Course Description
This course demonstrates how to avoid costly errors in the selection and sizing of heating, cooling and air-moving equipment that can result in excess power and energy expense as well as unnecessary capital investment. It explains and demonstrates the latest methodology for sizing and selecting heating, ventilating and air-conditioning equipment for commercial buildings; compares and analyzes common types of HVAC systems and currently available energy conserving and recovery equipment; and explores the issue of indoor air quality
Course Objectives
- Explaining how to determine design cooling and heating loads
- Describing the characteristics of various types of HVAC systems
- Evaluating the potential energy saving techniques and equipment
- Identifying potential solutions to IAQ problems with VAV systems
Who Should Attend?
- Anyone who wish to enhance their knowledge of the fundamentals of equipment sizing and energy estimating for heating and air-conditioning systems
- Designers
- Manufacturers
- Contractors
- Architects
- Engineers
Course Details/Schedule
- Introduction
- Psychrometrics
- Design conditions
- Heat transfer coefficients
- Heating load estimates
- Design cooling load estimates
- Cooling load estimates
- Energy estimating
- Energy estimation
- Equipment and systems
- System analysis
- Problem session
- Problem session
- Indoor air quality (IAQ)
- Energy conservation
- Thermal storage
- Duct design fundamentals
