Purpose of Seminar:
Whether your chilled water system keeps people or equipment cool, this seminar is for
you if you need to understand how your system works and what you can do to make it
work better.
Having a fundamental understanding of chilled water systems is a prerequisite to being
able to properly maintain them and gain additional efficiency from them. This course
will teach you what you need to know so that you can go back to your workplace and
immediately apply what you have learned.
Who should take this course?
This course is designed for people working on or who are responsible for the chilled
water systems in their facility. Attendees come from a wide variety of industries,
skill-levels, company sizes, and job titles, so if you're not sure you'll fit in or
will benefit from the class, don't worry - you will - as long as you are looking to
increase your knowledge about chillers, cooling towers and other chilled water systems!
People who will benefit from this seminar include…
All maintenance and supervisory personnel responsible for chilled water systems in:
- Manufacturing Plants
- Commercial Buildings
- Hospitals
- Waste Water Facilities
- Schools
- Government Buildings
- Research Facilities
- Shopping Centers
- Apartment Buildings
Including:
- Building & Facility Maintenance Maintenance Personnel
- Industrial Maintenance Technicians
- HVAC & Refrigeration Technicians
- Building & Plant Engineers
- Building Managers & Superintendents
- Plant & Facility Managers
- Environmental Health & Safety Personnel
- Boiler Technicians
- HVAC Design Engineers
- Energy Management Personnel
- Multi-craft & Cross Training Personnel
- Any person needing a basic course in chilled water systems!
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, students will receive a training certificate and
1.6 Continuing Education Units indicating that the student understands:
- Components used in chilled water systems and their functions
- Theory of heat transfer and how it applies to chilled water systems
- The compression refrigeration cycle
- Uses and applications of chilled water systems in building HVAC
- Uses and applications of chilled water systems for equipment and industrial settings
- The differences and advantages/disadvantages between air conditioning & chilled water systems
- Basic design, specifications and capacity of chilled water systems
- Refrigerants and refrigerant characteristics
- Psychrometrics – what it is and why it is important
- How to achieve system stability through proper maintenance practices
- Energy consumption strategies for efficiency and savings
- …and more
Course Outline / Agenda
I. CHILLED WATER SYSTEMS OVERVIEW
- Introduction
- Component tasks
- System design
- Controls
- Codes and standards
II. HEAT TRANSFER THEORY
- Properties of matter: solid, liquid, vapor
- Laws of Thermodynamics
- Heat transfer theory:
- Conduction
- Convection
- Radiation
- Evaporation
- Principles of heat and temperature measurement
- British thermal unit, specific heat
- Sensible heat latent heat, superheat
- Gas laws
- Atmospheric pressure, vacuum
- Pressure/temperature and pressure/volume relationships
III. COMPRESSION REFRIGERATION CYCLE
- Refrigeration cycle, change of state of refrigerant
- Heat transfer within the refrigeration cycle
- Follow-the-heat™
IV. REFRIGERANTS
- Refrigerant composition, including new blends
- Refrigerant oils
- Refrigerant handling: recovery, recycling, reclamation
V. EQUIPMENT COMPONENTS
- Compressors: reciprocating, scroll, screw, rotary, centrifugal
- Evaporators: tube-in-shell, tube-in-tube, coil-in-shell
- Condensers: water-cooled, air-cooled, evaporative
- Metering devices:
- Thermostatic expansion valve
- Electronic expansion valve
- High and low side floats
- Auxiliary refrigeration equipment
VI. HEAT REJECTION SYSTEMS
- Cooling towers
- Evaporative coolers and condensers, heat exchangers
- Cooling tower operation and maintenance
- Water chemistry for open and closed re-circulating systems
- Glycol systems and fluids
VI. PSYCHROMETRICS
- Principles of air movement
- Wet-bulb and dry-bulb temperatures
- Relative humidity and dew point temperatures
- Psychrometric chart exercises
Continuing Education Units (CEUs)
All students attending our seminars receive a personalized Certificate of Completion and .8 CEUs
(Continuing Education Units) per day of training. Over 40,000 employers and government agencies who
have sent their employees to our classes accept American Trainco CEUs for continuing education
requirements. Our administration and record keeping practices meet or exceed the standards of ACE
(American Council on Education) and we are able to provide transcripts of all classes attended and
tests taken by individual students. Please contact us if our CEUs are not yet accepted by your authority.
We will initiate an application to get the approval process started.
In House Training
You can bring this or any American Trainco seminar directly to your plant or facility. We offer
dozens of courses
covering a broad range of maintenance and maintenance management topics. Our expert instructors
are among the most experienced in the industry and can modify or customize training programs to
meet your specific needs - whether you need a short refresher course or an in depth program that
focuses on your equipment and processes. In house training reduces the training cost per employee
and limits the time required away from work. There are several other
advantages of in house training as well.
Request a quote for in-house training
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