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REF: Mehta and Thumann, Handbook of Energy Engineering, Chapter 2. REF: Turner, Energy Management Handbook, Chapter 4. REF: Capehart, Turner and Kennedy, Guide to Energy Management, Chapter 4.
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REF: Mehta and Thumann, Handbook of Energy Engineering, Chapter 3. REF: Turner, Energy Management Handbook, Chapter 3. REF: Capehart, Turner and Kennedy, Guide to Energy Management, Chapter 2.
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ELECTRICAL SYSTEMS
Demand and Energy Real Power Power Factor Power Factor Correction Rate Structure and Analysis Variable Speed Drives Power Quality Grounding Load Factors Reactive Power Three Phase Systems Peak Demand Reduction Motors and Motor Drives Affinity Laws (Pump and Fan Laws) Harmonics IEEE PQ Standard 519
REF: Mehta and Thumann, Handbook of Energy Engineering, Chapter 4. REF: Turner, Energy Management Handbook, Chapter 11. REF: Capehart, Turner and Kennedy, Guide to Energy Management, Chapter 3.
V. HVAC SYSTEMS
Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) Affinity Laws Performance Rating (COP, EER, kW/ton) Psychrometric Chart HVAC Economizers HVAC Equipment Types Air Distribution Systems (Reheat, Multizone, VAV) Degree Days Chillers Heat Transfer Energy Consumption Estimates Vapor Compression Cycle Absorption Cycle Cooling Towers Air and Water Based Heat Flow ASHRAE Ventilation Standard Demand Control Ventilation REF: Mehta and Thumann, Handbook of Energy Engineering, Chapter 7, 8. REF: Turner, Energy Management Handbook, Chapter 10. REF: Capehart, Turner and Kennedy, Guide to Energy Management, Chapter 6.
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REF: Mehta and Thumann, Handbook of Energy Engineering, Chapter 4. REF: Turner, Energy Management Handbook, Chapter 11. REF: Capehart, Turner and Kennedy, Guide to Energy Management, Chapter 12.
REF: Mehta and Thumann, Handbook of Energy Engineering, Chapter 5, 6 & 15. REF: Turner, Energy Management Handbook, Chapter 5, 6 & 8. REF: Capehart, Turner and Kennedy, Guide to Energy Management, Chapter 7, 11.
REF: Mehta and Thumann, Handbook of Energy Engineering, Chapter 7. REF: Turner, Energy Management Handbook, Chapter 9 & 15. REF: Capehart, Turner and Kennedy, Guide to Energy Management, Chapter 6 & 11.
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REF: Mehta and Thumann, Handbook of Energy Engineering, Chapter 9. REF: Turner, Energy Management Handbook, Chapter 7. REF: Capehart, Turner and Kennedy, Guide to Energy Management, 6th, Chapters 13 and 14
REF: Mehta and Thumann, Handbook of Energy Engineering, Chapter 1. REF: Turner, Energy Management Handbook, Chapter 21, 23, & 24.
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REF: Mehta and Thumann, Handbook of Energy Engineering, Chapter 4 and 10. REF: Turner, Energy Management Handbook, Chapter 12. REF: Capehart, Turner and Kennedy, Guide to Energy Management, 6th, Chapter 9 and 15.
REF: United States Green Building Council, website with LEED v3 and LEED Rating Systems presentations, www.usgbc.org REF: ENERGY STAR Building & Plants, ENERGY STAR website, www.energystar.gov REF: Capehart, Turner and Kennedy, Guide to Energy Management, 6th, Chapter 16
REF: Mehta and Thumann, Handbook of Energy Engineering, Chapter 12. REF: Turner, Energy Management Handbook, Chapter 19.
REF: Mehta and Thumann, Handbook of Energy Engineering, Chapter 4. REF: Turner, Energy Management Handbook, Chapter 13. REF: Capehart, Turner and Kennedy, Guide to Energy Management, Chapter 5.
