VOA 801 - Commercial HVAC Systems

4.6 Continuing Education Units (CEU). This course is not for Credit(s).

This course is designed to enable the student to explore the technology used in commercial, institutional, and industrial cooling systems. Topics to be covered include an analysis of system performance and diagnosis of problems; examining equipment such as reciprocating and centrifugal chillers, absorption systems, cooling towers, and fans and air handlers; and psychometrics, pressure-enthalpy diagrams, and commercial load calculations.

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course the student will be able to:

identify the components of a large commercial cooling system;
describe the operation of a chiller/cooling tower/pump system;
relate psychometrics, pressure-enthalpy diagrams, and commercial load calculations to commercial air conditioning processes;
explain the composition of acceptable air quality;
explain the relationship between pressure and temperature;
demonstrate the ability to correlate the gas laws as they relate to HVAC; and
explain the difference between conduction, convection, and radiation.