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Course Outline
Review of HVAC Systems
- Abbreviations and references
- Survey of ASHRAE standards
- Use of a psychrometric chart
- Weather data and climate
- Vapor compression refrigeration
- Chilled water system components
Indoor Swimming Pools
- Wall construction / fenestration
- Duct designs
- Chemistry
- Exhaust
- Load calculations
- Equipment
Ice Skating Rinks
- Facility construction
- Conditions for various surfaces
- Load calculations and equipment
Laboratories
- 2023 HVAC Applications – Chapter 17
- Equipment requirements
- Laboratory ventilation
- Chemical fume hood testing
- Exhaust fans and air dispersion
- Energy conservation measures
Healthcare
- Healthcare codes and standards
- 2023 HVAC Applications – Chapter 9
- FGI – Facility / Guidelines Institute
- ASHRAE 170 – Ventilation of Health Care Facilities
- NFPA 99 – Health Care Facilities Code
- Examples of requirements
- Infection Control Risk Assessment (ICRA)
- Water treatment and circulation
- Indoor Air Quality and air filtration
- Air pressurization requirements
- Humidity requirements
- Steam humidification
- Adiabatic humidification
- Emergency power / Standby
- Authorities Having Jurisdiction
- Governing agencies
- Facility types
- Hospitals
- Outpatient facilities
- Nursing homes and residencies
- Healthcare specific design considerations by space type
Museums and Libraries
- 2023 HVAC Applications – Chapter 24
- Temperature and relative humidity
- Material preservation considerations
- Collection storage and display
Data Centers
- 2023 HVAC Applications – Chapter 20
- ASHRAE thermal guidelines
- ASHRAE Standards 90.1 and 90.4
- Airflow configurations
- CRAC and CRAH units
- Liquid cooled equipment
- Air and water-side economizers
Indoor Plant Growth
- Purpose of growing indoors
- Plant physiology and Vapor Pressure Deficit (VPD)
- Facility construction
- Loads
- Lighting
- Evapotranspiration
- Outdoor air use
- CO2 supplementation
- Controls and psychrometrics of indoor plant growth
- Duct designs and air distribution
- Equipment
- Types
- Redundancy
- Remote monitoring and security
- Humidification
- Commissioning and PM
Net-Zero Energy Buildings
- Definition (ASHRAE Standard 228)
- Site boundary
- Different fuel types and source energy
- Net-Zero carbon buildings – what is the difference?
- Process
- Defining and setting goals
- Conservation and generation
- Operation
- Solar basics
- Photovoltaic (PV)
- Solar thermal
- Case study (Wisconsin school)