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2024-2025 University Catalog 
    
2024-2025 University Catalog

ME 50103 - Industrial Energy Assessment: Tools And Applications


Credit Hours: 3.00.  This course synthesizes advanced energy efficiency, energy auditing, and energy assessment methods and practices. Several types of industrial audits will be analyzed with respect to the methods, tools (hand and software), and industrial application. Topics include: the audit process for energy, industrial productivity, and waste stream audits; audit components: energy bill analysis and economic analysis: audit system mechanics related to building envelop, electrical system, HVAC system, waste heat recovery, lighting, cogeneration, and other prevalent industrial systems; and measurement instrumentation issues for each industrial system. Students will enhance learning from a class project, which requires completion of an industrial scale energy audit.  Permission of instructor required.  Typically offered Spring.Credits: 3.00