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REF: Mehta and Thumann, Handbook of Energy Engineering, Chapter 6. REF: Turner, Energy Management Handbook, Chapter 5 and 6. REF: Capehart, Turner and Kennedy, Guide to Energy Management, Chapter 7 and 8.
REF: Mehta and Thumann, Handbook of Energy Engineering, Chapter 14. REF: Turner, Energy Management Handbook, Chapter 14. REF: Capehart, Turner and Kennedy, Guide to Energy Management, Chapter 10 and 11.
COMMISSIONING Purpose of Commissioning Need for Commissioning Retro-Commissioning Measurement and Verification Phases of Commissioning Commissioning Documentation
Benefits of Commissioning Commissioning New Buildings Real Time and Continuous Commissioning Commissioning Agent Facility Design Intent Re-commissioning
REF: Mehta and Thumann, Handbook of Energy Engineering, Chapter 16. REF: Turner, Energy Management Handbook, Chapter 25.
1. ASHRAE 90.1 is used as the basis for Commercial Building Codes by most states? i. True ii. False 2. Commercial building lighting requirements are specified by IESNA and are included in ASHRAE 90.1 by reference? i. True ii. False 3. If electricity is selling for $0.06 per kilowatt-hour and is used for electric heating with an efficiency of 90%, what is the equivalent price of natural gas per therm if it can be burned with an efficiency of 80%? i. $1.33/therm ii. $1.47/therm iii. $1.56/therm iv. $1.65/therm v. $1.780/therm 4. An energy saving device will save $25,000 per year for 8 years. How much can a company pay for this device if the interest rate (discount rate) is 15%? i. $10,000 ii. $173,000 iii. $112,000 iv. $77,000 5. What would be used to find hot spots or phase imbalances in an AC circuit? i. Ohmmeter ii. Infrared Camera iii. Wattmeter iv. All of the above 6. An audit for one firm showed that the power factor is almost always 70% and that the demand is 1000kW. What capacitor size is needed to correct power factor to 90%? i. 266 kVAR ii. 536 kVAR iii. 1000 kVAR iv. 618 kVAR v. 1214 kVAR
7. The amount of reactive power that must be supplied by capacitors to correct a power factor of 84% to 95% in a 400 HP motor at 75% load and 98% efficiency is: i. 72.4 kVAR ii. 82.5 kVAR iii. 92.4 kVAR iv. 90.0 kVAR v. 123.5 kVAR 8. Power factor correcting capacitors may be located: i. At the inductive load ii. At load control centers iii. At the customer side of the service transformer iv. All of the above v. i & ii 9. You find that you can replace a 50 HP motor with a 5 HP motor by cutting the total air flow requirements. Both motors operate at full load. Calculate the total dollar savings, given the information below: {Hint: savings of 45 HP} Runtime: 8,760 hours/year Motor Efficiency: 90% (both motors) Electrical Rate: $9.00/kW/mo $0.05/kWh Fuel Cost Adjustment: $0.005/kWh i. $22,000 ii. $12,710 iii. $18,798 iv. $15,650 v. $9,874 10. An absorption system with a COP of 0.8 is powered by hot water that enters at 200 F and exits at 180 F at a rate of 25 gpm. The chilled water operates on a 10 F temperature difference and the condenser cooling water on a 22 F temperature difference. Calculate the chilled water flow. i. 10 gpm ii. 20 gpm iii. 40 gpm iv. 45 gpm v. 30 gpm 11. 10,000 cfm of air leaves an air handler at 50 F; it is delivered to a room at 65 F. No air was lost in the duct. No water was added or taken away from the air in the duct. How many BTU/hr was lost in the ductwork due to conduction? i. 162,000 BTU/hr ii. 75,000 BTU/hr iii. 126,550 BTU/hr iv. 256,000 BTU/hr v. 10,000 BTU/hr 12. An investment tax credit of 10% for a single project at a large company: i. Reduces the companys overall taxes by 10% ii. Increases depreciation rate by 10% iii. Effectively reduces first cost of the project by 10% iv. i & iii
