HVAC Audit and Analysis

Who Should Attend

• Energy engineers/managers
• Facilities engineers/managers
• Engineers/managers who are required to understand piping networks in the following industries:
  • Process industries such as chemicals & energy, pharmaceutical engineering and food manufacturing
  • Air-conditioning supply
  • Transport engineering (marine & offshore) subsector

Prerequisites

• Bachelor degree in engineering or engineering diploma with 2 years of relevant working experience

What You Will Learn

Chilled water system

• Introduction to HVAC system
• Compression cycle and compression chiller systems
• Absorption cycle and absorption chiller systems
• Water Side circulation system
• Analysing the performance of a chiller plant and chiller sequencing
• Fundamental of chiller plants and its associated components
• Fundamental of cooling towers and its operation
• Heat recovery systems

Airside system

• Air properties for air conditioning
• Performance calculation of HVAC system (air side)
• Introduction to fans/blower for air distribution
• Concept of air side performance
• Duct/pipe system and concept
• Fan selection and pressure drop: Major loss, minor loss, relationship between volume flow rates, pressure drop and power
• Critical parameters for air side performance
• Fundamental of cooling towers and its operation
• Cooling tower performance and operations

            
Data acquisition methodology on HVAC parameters for analysis

• Key parameters on HVAC facilities that affect energy performance
• Efficiency index for different facilities and their best practice efficiencies
• Type of measuring tools
• Safety requirement on power measurement and other measurements
• AHU airflow/face velocity/on/off coil temp using psychrometric chart and software
• Cooling measurement methods on chilled water system + heat balance
• Water pipe system curve generation
• Tutorial on identification of measuring location and type of tools needed

Financial analysis of operating HVAC system

• Financial analysis introduction
• Simple payback calculation
• Net Present Value (NPV) and Internal Rate of Return (IRR)
• Excel exercise on financial calculation
• Life Cycle Cost Analysis (LCCA)
• Tutorial on financial analysis
• Case study introduction and objective

Raw data generation + data analysis

• Super-imposed plot generation: Power, flowrate, temp, pressure, tonnage, efficiency            
• Histogram generation: Power, temp, tonnage, efficiency             
• Scatter diagram for correlation observation: Tonnage vs efficiency, flowrate vs pressure, flowrate per cooling capacity vs delta temp
• Solution proposal with financial calculation (case study)

Schedule

Certificate and Assessment

A Certificate of Participation will be issued to participants who:

• Attend 75% of the course
• Undertake and pass non-credit bearing assessment during the course

Fee Structure

The full fee for this course is S$5,450.00.

Note: All fees above include GST. GST applies to individuals and Singapore-registered companies.