UMass Amherst

Fan System Assessment Tool Qualified Specialist Training
12-14 February, 2008
| 07:30 AM-05:30 PM
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
The Registration for This Event is CLOSED
Training Overview
Class participants will:
1. Estimate operating costs and identify optimization opportunities for a fan system case study
2. Understand the use of manometers, pitot tubes and other instruments as measurement tools in a fan performance test
3. Develop a measurement plan as part of a performance test
4. Understand how FSAT handles gas temperature and density
5. Describe how to manage files in FSAT
6. Understand how to use FSAT to get the greatest benefit when modeling fan systems
7. Analyze field data to establish FSAT inputs
8. Input field data results and use FSAT to evaluate fan systems
9. Demonstrate competence in using FSAT to pre-qualify good potential fan system optimization opportunities
Introduction

Qualified Specialist Exams
Two exams will be given during the training: the oral exam and the certification exam.
The oral exam will take place at the end of the first day. Participants will be asked to perform three tasks:
1. Measure the speed of a rotating shaft using a strobe tachometer;
2. Connect hoses from a pitot tube to a manometer and take two velocity pressure measurements in a sample duct system;
3. Look at a diagram or model of a fan system and identify appropriate measurement planes.

The certification exam will be held at the conclusion of the course; you will be given 4 hours to complete the exam. The exam is open-book/open-note/open-computer. Feel free to bring any reference materials to the course to use during the certification exam.

A block of rooms is being reserved at the University of Massachusetts Campus Center Hotel.
Hotel Contact Information:
Toll Free: 1-877-822-2110
Phone: 413-549-6000
Fax: 413-545-1210
Email: reservations@mail.aux.umass.edu
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Benefits
By successfully completing this advanced training you will be recognized by DOE as a Qualified Specialist in the use of the Fan System Assessment Tool. As a Qualified Specialist, you can then apply the tool to help your plant or industrial customers identify ways to improve fan system efficiency.
Who Should Attend
Completion of the Fan System Assessment End-User Training is strongly encouraged prior to taking this Qualified Specialist Course.
Please consider registering for the end-user training on Monday, February 11 if you have not previously taken this course.

The Standards of Knowledge are a list of the prerequisite knowledge that is needed to pass the Qualified Specialist certification exam. The standards will be reviewed during the course, but not taught as new concepts.
1. System Effect – Quantitatively analyze the impact of system effect for various conditions (inlet, outlet)
2. Fan Application – Explain the characteristics of fan impeller types and select an impeller type for a given situation
3. Fan and System Curves – Explain the interaction between the fan curve and system curve
4. Fan System Efficiency – Understand how to calculate fan system efficiency and its components (fan efficiency, motor efficiency, drive efficiency, control efficiency and installation efficiency)
5. Operating Costs – Know how to calculate the operating cost of a fan
6. Optimization Opportunities – Identify optimization opportunities for a fan system case study
7. Affinity Laws – Apply the simplified affinity laws to calculate the new performance of a fan (flow, pressure, power) when rotational speed is changed
8. Specific Speed – Understand this concept as it relates to flow and pressure of a fan system
9. Fan System Optimization Techniques – Know the techniques that can be used to optimize a system
10. Fan System Controls – Understand the different ways to control fans and the efficiency of each control method
11. FSAT Software – Understand FSAT inputs and outputs
12. Psychrometric Principles – Be familiar with these principles and with some method to calculate air density (manual calculation, software)
13. Fan System Performance – Understand the use of manometers, pitot tubes and other instrumentation; be familiar with Bernoulli’s Theorem and how to perform calculations; develop a measurement plan as part of a performance test
Agenda
Day One Morning
1.
 Fan System Optimization Review
2.
 Instrumentation Review
3.
 Fan System Measurement Plan Requirements Review
Day One Afternoon
4.
 Air Density Considerations in FSAT
5.
 FSAT Log Files and Summary Files
6.
 FSAT Fan System Evaluation – Fan #1
Day Two Morning
7.
 Results of FSAT Fan System Evaluation – Fan #1
8.
 Getting the Most From FSAT
9.
 Fan System Performance Test Data Analysis – Fan #2
10.
 FSAT Fan System Evaluation – Fan #2
Day Two Afternoon
11.
 Q&A and Review
12.
Certification exam – Take Home FSAT Problem – Fan #3
13.
 Certification exam – Oral exam 15 minutes per student
Day Three Morning
14.
 Certification exam – Written test 4 Hours
Speaker
Ronald G. Wroblewski, PE
Workshop Cost and Registration
All attendees are asked to pay for registration to reserve a spot. Registration includes: program materials and lunch.

$200.00 per person for Commercial and Industrial Customers of Cape Light Compact, National Grid (MA, RI and NH), NSTAR, and WMECO.
Cost for all others $300.00 per person
Registration must be done before 6 February, 2008
Advance registration is required!
Cancellations 5 days prior to event are non-refundable.
Payment can be made by credit online or by check
Checks will be accepted at the door.
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