System Deep Dives
Roll up your sleeves. Each course takes a major energy-using system — boilers, HVAC, motors, compressed air and more — and teaches how it works, where it wastes energy, and how to fix it.
20 courses · 20 available now
Energy Audits
Plan and deliver a credible audit: walk-throughs, measurement, data analysis, and a prioritised register of opportunities.
Start course →Economic Analysis of Engineering Projects
Beyond payback: time value of money, NPV, IRR, life-cycle costing and how to compare competing projects fairly.
Start course →Boilers & Fired Systems
Combustion, excess air, flue-gas losses, blowdown and the practical levers for boiler-plant efficiency.
Start course →Steam & Condensate Systems
Steam traps, flash steam, insulation, condensate return and distribution losses across a steam system.
Start course →CHP & Cogeneration
When combined heat and power makes sense, sizing to heat demand, and assessing economic and carbon performance.
Start course →Waste Heat Recovery
Find, grade and reuse waste heat — economisers, recuperators, heat exchangers and heat pumps.
Start course →Pinch Analysis & Process Integration
Optimise heat exchange across a whole process at once: composite curves, the pinch point, minimum utility targets, network design and the economics of the approach temperature.
Start course →Buildings & the Building Envelope
Fabric, air-tightness, thermal bridging and glazing (U-values, g-values, low-E) — controlling loads at source.
Start course →HVAC Systems
Heating, ventilation and cooling: system types, controls, setpoints, free cooling and demand-based operation.
Start course →Insulation Systems
Heat-loss calculation, economic thickness, lagging of pipework and vessels, and surface-temperature safety.
Start course →Motors, Drives & Electrical Energy Management
Motor efficiency classes, variable-speed drives, sizing, power factor and managing electrical demand.
Start course →Compressed Air Systems
The most expensive utility on site: leaks, pressure, control strategy, heat recovery and right-sizing.
Start course →Lighting
Lux levels, LED retrofits, controls, daylighting and lighting design for energy and comfort.
Start course →Thermal Energy Storage
Shifting heating and cooling loads in time — sensible, latent and the economics of storage.
Start course →Renewable Energy
Solar PV, solar thermal, wind, heat pumps and biomass — sizing, integration and on-site generation.
Start course →Control Systems & BMS
Control loops, sensors and actuators, BMS strategies for buildings, and process control on industrial sites.
Start course →Commissioning for Energy Management
Commissioning and re-commissioning so systems actually deliver designed performance — and keep delivering it.
Start course →Refrigeration & Heat Pump Systems
How air conditioning, refrigeration and heat pumps work; thermodynamic cycles, efficiency, optimization.
Start course →Maintenance of Energy Systems
How maintenance regimes protect efficiency, and how to embed energy into planned and reactive maintenance.
Start course →Measurement & Verification (M&V)
Prove the savings: IPMVP options, baselines, adjustments and avoiding the traps that overstate results.
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