Course Description:

This course explores how to comply with energy efficiency and its regulations according to international codes and specifications.  Plant equipment such as boilers, turbines, pumps and heat exchangers will be treated in details

Course Goal:

To enhance the participants’ knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to comply with energy efficiency and its regulations according, to international codes and specifications

Course Objectives:

By the end of this course the participant will be able to:

1. Understand of energy supply and demand.
2. Identify conventional energy sources.
3. Be familiar with conversion efficiency.
4. Understand efficiency losses for boilers, turbines, pumps and heat exchangers.
5. Correct the thermal inefficiencies of power plants.

Course Outline:

1. World of energy: supply and demand.
2. Conventional energy sources.
3. Energy and environment.
4. Electrical energy.
5. Conversion efficiency: How far can we go?
   • Frozen efficiencies scenario
   • Where we are headed scenario
   • Cost-effective efficiency scenario
6. How to measure the efficiency of power plant equipment:

• Boilers – Turbines – Pumps – Heat exchangers

1. Efficiency losses for boilers, turbines, pumps and heat exchangers.
2. Correcting the thermal inefficiencies of power plants.
3. Efficient and effective use of power plant systems and equipment.
4. Case study.

Who Can Benefit?

Power plant engineers, technicians and other personnel interested in reducing energy loss and environmental problems.