Comprehensive 5-Day Training Program For Energy Managers

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ABOUT THE SEMINAR
This special in-depth five-day seminar is ideal for professionals who seek a more detailed program of instruction covering the technical, economic and regulatory aspects of effective energy management. The program provides detailed coverage of all of the six training areas specified for energy managers in the Energy Policy Act, and offers a comprehensive learning and problem-solving forum for those who want a broader understanding of the latest energy cost reduction techniques and strategies.

The CEM certification process requires the submitting of a separate application and $200 application fee, which qualifies you to sit for the exam. The CEM examination is administered on day 5 of each seminar -- only to those candidates who have met the above requirements.

SEMINAR OUTLINE
THE NEED FOR ENERGY MANAGEMENT

• Building energy cost control
• Utility DSM programs and deregulation: energy efficiency and peak demand reduction
• Commercial business energy cost control
• Industrial plant operation improvement
• -- Reducing energy costs
• -- Reducing environmental emissions
• -- Improving product quality
• -- Improving plant productivity

CONDUCTING AN ENERGY AUDIT

• Purpose of the energy audit
• Facility description and data needs
• Major systems in the facility
• Data forms for recording information
• Collecting the actual data
• Identification of preliminary energy management opportunities

ENERGY AUDIT INSTRUMENTATION

• The need for instrumentation
• Light level meters
• Electric meters: voltages, current, power, energy, power factor
• Temperature-measuring instruments
• Combustion efficiency measurement
• Air flow and air leak measurement
• Thermography
• Data logging

ENERGY CODES AND STANDARDS

• Building codes
• ASHRAE standards (62, 15, 3, 90.1)
• ASME, IEEE, and other standards
• Federal legislation: NECPA, PURPA, NGPA, CAAA, NEPA of 1992
• CFC replacements: Montreal Protocol, global climate change
• National Energy Policy Act of 1992

BUILDING ENERGY USE AND PERFORMANCE

• Fuel types and costs
• Energy content of fuels
• Energy conversion factors
• Building envelope
• Natural gas purchasing
• Retail wheeling of electricity
• Major building energy use systems

ENERGY ACCOUNTING IN BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES

• Energy use index, energy cost index
• Where energy is used in facilities
• Lighting and HVAC energy use

ENERGY RATE STRUCTURES

• Identifying types of energy used
• Electric rates, gas rates
• Oil, coal, and other rates
• Steam and hot water rates
• Factors in controlling fuel costs
• Utility incentive programs

ELECTRIC RATE STRUCTURES

• Short history of electric rates
• The difference between power and energy
• Electric meters
• Components of electric rates
• Example rate structures
• Factors in controlling electric costs
• Electric utility incentive programs
• Special schedules (interruptible, TOU, realtime pricing)

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF ALTERNATIVE INVESTMENTS

• Economic decision analysis
• Simple economic measures
• The time value of money
• Present and future values
• Cost and benefit analysis
• After tax cash flows

ALTERNATIVE FINANCING

• Role of performance contracting
• Different sources (loans, stock sales, bonds, etc.)
• FEMP and alternative financing
• True lease, capital lease, bonds, etc.

WASTE HEAT RECOVERY

• Objectives: design criteria
• Types and maintenance of heat exchangers
• Recuperators; economizers

LIFE CYCLE COSTING

• Concept of life cycle costing
• Purchase costs vs. operating costs
• Example analyses
• Government standards: FEMP

FUEL SUPPLY AND FUEL SWITCHING

• Alternative fuel choices
• Technology choices: HVAC systems, boilers, heaters, industrial processes
• Benefits of deregulation: electric and gas

ELECTRICAL ENERGY MANAGEMENT

• Peak load reduction
• Power factor improvement
• Energy management control systems
• Load management
• Harmonics and other power quality issues

LIGHTING

• Basics of lighting and current lighting technologies
• New lighting technologies
• Economic evaluation of example lighting improvements
• Lighting standards
• EPA Green Lights program
• T12, T8, T5 lamps
• Compact fluorescents
• HID, sulfur lamps

MOTORS AND ADJUSTABLE SPEED DRIVES

• How motors work
• High-efficiency motors
• Examples of cost-effective motor changes
• Use of adjustable speed drives
• Example of cost-effective ASD use
• Improved motor belts and drives
• Compressed air management
• Adjustable speed drive alternatives: eddy current clutches, variable frequency drives, inlet and outlet vane control, etc.

HVAC SYSTEM

• Types of HVAC systems and new technologies
• The vapor-compression cycle
• Air conditioning loads
• Chiller improvement example
• Control, thermal storage, absorption systems

CONTROLS AND ENERGY MANAGEMENT

• Night set back
• Optimum start/stop
• Enthalpy economizers
• Temperature resets
• PID controls, pneumatic controls
• Control characteristics
• DDC

INSULATION

• Types of insulation
• Heat flow calculations
• Economic levels of insulation
• Passive thermal energy
• “Go where the action is”

BOILERS AND STEAM GENERATION

• Basics of combustion systems: excess air control
• Boiler efficiency improvement: blowdown management, condensate return, turbulators
• Combustion controls
• Waste heat recovery
• Steam traps: purpose and testing
• Process insulation
• Example of boiler improvement

COGENERATION (CHP)

• What is cogeneration
• Types of cogeneration cycles
• Examples of cost-effective use of cogen
• QF’s and deregulation
• Use of waste for fuel

MAINTENANCE

• Maintenance management systems
• Monitoring for maintenance
• Infrared photography for maintenance
• Cost of: Air, steam, gas leaks; uninsulated surfaces

ALTERNATIVE FINANCING

• Different financing methods
• Attributes of each method
• After-tax cash flow analysis

Instructor(s):
BARNEY L. CAPEHART, WARREN M. HEFFINGTON

Instructor Background:
BARNEY L. CAPEHART, Ph.D., C.E.M., is a professor emeritus of industrial and systems engineering at the University of Florida, Gainesville. He has broad experience in the commercial/industrial sector, having served as director of the University of Florida Industrial Assessment Center from 1990 to 1999. He has personally conducted over 100 audits of industrial facilities, and has assisted students in conducting audits of hundreds of office buildings, and other non-industrial facilities. He is a fellow of IEEE, IIE, and AAAS.

WARREN M. HEFFINGTON, Ph.D., P.E., C.E.M., is the founding director of the Industrial Assessment Center at Texas A&M University, which has provided over 450 industrial assessments. Dr. Heffington personally has directed about 200 industrial assessments and has supervised the review of over 300 energy audit reports for commercial and institutional buildings. He is an associate professor of mechanical engineering at Texas A&M University, where he teaches a graduate course in industrial energy management

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