Concepts of Energy Auditing & Management

Energy audit definitions, concept and types; energy index and cost index; Pie charts, Sankey diagrams and load profiles; energy conservation schemes; Energy audit of industries and energy saving potential; process industry and thermal power station; Building energy audit; Energy Conservation Building Codes (ECBC-2017)

Principles of energy management; Organizing an energy management program: initiating, planning, controlling, promoting; Monitoring and reporting; Energy manager: qualities and functions; questionnaire and checklist for top management

Energy efficient motors: factors affecting efficiency and loss distribution; Constructional details, characteristics, variable speed, voltage variation and unbalance, over-motoring; Motor energy audit; Lighting system design and practice, lighting control and lighting energy audit

Power factor: methods of improvement and location of capacitors; Power factor with non-linear loads; effect of harmonics; power factor motor controllers; Energy instruments: watt meter, data loggers, thermocouples; Pyrometers, lux meters and tong testers

Economic analysis: depreciation methods, time value of money, rate of return; Present worth method, replacement analysis, life-cycle costing analysis; Simple payback method and net present value method; Power factor correction, lighting, applications of life-cycle costing and return on investment