13. Air at 69 F dry bulb and 50% relative humidity flows at 6750 cubic feet per minute and is heated to 90 F dry bulb. How many BTU/hr is required in this process? i. 50,000 BTU/hr ii. 75,000 BTU/hr iii. 152,000 BTU/hr iv. 10,000 BTU/hr 14. Estimate the seasonal energy consumption for a building if its design-heating load has been determined to be 350,000 BTU/hr for a design temperature difference of 70 F if the heating season has 3,500-degree days. The heating unit efficiency is 80%. Assume 1 MCF = 106 BTU. i. 625 MCF/year ii. 350 MCF/year iii. 420 MCF/year iv. 656 MCF/year v. 525 MCF/year 15. A wall has a total R-value of 15. Determine the annual cost of the heat loss per square foot in a climate having 5,000 heating degree-days. The heating unit efficiency is 70% and the fuel cost is $5.00/million BTUs. i. $0.057/yr/ft2 ii. $0.040/yr/ft2 iii. $0.129/yr/ft2 iv. $0.200/yr/ft2 v. $0.029/yr/ft2 16. A 10,000 square foot building consumed the following amounts of energy last year. What is the Energy Use Index of the building in BTU per square foot per year? Natural Gas 5,000 therms/year Electricity 60,000 kWh/year i. 7,500 BTU/square foot/yr ii. 88,000 BTU/square foot/yr iii. 81,500 BTU/square foot/yr iv. 70,500 BTU/square foot/yr v. 700,000 BTU/square foot/yr 17. Assuming that adding 2 inches of fiberglass insulation drops the U-value of a building from 0.24 to 0.098, calculate the annual cooling savings per square foot from the data given below: 2,000 cooling degree days; Cooling COP = 2.5; Electrical cost $0.05/kWh i. $0.10/ft2-yr ii. $0.25/ft2-yr iii. $0.04/ft2-yr iv. $0.59/ft2-yr v. $0.02/ft2-yr 18. How much fuel is wasted if 100 pounds per hour of condensate at 30 psia saturated liquid is drained to the sewer and is made up with water at 60 F. Assume the boiler is 80% efficient and ignore blowdown effects. i. 12,090 BTU/hr ii. 15,200 BTU/hr iii. 18,000 BTU/hr iv. 23,850 BTU/hr v. 21,800 BTU/hr
19. Select the equipment best suited to efficient air-to-air heat exchange and humidity control in the HVAC system of a large office building: i. Heat pipe ii. Radiation recuperator iii. Rotary sensible heat wheel iv. Plate and frame heat exchanger v. Run around heat exchanger loop 20. Select the equipment best suited to extract heat from the exhaust (temperature over 2,000 deg F) of a glass melting furnace: i. Radiation recuperator ii. Heat pump iii. Shell and tube heat exchanger iv. Rotary heat wheel v. Heat pipe bundle 21. Chilled water reset saves energy because the energy required in refrigeration compressors is a function of the chilled water's leaving temperature. i. True ii. False 22. The difference between the setting at which the controller operates to one position and the setting at which it changes to the other is known as the: i. Throttling range ii. Offset iii. Differential iv. Control Point 23. An all-electric facility pays $100,000 annually for energy. The compressed air system has energy costs of $20,000 per year. The system air pressure can be lowered by 10 psi. Approximately how much will be saved annually? i. $20,000 ii. $10,000 iii. $5,000 iv. $2,000 v. $1,000 24. With a load leveling TES strategy, a building manager will i. Not operate the chiller during peak hours ii. Essentially base load the chiller (i.e., operate at high load most of the time) iii. Operate only during the peaking times iv. Operate in the off season 25. A large commercial building will be retrofitted with a closed-loop water to air heat pump system. Individual meters will show costs to each department. Demand billing is a small part of the total electrical cost. Would you recommend a TES? i. Yes ii. No
