Energy and Building Services Engineering Laboratories

Room: G 0.08

Head of Laboratory: Prof. Dr. Christian Schweigler (Dr. rer. nat.)

Laboratory Engineer: Christian Allmanshofer

Facilities:

• Thermal test benches with hot, chilled and cold water supplies

Research and Development:

• Compression refrigeration system as a test bench for turbo compressors using water as the refrigerant
• Hybrid absorption/compression refrigeration machine or heat pump for utilising low-temperature heat as a driving source, suitable for dry recooling or as a heat pump with an increased temperature difference
• Heat pump air-conditioning system with latent heat storage for flexible heating and cooling

Measurement Technology Internship:

• Gas-fired adsorption heat pump for building heating
• Organic Rankine cycle
• Demonstration and experimental facility

Laboratory for Measurement, Control and Regulation Technology

Room: G 0.09

Head of Laboratory: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Helmuth Mühlbacher

Workshop Foreman: Ulf Martienßen

Facilities:

• Demonstration panels for KNX bus and hydraulic circuits in heating technology; demonstration systems for DDC (Johnson Controls), EIB, PLC (PLC7, Siemens); PC workstations for regulation and control technology; simulation (MATLAB, SIMULINK, hardware-in-the-loop); PC-based measurement data acquisition (LABVIEW, National Instruments)

Research & Development:

• Development of simulation tools for building services systems using MATLAB and SIMULINK; analysis of faults in building services systems; aerodynamics; design and automation of wind turbines; use of engineering mathematics programming tools (MATHEMATIKA, MAPLE); modelling using finite element methods (ANSYSED)

Measurement Technology Internship:

• Linear and non-linear component characteristics, measurements in direct current circuits, phase shift, resonance, measurements in alternating current circuits, heating hydraulics: simulation and optimisation of a room heating control loop, solar cell optocoupler

Plant Engineering Practical Course:

• Building automation – KNX bus, simulation and optimisation of a cascade control system, space heating – modelling and simulation

Room: G 0.10

Head of Laboratory: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Roland Kraus

Laboratory Engineer: Uwe Winkler, Dipl. Ing.

Workshop foreman: Ulf Martienßen

Facilities:

• Hydraulic Networks and Circuits Test Bench,
• Test rig: hydraulic balancing, control valves, differential pressure regulators, flow regulators
• Test rig for pump performance curves, primary circuit pumps, consumer circuit pumps, Wilo-Geniax ®
• Valve characteristic curve test rig
• Underfloor heating demonstration stand
• Test rig for determining the calorific value of substances

Measurement Technology Internship:

• Hydraulic circuits
• Determination of calorific value

Plant Engineering Practical Course:

• Hydraulic balancing
• Steam power station (in collaboration with Regensburg University of Applied Sciences)

Room: G 0.13

Head of Laboratory: Prof. Thilo Ebert

The Laboratory for Control Engineering and Building Automation is dedicated to practice-oriented teaching in the field of building services automation. Various experimental and training set-ups, as well as computer workstations, are available for this purpose. The facilities enable internships and courses to be held on a range of topics relating to building automation and control engineering.

Laboratory equipment:

• ten computer workstations for students and one for a lecturer
• Presentation and media technology
• Prototype of a partial and full air-conditioning system
• Testing and training centre for building automation
• Hardware-in-the-Loop models

Laboratory-based internships:

• Building automation in ventilation technology
• Analysis and optimisation of the control behaviour of RTL systems
• Cost planning
• Scheduling

Room: G 0.14

Head of Laboratory: Prof. Werner Schenk , Prof. Dr. Martin Renner ,

Laboratory Engineer: Uwe Winkler, Dipl. Ing.

Room: G 0.16

Head of Laboratory: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Renner

Laboratory Engineer: Dipl. Ing. Uwe Winkler

Workshop Foreman: Ulf Martienßen

Facilities:

• Reverb chamber for fluid acoustics experiments
• Room airflow laboratory with a raised ceiling, raised floor and heated/cooled walls
• Test and demonstration air-conditioning system with DDC control

Measurement Technology Internship:

• Volume flow
• Humidity
• Free jet
• Fan performance curves

Plant Engineering Practical Course:

• Heat recovery
• Ventilation efficiency
• Silencer
• Envelope method
• Comparison of a free-running wheel with a spiral-cased fan

Room: G 0.17

Head of Laboratory: Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Schenk

Room: G 0.22

Head of Laboratory: Prof. Dr. Martin Ehlers

Laboratory Engineer: Christian Allmanshofer

Facilities:

• Measurement techniques for assessing water quality
• Surveying instruments and equipment
• Pilot plants relating to drinking water hygiene
• Pilot plants relating to the field of wastewater systems
• Pilot plants for water treatment and purification
• Pilot plant for the topic of rainwater infiltration

Measurement Technology Internship

• Water quality analysis
• Test on the rapid filtration system
• Sieve analysis to determine the particle size distribution
• Operation and backwashing of rapid filters (filter test)
• Sieve analysis to determine the particle size distribution
• Surveying exercise (levelling and area survey)

Room: G 1.33

Head of Laboratory: Prof. Dr. Philipp Riegebauer

Laboratory Engineer: Uwe Winkler, Dipl. Ing.

Workshop Supervisor: Ramona Hasse

Facilities:

• 18 work placements for students
• 2 printers

events:

• Programming
• IT applications
• CAD applications and CAD fundamentals
• 3D visualisation
• Editing and production of project work and final dissertations
• Open practice sessions for students

Room: G 0.29

Head of Laboratory: Prof. Dr. Philipp Riegebauer

Laboratory Engineer: Uwe Winkler, Dipl. Ing.

Practical experiments:

• Measurement Techniques Internship: Pressure Loss in Pipeline Components
• Plant Engineering Practical: ‘Compressed Air Supply’

Room: G 4.01

Head of Laboratory: Prof. Dr. Philipp Riegebauer

Laboratory Engineer: Christian Allmanshofer , Dipl. Ing. Uwe Winkler

Facilities:

• Test rig for partially solar-powered space heating
• Heat storage systems with stratified charging devices
• Test rig for decentralised drinking water heating
• Thermal imaging camera

Practical experiments:

• Measurement Technology Internship: Simulation of Solar Thermal Systems