for Walls, Windows, and doors?
How to input for Roofs & Skylights?
How to input for Infiltration?
How to input for Floors above Conditioned and unconditioned Space?
How to input for Slab Floors on Grade & Below Grade?
How to input for Partitions?
How to Get Space Input Data Reports?
9) Section 9: System Inputs & Properties
How to inputs for General?
How to input for system components?
How to input for zone components?
How to input for sizing data & equipment?
System input reports
System Design Reports
10) Section 10: Practical Project HAP Calculation Example & Explanation
Project Details, Drawings & Documents
Practical project HAP Weather Inputs
Practical project HAP Schedules & U Factors
Practical project HAP Space & System Inputs
Practical project HAP Outputs
Practical Drawings & Models
Conclusion
The practical example is included at the end of this course in such a way that you will learn how to do heat load calculation in various industries which will enhance your skills, make you very confident, and help your professional growth by using HAP software in any kind of HVAC project.