Ontario Sustainable Design 30 PDH Discount Package 2
Courses in this Package
An Introduction to Energy Efficient HVAC Controls (M02-053)
HVAC Energy Conservation through Cooling Water Treatment (M05-013)
HVAC Optimization with Cold Air Distribution (M02-026)
HVAC Pump Characteristics and Energy Efficiency (M05-007)
HVAC Tips for Green Buildings (M10-002)
Improving Energy Efficiency of Boiler Systems (M06-022)
This online engineering PDH course addresses automatic temperature and humidity controls, space pressurization controls, safety controls, and energy monitoring and central supervisory control systems for heating, ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC) systems.
Energy efficient control systems are complete, reliable, fully functional, maintainable, fully integrated, addressable, control systems that have been properly designed, installed, and commissioned for efficient and cost-effective operation. In existing facilities, the design is integrated and interfaced into the existing control system so that the new equipment and conditions can be controlled and monitored similar to the existing controlled equipment.
This 2 PDH online course is intended for mechanical and electrical engineers, and other design and construction professionals seeking an introduction to energy efficient control systems for HVAC systems.
This P.Eng. continuing education course is intended to provide you with the following specific knowledge and skills:
- Knowing when to apply and not-apply humidity controls
- Knowing what parameters to monitor and control for air handlers
- Learning about the conditions to be controlled at central HVAC plants
- Knowing the special control issues with variable-air-volume (VAV) systems
- Understanding the importance of contractor submittals for control systems
- Knowing the situations where simultaneous heating and cooling controls are allowable
- Learning about mechanical ventilation controls
- Understanding the fundamentals of energy conservation control schemes
- Learning about fire and smoke protection controls on HVAC systems
In this professional engineering CEU course, you need to review the document titled, "An Introduction to Energy Efficient HVAC Controls".
Once you complete your course review, you need to take a multiple-choice quiz consisting of fifteen (15) questions to earn 2 PDH credits. The quiz will be based on the entire document.
Upon successful completion of the quiz, print your Certificate of Completion instantly. (Note: if you are paying by check or money order, you will be able to print it after we receive your payment.) For your convenience, we will also email it to you. Please note that you can log in to your account at any time to access and print your Certificate of Completion.
This online engineering PDH course provides an overview of the waterside problems specific to HVAC systems. It briefly discusses how the energy is dissipated from the open recirculation systems and how effective implementation and tight monitoring of the water treatment programs can conserve energy.
Cooling water is a vital utility for large air-conditioning systems. Use of good quality water or proper water treatment can cut your water, energy, and maintenance costs substantially. The savings are associated with the prevention or removal of scale built up on a heat exchange surfaces where even a thin film of 1/32" or 0.8mm can increase the energy consumption by nearly 10%. Perhaps most important of all, it can save you the cost of fixing or replacing equipment that's been damaged by inadequate water treatment; including the downtime and lost revenue usually associated with solving such problems.
The 5 PDH online course is applicable to mechanical engineers, HVAC designers, contractors, facility managers, O&M personnel who are responsible for operation and design of efficient HVAC systems.
This P.Eng. continuing education course is intended to provide you with the following specific knowledge and skills:
- Understanding the energy use of air-conditioning system
- Understanding the waterside problems encountering open recirculation water systems
- Understand the need for water treatment
- Understand the operating principles, application, advantages and limitations of common water treatment methods
- Understand the potential benefits of cooling water quality
- Understanding control methods - sampling, testing and recording
- Learning about safety in water treatment
In this professional engineering CEU course, you need to review the course document titled, "HVAC Energy Conservation through Cooling Water Treatment".
Upon successful completion of the quiz, print your Certificate of Completion instantly. (Note: if you are paying by check or money order, you will be able to print it after we receive your payment.) For your convenience, we will also email it to you. Please note that you can log in to your account at any time to access and print your Certificate of Completion.
This online engineering PDH course outlines the application considerations for the successful design, installation and operation of the cold air HVAC system.
The cold air distribution system refers to supplying air at low temperatures of around 42 to 50°F instead of the customary 55 °F. Cooling supply air below 55°F reduces the supply air volume dramatically, thereby reducing the first cost of the air-handling equipment and recurring energy costs. Humidity levels can be lower within range of 40 to 50%, resulting in improved air quality, comfort and productivity. The physical size of HVAC equipment is smaller, resulting in smaller mechanical rooms, less dead space above ceilings, and more room for occupants.