26. A building presently has the following lighting system: Present System Type: 196 mercury vapor light fixtures Size: 250 watt/lamp (285 watt/fixture, including ballast) Lamp Life: 20,000 hours/lamp Lamp Cost: $44.00/lamp Output: 10,000 lumens/lamp You have chosen to replace the existing system with the following: Proposed System Type: 140 high pressure sodium fixtures Size: 150 watt/lamp (185 watt/fixture) Lamp Life: 24,000 hours/lamps Lamp Cost: $54.00/lamp Output: 15,000 lumens/lamp The facility operates 24 hours/day. Approximate the heating effect if the heating system efficiency is 80%, fuel costs $5.00 per million BTUs and there are 200 heating days (not heating degree days) per year. i. $4,445/year ii. $2,548/year iii. $6,986/year iv. $5,289/year v. $3,070/year 27. A program available at no-cost from a US Department of Energy website that displays cost and efficiency data on electric motors is: i. Freeware ii. Building Life Cycle Cost iii. MotorMaster iv. 3EPlus v. QuickPEP 28. Given the same amount of excess air and the same flue gas temperature, which fuel provides the highest combustion efficiency? i. Natural Gas ii. No. 2 Fuel Oil iii. No. 6 Fuel Oil 29. A boiler is rated at 30 boiler horsepower and 80% efficient. What is the input rating? i. 1,005,000 BTU/hr ii. 1,255,000 BTU/hr iii. 502, 500 BTU/hr iv. 3,628,750 BTU/hr v. 13,400,000 BTU/hr 30. In a steam system, several things can happen to the condensate. Which of these is the best from the standpoint of energy expense? i. Drain condensate to sewer ii. Recover condensate in insulated system at atmospheric pressure iii. Recover condensate in un-insulated system at boiler pressure iv. Recover condensate in insulated system at or near boiler pressure
31. Select the item from the list below which would most likely have the shortest payback with energy savings. i. Replacing asbestos boiler insulation ii. Installing condensate return system iii. Repairing air leaks or steam leaks iv. Installing heat wheel v. Installing combustion air preheater 32. Estimate the waste heat available in Btu/minute from a refinery flare gas leaving a process unit at 800 deg F if it is flowing at 1,000 cfm and weighs 0.08 lb/cubic foot. Its specific heat or heat content over the temperature range is 0.3 Btu/lbF and you should assume the waste gas could be reduced in temperature to 250 deg F. i. 178,000 Btu/min ii. 165,000 Btu/min iii. 44,000 Btu/min iv. 19,200 Btu/min v. 13,200 Btu/min 33. In calculating heat flows, metal generally provides little resistance to heat flow compared to insulation or even air films. i. True ii. False 34. Water at 72 deg F is supplied to a 100 psia boiler. 1000 lb/hr of steam from the boiler is supplied to a process and the condensate is sent to the sewer drain. What fraction of the energy added in the boiler is lost with the condensate, relative to the 72 F water entering the boiler? i. 100% ii. 75% iii. 34% iv. 29% v. 23% 35. A 100 HP rotary screw air-compressor generates heat equivalent to about: i. 1000 Btu/hr ii. 12,000 Btu/hr iii. 100,000 Btu/hr iv. 250,000 Btu/hr 36. An optimum start is a control function that: i. Shuts off the outside ventilation air during start up of the building ii. Shuts off equipment for duty cycling purpose iii. Senses outdoor and indoor temperatures to determine the start time needed to heat or cool down a building to desired temperatures iv. Starts randomly 37. Which of the following could be used to detect failed steam traps? i. Ultrasonic equipment to listen to the steam trap operation ii. Infrared camera to detect the change in temperature iii. Real time MMS using conductance probes iv. All of the above
38. Calculate the group re-lamping interval for T12 lamp fixtures that annually operate for 4,160 hrs with rated life of 15,000 hrs (assuming replacements at 70% of rated life). i. 3.5 years ii. 4.0 years iii. 1.0 year iv. 2.5 years
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