HVAC Hacks #3: Heating and Cooling Load Calculations – Essential Tips and Rules of Thumb
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In HVAC Hacks #3: Heating and Cooling Load Calculations – Essential Tips and Rules of Thumb, you'll learn ...
- How climate and location significantly impact the heating and cooling needs of your building.
- How building envelope properties (walls, windows, glazing, etc.) influence heat gain and loss.
- Occupancy, ventilation, lighting, equipment, and other internal loads that affect indoor environments.
- Valuable shortcuts to estimate loads quickly for preliminary design stages
Overview
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Credit: 6 PDH
Length: 142 pages
Struggling with time-consuming HVAC load calculations? Learn to master HVAC loads the easy way.
Welcome to "HVAC Hacks," a comprehensive course series packed with essential tips, industry standards, and rules of thumb to simplify your HVAC design process. Explore the range of course modules tailored to meet your specific needs.
Module 3, "Heating and Cooling Load Calculations - Essential Tips and Thumb Rules," is your go-to resource for designing perfect climate control systems. In this 6-hour course, we will delve into the crucial concepts of heat gain and heat loss calculations. We’ll cover an array of topics, including fundamental heat transfer principles, considerations regarding building envelopes, and factors influencing HVAC loads. This course explains the step-by-step method and equations required to ascertain heating and cooling loads for diverse building components, such as walls, roofs, glazing, lighting, equipment, occupants, ventilation, and infiltration, under various scenarios.
Practical tips and handy rules of thumb are provided to make informed decisions and aid in estimating HVAC loads based on floor area, climate zones, and specific building applications. Designed for HVAC engineers, designers, technicians, architects, and individuals involved in HVAC system design, installation, and maintenance, this course caters to both beginners seeking to build a strong foundation and seasoned professionals seeking practical insights and tips to confidently address real-world HVAC challenges.
Specific Knowledge or Skill Obtained
This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:
- The Basics of HVAC load calculations and their significance in system design.
- Common rules of thumb used in HVAC design and their applications.
- The concepts of sensible heat, latent heat, and total heat load.
- The impact of climate and geographical location on HVAC load calculations.
- Building envelope properties and their influence on heat gain and loss.
- Occupancy, ventilation, lighting, equipment, and other loads affecting indoor environments.
- ASHRAE standards, methods, software tools for commercial HVAC load calculations.
- Valuable shortcuts to estimate loads for quick preliminary calculations.
- Best practices and strategies to optimize energy efficiency and sustainability.
- Practical case examples to reinforce HVAC load calculation concepts.
Certificate of Completion
You will be able to immediately print a certificate of completion after passing a multiple-choice quiz consisting of 40 questions. PDH credits are not awarded until the course is completed and quiz is passed.
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Preview a portion of this course before purchasing it.
Credit: 6 PDH
Length: 142 pages
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