Cold air production and distribution is not straight forward and requires more attention to details during design phase. This includes detailing to prevent condensation or sweating on the cold surfaces, dumping of cold air and careful selection of ceiling diffusers. Duct leakage is more of a concern and coil selection is based on parameters that are different from conventional designs.
This 2 PDH online course is intended for mechanical, chemical & process engineers, system design engineers working in power, oil & gas, chemical, metal & mining, manufacturing and engineering industries, energy auditors, operational and maintenance personnel who are involved in the planning, design and operation of HVAC systems.
This P.Eng. continuing education course is intended to provide you with the following specific knowledge and skills:
- Understanding the design concept of cold air distribution
- Understanding the benefits of cold air distribution
- Learning about cold air relationship to air handling equipment
- Learning about cold air relationship to architectural & mechanical spaces
- Learning about cold air relationship to indoor air quality
- Learning about cold air relationship to energy & cost savings
- Understanding the concerns of cold air distribution (condensation, sweating and dumping)
- Learning about cold air control strategies
- Understanding the design issues
- Utilizing an HVAC optimization checklist
In this professional engineering CEU course, you need to review the document titled, "HVAC Optimization with Cold air Distribution".
Upon successful completion of the quiz, print your Certificate of Completion instantly. (Note: if you are paying by check or money order, you will be able to print it after we receive your payment.) For your convenience, we will also email it to you. Please note that you can log in to your account at any time to access and print your Certificate of Completion.
This online engineering PDH course provides the students with a firm understanding of the basic principles that centrifugal pumps operate under. Topics covered include the performance curve, series operation, parallel operation, the affinity laws, friction, specific gravity & viscosity, suction lift, and NPSH.
Most HVAC systems are designed to handle the maximum potential temperature extremes, keeping the building cool on the hottest days and warm on the coldest days. As a result, the HVAC system only needs to work at full capacity on the ten or so hottest and coldest days of the year. On the other 345 days, the system could be operated at reduced capacity.
HVAC pumps are generally designed for peak conditions and the output of these systems is controlled by mechanically constricting the flow with throttling valves. This wastes energy. By using a variable speed drives, chilled water flows can be matched to actual heating and cooling demands.
This 5 PDH online course is applicable to mechanical and HVAC engineers, process engineers, architects, building designers, contractors, energy auditors, facility managers who are interested in gaining a better understanding of HVAC pump characteristics and energy efficiency.
This P.Eng. continuing education course is intended to provide you with the following specific knowledge and skills:
- Understand the basic types of pumps used in HVAC applications
- Understand the key fluid properties such as viscosity, density, temperature, specific weight, concentration and vapor pressure
- Understand why pump performance in typically rated feet of head and not pressure.
- Understand the various head terms such as suction lift, static head, discharge head, friction head, velocity head and pressure head
- Understand the laws of affinity and illustrate them with a pump operating under VFD control
- Understand the pump curve, system curve, operating point and the best efficiency point for the pump operation
- Understand the flat, smooth and drooping characteristic curve for the centrifugal pump and the applications for which it is best suited
- Understand the importance of specific speed and their relationship to the shape of impeller (radial, mixed or axial)
- Understand pump cavitation and its relationship to net positive suction head (NPSH) available and required
- Understand the various techniques for flow control including throttling, speed adjustment and multi-pump installation considerations in parallel or series arrangement
- Learn by example the method to compute the frictional head through the HVAC chilled water system
- Define the pumping system efficiency and the tips to achieve the same
In this professional engineering CEU course, you need to review the course document titled "HVAC Pump Characteristics and Energy Efficiency".
Upon successful completion of the quiz, print your Certificate of Completion instantly. (Note: if you are paying by check or money order, you will be able to print it after we receive your payment.) For your convenience, we will also email it to you. Please note that you can log in to your account at any time to access and print your Certificate of Completion.
This online engineering PDH course discusses some of the proven energy efficiency HVAC concepts for the new building projects. The course focuses on the design of energy efficient building architecture, building construction materials, HVAC equipment design considerations, energy, refrigerants, construction practices, indoor environment quality and commissioning practices.
