Professional Certificate in HVAC & Piping Engineering

Explore various HVAC equipment, including air handling units with centrifugal fans and filters such as HEPA, compare single-skin and double-skin designs, and review cooling towers and insulation materials.

Apply the velocity reduction method to set velocities at 6 m/s and 3 m/s, analyze 420 mm diameter A and B, and evaluate friction totaling 37.6 pascals.

Apply the equal friction method to size ducts by matching selected velocity to friction losses, using charts and tables to determine diameter and calculate air changes per hour.

Identify the total cooling load as the sum of sensible and latent gains from external and internal sources. Highlight sealed-method calculations and key factors like ventilation, infiltration, and lighting.

Learn to compute cooling loads using energy balance, indoor and outdoor temperatures, u-values, and sensible heat through walls, roof, and windows to determine required cooling capacity.

Identify types of piping services in buildings, including cold water installation, hot water generation distribution, drainage, space heating, ventilation and air conditioning, and firefighting, gas, and disposal systems.

Explore design options for water distribution systems—branding system, grid system, loop system, and combined system—assessing advantages, disadvantages, and essential criteria like velocity, pressure, head loss, and pipe sizes.

Determine pipe flow rate and heads at the network outlet while ensuring continuity and energy balance. Apply Hardy Cross, loop, nodal, and Newton-Raphson methods to solve pipe network problems.

Explore how fluid friction causes energy loss in piping systems through viscous resistance, duct dimensions, surface roughness, and flow configuration, and how to estimate energy requirements for flood-related applications.

Learn how energy losses occur in pipe systems by applying Bernoulli principle and analyzing hydraulic head, major and minor losses, and friction through fittings and valves.

Minor losses arise from sudden expansion, sudden contraction, and pipe bends; the total is the sum of these losses, with head loss computed via loss coefficients to guide pipe sizing.

Explore how to represent local losses in piping using equivalent length, resistance coefficient (k), and the three-k method, including calculating head loss from fittings as equivalent lengths and k-values.

Examine the international piping design standard B31.3 and related codes used in petroleum refinery and chemical plants, covering design basis, material classes, and safety considerations.

Explore pipe system configurations, including socket welded, flange, elbow, and groove configurations, compare welded and threaded connections, and examine utility water threading standards and male or female threads.

Apply pipe wall thickness and pipe support calculations using thin-wall vessel formulas and beam theory, with B31.1 and B31.3 corrections, to assess deflection and allowable stress.

Master piping layout design through detailed equipment layouts, isometric and vessel trims, and develop P&ID drawings from SP and ID software, including pipe sizes, materials, and instrumentation.

Apply pipe stress and flexibility analysis using CASEAR-II software and Pisces, evaluating stresses under various loadings against governing codes, accounting for temperature growth, supports, and terminal loading.

Explore the main types of air conditioning systems, including window, split, centralized, and district cooling, with coverage of single-unit setups, floor or wall mounted splits, and multi-head configurations.

Identify and understand duct ancillaries—volume control damper, backdraft damper, fire damper, flexible connector—and how they regulate air volume, enable one-way airflow, automatically close during fire, and connect near vibration-prone equipment.

Explore motorized valves, strainers, double regulating valves, isolating valves, self actuated valves, regulating valves, temperature gauges, condensate drains, thermostats, and support hangers used in central heating systems.