All publications in Omega system
Book publications
Ergonomics for safe and hygienic work
Monika Blaszczok
The handbook discusses issues related to the physiology of work, and the strain on the human body, both physical and mental. It shows the use of anthropometry in the ergonomic design of tools and workstations. The publication also discusses the topic of stress and its prevention, organization of working time and breaks. Knowledge of the topics covered in the manual allows you to create safe working conditions and achieve high work efficiency with a low biological cost and high job satisfaction.
Wydawnictwo Politechniki Śląskiej, Gliwice 2018
Quality of selected measurements and calculations in the technique of dusty gases
Przemysław Kateusz
The monograph covers selected issues in air protection, the common feature of which is the analysis of the accuracy of measurements and calculations regarding particulate matter present in dusty exhaust gases or air (mainly indoors). Some of them are interrelated. They are utilitarian in nature. Their solutions are ready-made proposals that can be used in practice – mainly related to industrial situations.
Wydawnictwo Politechniki Śląskiej, Gliwice 2018
Analysis of the efficiency of gravitational smoke extraction of buildings in wind conditions
Małgorzata Król
The monograph presents the state of knowledge about the phenomenon of wind influx on the building and the issue of the pressure it generates on the facades of the building. The issues of smoke flow towards smoke vents and factors that may interfere with this process are presented.
Wydawnictwo Politechniki Śląskiej, Gliwice 2018
Evaluation of the microclimate in museum rooms under variable internal and external loads
Joanna Ferdyn-Grygierek
The monograph presents a methodology that allows you to assess the environment in museum rooms, quantify the factors responsible for the degradation processes of cultural heritage, and select the most appropriate interventions to improve the conservation status. This methodology includes monitoring microclimate parameters for one year, infrared thermography and analysis of construction documentation.
Wydawnictwo Politechniki Śląskiej, Gliwice 2018
Designing ventilation and air conditioning. Advanced topics
Barbara Lipska, Zbigniew Trzeciakiewicz
This handbook is the final part of a three-part series on ventilation and air conditioning design. It is intended primarily for students of environmental engineering and related fields, as well as for engineers who want to organize and consolidate their knowledge in this field. The handbook presents advanced issues in the field of ventilation and air conditioning design from 3 thematic groups: the use of energy-saving devices, air conditioning systems in multi-room facilities, and ventilation and air conditioning in facilities with special requirements.
Wydawnictwo Politechniki Śląskiej, Gliwice 2018
Settlements of heating costs in multi-family buildings using heating cost allocators
Halina Ciuman, Aleksandra Specjał
The handbook discusses problems related to billing for heat used for heating purposes in multi-family buildings where heating cost allocators are used. The handbook is intended primarily for students of environmental engineering at technical universities. It can also be used by students of other faculties and specializations where the issue of energy use in construction is discussed, as well as specialists responsible for properly operating building structures.
Wydawnictwo Politechniki Śląskiej, Gliwice 2017
Heating of sacred buildings
Hernyk Foit, Antoni Pietrzyk, Piotr Lubina, Barbara Lipska, Zbigniew Trzeciakiewicz, Jan Kaczmarczyk, Marta Foit
The guidebook presents issues related to the heating of sacred buildings and problems occurring during the operation of these buildings. The most commonly used heating, ventilation and air-conditioning systems in sacral buildings and possible heat sources were presented.
Publication financed by the Provincial Office for the Protection of Monuments in Katowice and the Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice.
Wydawnictwo i Drukarnia św. Krzyża, Gliwice 2017
Ventilation aerodynamics
Stanisław Mierzwiński
The guidebook is devoted to the applications of aerodynamics in the main areas of ventilation, such as forecasting the velocity fields of air flows in rooms and hermetization of sources of harmful emissions, as well as the assessment of flow effects of ventilation. The topics were extended to include local exhaust ventilation, dynamic airtight sealing of local exhausts and assessment of air separation properties, as well as examples of ventilation forecasting.
Wydawnictwo Politechniki Śląskiej, Gliwice 2015
Analysis of the impact of localized indoor environmental systems on the users’ comfort and building energy consumption
Jan Kaczmarczyk
The monograph presents the results of three experimental series aimed at demonstrating the impact of indoor environment quality on the comfort, health and work efficiency of room users. The experiments focused mainly on studying thermal sensations, air quality and the intensity of some symptoms of Sick Building Syndrome (SBS).
