Natural Gas Systems Efficiency

Alternative title: Gas Technologies for Energy Efficiency

We have heard and read a lot about how important it is to conserve electricity in our homes, businesses, and communities. Equally important is the efficient utilization of natural gas as a fuel used in heating and other commercial and industrial technologies and applications.

This course introduces essential concepts as they relate to different technologies and applications that use natural gas as a fuel. In particular, we explore human comfort, heat loss from conditioned space, principles of mechanical heating and heat pumps, the combustion process, boilers and burners, including boiler testing and tune-up, efficient boiler control, operations, and maintenance, and other energy efficiency ideas and suggestions for boilers, constant air volume air handling systems, variable air volume (VAV) systems, and indoor air quality.