Buildings as they are designed and used today, symbolize unrestrained consumption of energy and other natural resources with its consequent negative environment impact. Green HVAC design means improving a facility's indoor air quality (IAQ) and energy consumption as much as possible.
Like many other appliances, the cost of your indoor comfort system includes not only its initial price, but also the ongoing costs of operation and maintenance. This means that the cooling and heating equipment and controls that you select today will continue to impact your finances for as long as you occupy the building. That's why investing in a high efficiency comfort system and maintaining your comfort system makes sense.
This 10 PDH online course is intended for engineers, architects, realtors, building owners, facility managers, interior designers, landscape architects, construction managers, lenders and educators and other professionals interested in learning about tips for green buildings.
This P.Eng. continuing education course is intended to provide you with the following specific knowledge and skills:
- Importance of bio-climatic/solar passive building design, building siting, day-lighting and other architectural elements for minimizing HVAC loads
- Affect of energy efficient lighting and appliances on HVAC system
- Principles of heat transfer and the parameters affecting the selection of energy efficient building envelope materials for roof, walls, glazing and insulation
- Criteria for selecting appropriate cooling system for your application - package units, ductless split, central chiller systems
- Impact of CFC compounds on ozone depletion and adopting environment friendly refrigerants
- Principles of cooling tower operation and importance of cooling water treatment
- Selection criteria for hydronic system including chilled water & condenser water pumps, variable speed pumping, chilled water distribution schemes, piping and heat recovery
- Selection criteria for energy efficient air distribution system including air handlers, variable air volume systems, optimal air distribution systems, and ductwork.
- The heat recovery devices and systems such as airside & waterside economizers, enthalpy & heat wheels, heat pipe systems and run-around systems
- Alternate system designs using dedicated outdoor air handling systems, demand control ventilation, displacement ventilation, hybrid ventilation, heat pumps and evaporative cooling systems
- Energy efficient space heating systems including furnaces, boilers, heat recovery devices, radiant slab and panel heating systems
- The concepts of thermal energy storage and energy management systems
In this professional engineering CEU course, you need to review the course document tilted, "HVAC Tips for Green Buildings".
Upon successful completion of the quiz, print your Certificate of Completion instantly. (Note: if you are paying by check or money order, you will be able to print it after we receive your payment.) For your convenience, we will also email it to you. Please note that you can log in to your account at any time to access and print your Certificate of Completion.
This online engineering PDH course provides simple facts and energy efficiency opportunities in the areas of combustion management, makeup & feed water management, condensate return, blow-down system, waste heat recovery and steam distribution & utilization.
Fuel consumers face a double challenge. One is economic - to get the best heating value for every fuel dollar. The other is environmental - to keep emissions low, at least within legislated limits. Fortunately, what benefits the first objective also benefits the second. A boiler installation costing $75,000 can easily consume over $400,000 in fuel every year. Consequently, even with very economical fuel costs, a difference of just a few percentage points in boiler efficiency can translate into substantial savings. Understanding boiler operating costs is the key to maximizing investments year in and year out.
This 6 PDH online course is intended for mechanical, chemical & process engineers, system design engineers working in power, oil & gas, chemical, metal & mining, manufacturing and engineering industries, energy auditors, operational and maintenance personnel who are involved in the design and operation of boiler systems.
This P.Eng. continuing education course is intended to provide you with the following specific knowledge and skills:
- Understanding the direct and indirect methods for evaluating boiler efficiencies
- Establishing list of energy losses in a boiler system
- Learning about combustion analysis; excess air control and air-fuel mix
- Learning about heat recovery systems (economizers, preheater, flue gas condensing etc)
- Familiarizing with waterside and fireside problems
- Understanding the various boiler water treatment approaches
- Understanding the importance of condensate recovery
- Learning about blowdown optimization and waste heat recovery using flash tanks/ heat exchangers
- Learning about energy efficiency in steam distribution and steam utilization
- Applying automation using burner controls and oxygen trims
- Utilizing boiler audit checkpoints & questionnaire
In this professional engineering CEU course, you need to review the document titled "Improving Energy Efficiency of Boiler Systems".
Upon successful completion of the quiz, print your Certificate of Completion instantly. (Note: if you are paying by check or money order, you will be able to print it after we receive your payment.) For your convenience, we will also email it to you. Please note that you can log in to your account at any time to access and print your Certificate of Completion.