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

•   Data Centers

•   Schools

•   Government Buildings

•   Research Facilities

•   Shopping Centers

•   Apartment Buildings

 

Including:

•  Building & Facility Maintenance Personnel

•  Industrial Maintenance Technicians

•  Refrigeration Technicians HVAC &

•  Building & Plant Engineers

•  Building Managers & Executives

•  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 understands:

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• 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

•  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

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Topics:

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• Chilled Water Systems Overview

• Heat Transfer Theory

• Compression Refrigeration Cycle

• Refrigerants

• Equipment Components

• Heat Rejection Systems

• Psychometrics