Energy Management and Controls
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Understanding the key maintenance and energy management aspects of building management is critical to running a cost-effective operation. From everyday preventive maintenance tasks to the challenge of developing and selling an energy plan, this course provides you with the skills to evaluate and optimize your current system, the know-how to integrate new components, and the ability to communicate your needs to management.
This course covers heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) control systems, and teaches you to develop energy management strategies for HVAC, electronic, and lighting systems. You will learn about the components, principles, adjustment, and maintenance of the system controller, auxiliary devices, and electronic, pneumatic, and computer control systems. You will develop an understanding of the operation of heating, cooling, humidification, and dehumidification control applications, and learn about variable air volume design and building pressurization control devices. You will develop the skills and knowledge to do cost/benefit analysis of HVAC, electric and lighting systems and to create an energy management program for your facility.
Major topics covered in this course
- Control systems basics
- Auxiliary and electronic controls and their heating, cooling, humidifying dehumidifying, and volume
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- Computerized automatic control systems
- Factors determining energy consumption in HVAC electronic and lighting systems
- Preventative maintenance measures in energy management
- Energy management control systems applications
You will take away these key concepts and skills
- The skill to apply an energy management plan to your building' systems
- The know -how to apply evaluate new systems with an eye toward retrofitting
- An understanding of traditional and alternative energy systems
- A knowledge of programmable logic controllers (PLC's) and other resources to optimizer your system
- The ability to effectively develop and present an energy system
- The skills to develop, implement and manage a preventative maintenance program
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