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In HVAC Hacks #8: Efficient Cooling with HVAC Chillers – Essential Tips and Rules of Thumb, you'll learn ...
- Chillers and their applications, including the various types of chillers, such as vapor compression and absorption chillers.
- How chillers work, including the thermodynamic cycle involved in the cooling process, the different components of a chiller system, and the various refrigerants used.
- Factors to consider when selecting a chiller, such as the type of compressors – scroll, screw and centrifugal type and type of condensers – air-cooled vs. water-cooled.
- Chiller performance issues including full load and part load efficiencies and ASHRAE 90.1 performance requirements.
Overview
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Credit: 7 PDH
Length: 151 pages
Looking for optimal cooling solutions for large buildings? Unleash efficient cooling with HVAC chillers!
Welcome to "HVAC Hacks," a comprehensive course series packed with essential tips, industry standards, and rules of thumb to simplify your HVAC design process. Explore the range of course modules tailored to meet your specific needs.
Module 8, titled "Efficient Cooling with HVAC Chillers – Essential Tips & Rules of Thumb," unveils the secrets of robust and efficient cooling for large buildings. Chilled water systems, with chillers at their core, play an important role in achieving this goal.
This course delves deep into chiller selection (scroll, screw, centrifugal), cutting-edge tech advancements, system design principles, maximizing cooling efficiency, and keeping operational costs in check. Packed with essential metrics, practical tips, and handy rules of thumb, this course equips you to make informed decisions and ensure your large building stays cool, comfortable, and energy efficient.
This course caters to HVAC design professionals seeking to broaden their expertise, facility managers, building owners, and operators aiming to boost efficiency and comfort. It is also beneficial for facility professionals involved in developing or overseeing expansive commercial and public spaces like airports, metros, shopping malls, schools, and institutional campuses with multiple buildings. Basic knowledge of HVAC systems is preferred.
Specific Knowledge or Skill Obtained
This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:
- Environmental regulations related to chiller systems, such as refrigerant phase-outs and restrictions on emissions.
- Best practices involving heat recovery, variable speed drive operation, series chiller configuration, thermal energy storage and district cooling systems.
- Factors that affect chiller plant layout, mechanical space, physical dimensions, and weights.
- Essential equations and rules of thumb to design and optimize HVAC chiller plants for efficiency, reliability, and performance
Certificate of Completion
You will be able to immediately print a certificate of completion after passing a multiple-choice quiz consisting of 40 questions. PDH credits are not awarded until the course is completed and quiz is passed.
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Preview a portion of this course before purchasing it.
Credit: 7 PDH
Length: 151 pages
