Purpose of Seminar:

In today’s world, energy use plays a significant role in the bottom line of any facility or plant as well as having tremendous environmental impacts. "How to Conduct Your Own Energy Audit" helps you to identify and implement low-cost energy-saving solutions designed to save you money today as well as provide a base for more complex energy-savings measures in the future.

This course will show you how to conduct your own energy audit – the first step to "going green". You’ll learn dozens of tips and tricks to start saving energy costs now and avoid the expense of having a consultant come in and do for you what we can teach you to do on your own. Specific attention is given to the processes and equipment in your facility that consumes the most energy.

But you will also "learn by doing" as you use modern high tech tools such as; a thermal imager to perform infrared scans, an air flow meter to calculate energy losses, a data logger to setup and monitor three-phase power, a light meter to determine light levels. Getting your hands on these key tools and others in class will help you determine the tools you need at your facility, and how to use them to cut energy costs.

By the end of this seminar, students will be able to go back to their facility and immediately apply what they learned to help stop wasting energy today and build a plan for the future. Training like this never costs – it pays!

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this course students will receive a personalized American Trainco Certificate of Completion and 1.6 CEU’s (Continuing Education Credits) approved by the Maintenance Training Association of the Americas indicating that he or she has learned how to:

• Understand Requirements for an Energy Program
• Identify Multiple Energy Savings Programs
• How to Develop an Energy Management Plan
• Understand Energy Management Attitudes (EMA)
• Measure and Compare Your Energy Consumption to Others
• Identify Key Energy Problems in Your Facility
• How to Reduce Energy Input Requirements
• How to Reduce Energy Waste
• Identify Multiple Energy Savings Processes in Maintenance
• How to Implement Energy Reduction Solutions
• Identify and Understand Emerging Energy Sources
• How to Perform an Energy Audit
• How to Read and Understand Your Energy Bill
• How to Work With Your Energy Supplier
• How to Monitor Energy Usage in Your Facility

Course Outline / Agenda

Implementing an Energy Audit will do more than just add dollars to your bottom line, it’s also about planning and maintenance processes that will make your equipment and facility last longer and have a lower impact on the environment. This two-day course is for maintenance personnel, operators, managers, energy managers and environmental managers who desire to understand the best methods of identify and implementing energy reduction solutions. From developing a broad plan to creating detailed check lists for energy consuming equipment, this course will provide you with the tools to start reducing your energy consumption today and put a plan in process to limit its use in the future. This course is the perfect first step if you need to go green.

Introduction

• Financial Opportunities
• The Carbon Footprint
• Codes and Standards
• Three types of audits

The Level II Energy Audit Process

• Energy Conservation Measures (ECM’s)
• Flowchart
• The 8 Steps in an Audit

Measurement Tools for Energy

• Electrical systems
• Temperature
• Combustion
• Air velocity
• Pressure
• Humidity
• Compressed Air and Steam Trap
• Lighting
• Mini data loggers
• Power Loggers
• Power Quality Analyzers

Electric Utility & Natural Gas Bills

• Rate classes & structure
• How to read an electric utility bill
• Auditing charges (energy accounting)
• Energy management and savings

Lighting Systems

• Recommended lighting levels
• Types of lighting
• Audits, management and savings

Air Conditioning

• Compressor Construction and Types
• Evaporators and Condensers
• Cooling Towers
• Chillers & Water
• Audits, management and savings

Heating

• Fuel comparisons and efficiencies
• Boiler types and construction
• Furnaces
• Radiant heating
• Audits, management and savings

Electrical Distribution System Savings

• Motor efficiency ratings
• Variable Frequency Drives (VFD’s)
• Power Quality & Harmonics
• Payback Calculations
• Audits, management and savings

Heat Pumps

• Advantages and disadvantages
• Cooling & Heating modes
• Types & efficiency of heat pumps
• Installation and Piping
• Audits, management and savings

Ventilation

• AHSRAE Standards & Types of systems
• Economizers
• Energy wheel
• Audits, management and savings

Domestic Hot Water

• Electric storage, gas storage
• Instantaneous
• Boilers
• Circulating pump
• Heat pump water heaters
• Payback calculations

Building Envelope

• Understanding heat flow and insulation
• Roofs
• Windows
• Infiltration Methods & Calculations
• Cooling and Heating Degree Days
• Infrared Thermography

Water Conservation

• Water and sewer rates
• Calculations
• The Water Audit
• Water recovery
• Irrigation and landscaping

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.