Wydawnictwo Politechniki Śląskiej, Gliwice 2014
Designing ventilation and air conditioning. Basics of air treatment
Barbara Lipska
The handbook (second edition) is the first part of a three-part series on the design of ventilation and air conditioning. It was developed based on the author’s many years of experience in teaching ventilation and air conditioning design. It is intended for students of environmental engineering and related fields, as well as engineers who want to organize and consolidate knowledge in this field.
Wydawnictwo Politechniki Śląskiej, Gliwice 2014
Designing ventilation and air conditioning. Devices and ducts
Barbara Lipska
The handbook is the second part of a three-part series on ventilation and air conditioning design. It is intended for students of environmental engineering and related fields, as well as engineers who want to organize and consolidate their knowledge in this field.
The handbook presents, in the form of calculation or design examples with a solution, preceded by a theoretical introduction, issues related to the design of devices and ducts included in ventilation and air-conditioning systems.
Wydawnictwo Politechniki Śląskiej, Gliwice 2014
Technical aspects of energy management in buildings. Volume I
Technical aspects of energy management in buildings. Volume II
Marian B. Nantka
The handbook presents selected issues that make up the complex nature of technical and economic relations regarding buildings, treated as a construction and energy system, which consists of the structure of the building and a set of devices and installations producing, transmitting and distributing energy carriers. Attention was also paid to external sources and networks connected to buildings and their technical equipment. Knowledge of their structure and interaction with objects is necessary to assess the quality of their cooperation with devices and internal equipment installations. Placing this information in one place facilitates full understanding and mastering of installation, energy and economic issues in any complex systems.
Wydawnictwo Politechniki Śląskiej, Gliwice 2014
Heating and district heating. Volume I
Heating and district heating. Volume II
Marian B. Nantka
The book deals with heating installations, especially central heating installations. The content is divided into several interrelated thematic parts. Emphasis was placed on presenting internal solutions for water heating installations and water heating networks, treating steam heating and air installations as information. The study consists of two volumes.
The first volume is devoted to the classification and comparison of heating systems, and the discussion of the properties of fuels and thermal energy carriers. Heat sources, from boilers to heating systems, are also presented.
The second volume presents selected elements of internal installations, starting from radiators, through types of ducts, methods of their insulation and routing, fastening and connection, and the use of shut-off, safety and regulating fittings, and ending with solutions for basic heating systems, dimensioning and regulation, and problems related to their operation. Finally, issues related to improving the existing building and heating installations were discussed.
Wydawnictwo Politechniki Śląskiej, Gliwice 2014
Ventilation with air conditioning elements
Marian B. Nantka
The hanbook is a continuation of the issues presented in the author’s earlier textbooks entitled “Buildings and their heating and ventilation needs” from 2000 and “Heating and District Heating” from 2006. The material currently presented on the systems of air exchange in buildings is an auxiliary item, intended for students of environmental engineering, civil engineering and architecture, and others, whose curricula include the subjects of heating and district heating, ventilation and air-conditioning, thermal (energy) management, building installations, building physics, auditing in construction or other similar subjects. The range of presented issues is also helpful for designers and contractors of the discussed solutions and their users.
The handbook presents the main theoretical issues and problems related mainly to the basic topics of the above-mentioned subjects, including natural ventilation systems, also known as gravitational ventilation.
Wydawnictwo Politechniki Śląskiej, Gliwice 2015
Individual, conventional heat sources
Henryk Foit
The handbook aims to comprehensively cover the construction and operation of conventional, individual heat sources, supplying heat mainly to water-based central heating installations and utility water preparation systems. The handbook is intended primarily for students of environmental engineering at technical universities. It can be used by students of similar fields of study and engineers and technicians in the design, construction and operation of heating, ventilation and air-conditioning systems.
Wydawnictwo Politechniki Śląskiej, Gliwice 2011
Individual heat substations
Henryk Foit
The handbook presents the types of heating substations and the tasks they fulfil, the rules for selecting a specific type of substations, the rules for selecting their basic elements, the problems of automatic control of substation operation, the conditions for their connection to the heating network and the requirements for rooms in which substations can be installed. The textbook is intended primarily for students of technical universities majoring in environmental engineering.
Wydawnictwo Politechniki Śląskiej, Gliwice 2012
The use of renewable heat sources in heating and ventilation
Henryk Foit
The textbook presents information on using renewable heat (energy) in individual heat sources cooperating with central heating, mechanical ventilation and domestic hot water preparation systems. The characteristics of the devices used for this purpose and the conditions for their effective operation, dimensioning and schematic diagrams of heat sources and installations using these devices are presented.
