Saskatchewan Sustainable Design 30 PDH Discount Package 2
Courses in this Package
All About Gas Fireplaces (M03-031)
Improving Energy Efficiency of Boiler Systems (M06-022)
HVAC Energy Conservation through Cooling Water Treatment (M05-013)
HVAC Pump Characteristics and Energy Efficiency (M05-007)
HVAC Tips for Green Buildings (M10-002)
General Principals of Engineering Ethics for Saskatchewan Professional Engineers (SK1-001)
This online engineering PDH course presents the basics of gas fireplaces and briefly describes their different types, venting systems, efficiency ratings, ignition and controls, as well as their heat exchange and transfer. It also describes what to look for in a safe, energy-efficient gas fireplace as well as the problems that can be encountered with certain technologies. This course also provides information about where to locate the fireplace for maximum benefit and efficiency.
Changes in the way houses are built and renovated have made most contemporary homes incompatible with conventional wood-burning fireplaces. Most notably, the increased insulation and improved air-tightness of today's homes run counter to the large amounts of air required by conventional wood fireplaces. Such fireplaces are also extremely inefficient and produce high levels of harmful emissions, which pollute outdoor air and can have dangerous effects on indoor air quality. Some new fireplace designs offer a safe, energy-efficient and environmentally friendly alternative to conventional wood fireplaces.
This 3 PDH online course is applicable to engineers, architects, designers, contractors, homeowners, and gas fireplace manufacturers.
This P.Eng. continuing education course is intended to provide you with the following specific knowledge and skills:
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Understanding the different types of gas fireplaces and their venting systems
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Familiarizing with common efficiency ratings
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Familiarizing with different types of ignitions and controls
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Understanding the basics of heat exchange and transfer
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Knowing where to locate a fireplace for maximum benefit
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Understanding the safety tips for operating a gas fireplace
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Learning how to use the gas fireplace efficiently
In this professional engineering CEU course, you need to review the publication "All About Gas Fireplaces" by the Office of Energy Efficiency of the Natural Resources Canada, revised March 2004.
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.
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 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 ethics course is (1) the study of moral issues and decisions confronting individuals and organizations involved in engineering and (2) the study of related questions about moral conduct, character, ideals and relationships of peoples and organizations involved in technological development (Martin and Schinzinger, Ethics in Engineering).
This course will address the principles of engineering ethics that every engineer is expected to live by when practicing their profession. It will also present unique ethical case studies randomly selected to demonstrate ethical challenges for professional engineers and alternatives to address these challenges.
This 1 PDH online course is applicable to Professional Engineers licensed in the Province of Saskatchewan and who are required to demonstrate continuing professional competency in engineering ethics as a condition of their license renewal. For each renewal period, every licensee must complete at least one (1) professional development hour relative to the principals of professional responsibility, conduct and ethics.
This P.Eng. continuing education course is intended to provide you with the following specific knowledge and skills:
- Understanding the definition of engineering ethics
- Learning how to hold the utmost safety, health, and welfare of the public when practicing your profession
- Familiarizing with the conditions to issue public statements
- Gaining a general overview on how to represent each employer or client as a faithful trustee
- Learning how to build your professional reputation on the merit of your services
- Understanding professional ethical practices through presenting realistic case studies
- Learning how to handle proprietary information and intellectual property rights
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.