ENRG 55A: HVAC Fundamentals and Components

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Program Description:

The Commercial Building Energy Analysis and Audits program at City College of San Francisco prepares students to conduct energy audits, evaluate building systems for efficiency, analyze energy data, and apply financial and business strategies in audit reporting. The program is divided into 15 modular courses designed for a community college level student. These courses are adaptable and can be selected, reorganized, or offered in a shorter format to suit individuals with experience in construction, architecture, HVAC, building operations, or mechanical engineering.

Course Description:

This course, from the BEST Center and City College of San Francisco, teaches the fundamentals and concepts of HVAC with an emphasis on types of equipment and conveyance. Topics covered in this course include conversion of units; concept of work power, and energy; psychrometric processes and calculations; thermodynamic laws and heat transfer principles; sensible and latent heat changes, load calculations, and more. After completing the course, students should be able to:

Describe the principles and concepts of work, power, and energy.
Describe the basic principles of thermodynamics and heat transfer.
Measure and calculate conversion of units, such as temperature, pressure, power, British Thermal Units (BTU), etc.
Analyze and interpret room conditions using the psychrometric chart and software such as Trace 700 or e-Quest.
Estimate various types of heating and cooling loads as applied to buildings, rooms, and mechanical systems.
Define the purpose of various heating, cooling, and conveyance equipment.
Identify various heating, cooling, and conveyance equipment in the field.
Interpret name plate data of various heating, cooling, and conveyance equipment.

Course Contents:
Course materials include a 3-page course syllabus, a 5-page course outline record, and three PowerPoint presentations. The syllabus includes a course description, learning outcomes, course topics, and a list of assignments.

The course outline record includes a course justification, a course description, major learning outcomes, course topics, and information on instructional methodology.

The PowerPoint presentations include information on course topics.

For orientation purposes, viewers should begin with ENRG 55A_Course Outline_cc.pdf, which offers a description of the course as well as an overview of topics covered.

Below is a list of the files contained within the .zip attachment. The size of each file is included in parenthesis.

ENRG-55A-HVAC-Fund-Components (11 files, 12.7 MB)