Wydawnictwo Politechniki Śląskiej, Gliwice 2013
Thermal Diagnostics Handbook
Volume 1. In situ diagnostics of thermal insulation of buildings – collective work edited by Tomasz Steidel
Volume 2. In situ diagnostics of heat sources and heating and domestic hot water installations – collective work edited by Henryk Foit
Volume 3. In situ diagnostics of cooling sources and ventilation and air-conditioning systems – collective work edited by Zbigniew Trzeciakiewicz
Volume 4. In situ diagnostics of the indoor environment in buildings – collective work edited by Jan Kaczmarczyk
Volume 5. Comprehensive thermal diagnostics of buildings in situ in practice – collective work edited by Zbigniew Popiołek
Volume 6. Methodology for determining the energy performance certificate of a building based on measurements – collective work edited by Aleksandra Specjał
Politechnika Śląska, Wydział Inżynierii Środowiska i Energetyki, Gliwice 2013
(item available at the Main Library of the Silesian University of Technology – Reading Room I)
Indoor Climate Quality Assessment – Evaluation Of Indoor Thermal And Indoor Air Quality
S.P. Corgnati (ed.), M. Gameiro da Silva (ed.), R. Ansaldi, E. Asadi, J.J. Costa, M. Filippi, Jan Kaczmarczyk, A.K. Melikov, B.W. Olesen, Zbigniew Popiołek, P. Wargocki
The guide provides practical instructions for measuring and monitoring the indoor environment in buildings.
REHVA Guidebook #14. Finland, Federation of European Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning Associations. 2011
Aerodynamics of general ventilation
Stanisław Mierzwiński
Forecasting quasi-free air flows in rooms, selection of methods and tools for modeling ventilation air distribution and evaluation of flow effects of ventilation are grateful fields for the application of knowledge in the field of applied aerodynamics.
This guidebook is devoted to the physical analysis and mathematical analysis of the phenomena of turbulent air flows in the ventilation of rooms. The given descriptions of properties and examples of visualization of such perceptible, but “invisible” flows may help achieve the practical ability to forecast the effects of ventilation in facilities for various purposes.
Wydawnictwo Politechniki Śląskiej, Gliwice 2007
Modeling natural ventilation of multi-family buildings
Andrzej Baranowski
Scientific Journals of the Silesian University of Technology. Monograph
Wydawnictwo Politechniki Śląskiej, Gliwice 2007
Shaping a two-zone air flow in a room with displacement ventilation
Zbigniew Trzeciakiewicz
Scientific Journals of the Silesian University of Technology. Monograph
Wydawnictwo Politechniki Śląskiej, Gliwice 2007
Quality control of numerical modeling of air flow in ventilated rooms
Barbara Lipska
Scientific Journals of the Silesian University of Technology. Monograph
Wydawnictwo Politechniki Śląskiej, Gliwice 2006
Optimization of thermal protection of a residential building, installation and heat source
Henryk Foit
Scientific Journals of the Silesian University of Technology. Monograph
Wydawnictwo Politechniki Śląskiej, Gliwice 2006
Energy-saving shaping of the indoor environment
Collective work edited by Zbigniew Popiołek
The monograph is the result of the work of the “ENER-INDOOR” Center financed by the European Union. The monograph presents selected issues concerning energy-saving shaping of the indoor environment. The authors of the studies are employees of Polish research centers and outstanding European experts in this field.
Politechnika Śląska, Katedra Ogrzewnictwa, Wentylacji i Techniki Odpylania, Gliwice 2005
Indoor environment. Impact on health, comfort and work efficiency
Edited by: P.O. Fanger, Zbigniew Popiołek, P. Wargocki
On the occasion of awarding Professor Povl Ole Fanger (Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark) the title of Doctor Honoris Causa of the Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice, a group of employees of the Department of Heating, Ventilation and Dedusting Technology of the Silesian University of Technology and the International Center for the Indoor Environment and Energy, operating at the University of Lyngby under the direction of Professor Fanger, decided to publish a new monograph in Polish, which is a review of the latest results of the work of Professor Fanger and his team. The monograph also presents research results as part of joint international research projects, as well as work inspired by earlier research by Professor Fanger and his team.
Politechnika Śląska, Katedra Ogrzewnictwa, Wentylacji i Techniki Odpylania, Gliwice 2003
Anemometry and its application in model studies of dust collection and ventilation processes
Stanisław Mierzwiński, Zbigniew Popiołek
Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich, Wydawnictwo Polskiej Akademii Nauk, Wrocław etc. 1980
