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Course Description

This course examines cooling system characteristics, advanced dehumidification systems and ventilation control strategies that can be an important part of conserving energy, maintaining comfort, and controlling humidity in green buildings. Case studies will also be used that highlight re-commissioning items that result in significant energy savings. This course is designed to accommodate those not very familiar with HVAC that want to learn more and has enough detailed information about advanced systems that will benefit those more experienced.

Course Learning Objectives

Primary objective is for student to be able to design or identify HVAC equipment and practices that will minimize energy consumption and effectively control indoor relative humidity.

Objectives; Each student will be able to:

• Distinguish the difference between sensible heat and latent heat.
• Understand the importance of pre-treating outside ventilation air.
• Use a psychrometric chart to determine the dewpoint temperature, moisture content, and enthalpy of air at given conditions.
• Identify five air conditioning systems and operational methods that control humidity well.
• Identify four methods of ventilation control that can provide adequate ventilation and conserve energy.
• Identify at least two advanced dehumidification systems that work exceptionally well at dehumidifying air in an energy efficient manner.
• Identify five cost-effective items to consider in re-commissioning that can have big impact on energy conservation.

Course Outline

Building Cooling Loads: Sensible and Latent

• Four Types of Uncontrolled Air Flow
• Fundamentals of Airflow and Pressure in Buildings

Applying Psychrometrics

• Properties of Moist Air
• How to Use a Psychrometric Chart
• Determining Dewpoint, Enthalpy, and Humidity Ratio
• Determining Cooling Output
• Why Relative Humidity Can Vary in the Same Room

Selecting Cooling Systems for Good Humidity Control

Ventilation Requirements and Strategies for Improved Humidity Control

• Introduction to ASHRAE Standard 62.1-2007
• Ventilation Challenges and Solutions
• Efficient Methods to Avoid Over-Ventilation
• Student exercise- selecting HVAC exercise A

Morning quiz and answer

Advanced Dehumidification Technologies and Strategies

• Controlling and Conditioning Outside Air
• Lowering Sensible Heat Ratio of Cooling System
• Enthalpy Recovery Ventilators
• Heat Pipes
• Subcool Reheat Systems
• AC With Enthalpy Exchange Systems
• Dehumidifiers
  Student exercise- selecting HVAC exercise B

Recommissioning Small Commercial Building Opportunities

Recommissioning Medium-Large Commercial Opportunities

Recommissioning Evaluation Exercise

• Small group student exercise where each group discusses and determines
  recommendations based on audit findings from a large university building.
  Each group will discuss ideas with the class and instructor.

Considering an In-house ESCO

Afternoon quiz and answer

Complete Course Evaluations and Adjourn

Qualifications of Instructors

James B. Cummings is a Program Director at FSEC where he has been principal investigator for 24 research projects over 18 years. He has conducted field research in more than 250 homes and 100 commercial buildings, identifying air flow, pressure differential, HVAC, and moisture control failures. He has done extensive training in building science, combining his considerable diagnostic field experience into his training experience. Mr. Cummings holds an MS degree in Applied Solar Energy.

Chuck Withers is a Senior Research Engineer at FSEC and a hands-on building scientist and accomplished researcher (18 published papers). He has performed field research in more than 300 buildings. He is fluent in the language of building diagnostics – blower doors, duct testers, pressure mapping, and air flow verification – because he has performed a full range of tests on a wide range of buildings. He has seen how buildings fail and knows how to communicate that knowledge. He has presented at more than 40 conferences, workshops, and courses, including Florida Energy Gauge, duct leak test method, IAQ Diagnostics, and commercial buildings uncontrolled air flow courses. He has a BS degree in Secondary Education Physics.

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Date	Location	Price
Feb 18, 2009	Cocoa, FL	$269	Click here to register

Register online by clicking the above link or by phone by calling (321) 638-1422 and giving your credit card information.

Note: All payments are fully refundable if cancellation is received at least 7 business days before the class begins. FSEC reserves the right to cancel any course in the event of insufficient pre registration. In that event, all payments are fully refundable.