Welcome to this course, the third in a five part series for energy auditors! In this course you’ll be introduced to energy fundamentals. This course in the series is particularly focussed at those who are new to energy auditing, or who don’t have a background in mechanical and electrical engineering.
Course overview
The course has 5 sections:
- Introduction – covering the first law of thermodynamics and fundamental energy calculations.
- Characteristics of water and air. Since the heating or moving of water and air are such large energy users, understanding their characteristics is important knowledge for energy auditors.
- Characteristics of fuels and combustion. This section has a focus on heating values.
- Electricity and its characteristics. Essential knowledge for the energy auditor.
- “Various” – covering heat transfer and avoiding the easy to make mistake even the smartest auditors make.
Learning outcomes
- Can apply the first law of thermodynamics.
- Can express energy use in a range of energy units.
- Can calculate thermal energy flow.
- Can explain how heat is transferred.
- Can undertake heat transfer calculations.
- Understands AC and DC power.
- Understands power factor and power quality.
- Can calculate end use efficiency.
- Understands higher heating value and lower heating value.
- Understands sensible and latent heat.
- Can source emission factors and determine greenhouse gas emissions from the use of energy.
Certification
Each section of the course has a short quiz after it. You don’t need to complete the quiz to progress to the next lesson, but if you do, and pass all the quizzes, you’ll get a certificate of achievement on course completion, and be issued with a digital badge that you can put on your Linkedin profile or elsewhere.
Before you start the first lesson read this to get the most from the course
Before you start spend a few moments jotting down exactly what you want to learn, and focus on that. Don’t feel you need to complete each lesson. To make it easy to do this each lesson has a summary at the start of each section which you can skim through and decide if that lesson is for you.
Whenever you finish watching a video, you should mark the lesson complete so that you can track your progress.
In some lessons you may be asked to write your thoughts in the comment box below the lesson. Please do this to get the most from the lesson, and you might see some interesting comments from other students too.
If this is your first course on Sustemy, or you haven’t taken a course for a while, please watch the video below which covers:
- Progressing through the course. You don’t have to do each lesson one by one, and its OK if you skip lessons. However, if you want to get a certificate of competency, you need to pass all the quizzes and assessments.
- Mark complete each lesson as you finish it, in order to update the progress bar.
- Use of the video controls, to adjust the playback speed and to view subtitles (if available).
- Viewing your certificate on completion.
- Engaging with your instructor and other students.
If there is something you are unsure about, or if you have a question, please put your request in the comment box.
Discussion
Join the course discussion forum here!
Webinar
Click here to see the recorded webinar
Contact Instructor
Contact Bruce Rowse
