Solar Water Heaters
COURSE NO: R04-016
PDH CREDIT: 4
COURSE PROVIDER: Elie Tawil, P.E., LEED AP
PRICE: $136 (CAD) (Save on this price with Pre-Pay-PDH Discounts!)
Course Highlights
This online engineering CPD course provides a thorough overview of solar water heaters, focusing on their economic and energy impacts.
This course offers an in-depth examination of residential water heating systems, covering conventional storage, tankless (demand-type), heat pump, and solar water heating systems. It emphasizes the principles of operation, energy efficiency, heat transfer, and the economics of various systems. Additionally, it outlines the process for evaluating system performance, selecting suitable technologies, and understanding installation, maintenance, and regulatory requirements.
Moreover, this course addresses solar integration, including both active and passive systems, heat-transfer fluids, heat exchangers, storage tank configurations, collector types, and sizing systems to meet household demand. It also discusses methods for assessing energy efficiency using metrics such as SEF, SF, and UEF, estimating operating costs, and calculating payback periods for solar water heating investments.
This 4 CPD online course is designed for energy engineers and other technical professionals seeking to expand their knowledge of solar water heaters.
This course offers an in-depth examination of residential water heating systems, covering conventional storage, tankless (demand-type), heat pump, and solar water heating systems. It emphasizes the principles of operation, energy efficiency, heat transfer, and the economics of various systems. Additionally, it outlines the process for evaluating system performance, selecting suitable technologies, and understanding installation, maintenance, and regulatory requirements.
Moreover, this course addresses solar integration, including both active and passive systems, heat-transfer fluids, heat exchangers, storage tank configurations, collector types, and sizing systems to meet household demand. It also discusses methods for assessing energy efficiency using metrics such as SEF, SF, and UEF, estimating operating costs, and calculating payback periods for solar water heating investments.
This 4 CPD online course is designed for energy engineers and other technical professionals seeking to expand their knowledge of solar water heaters.
Learning Objectives
This PE continuing education course is intended to provide you with the following specific knowledge and skills:
- Knowing the differences between active and passive solar water heating systems and their applications
- Learning to identify heat-transfer fluids, their properties, and their suitability for various climates
- Understanding the role of heat exchangers, including their types, designs, and sizing for optimal performance
- Familiarizing yourself with storage tank configurations and solar collector types, such as flat-plate, integral collector-storage, and evacuated-tube collectors
- Understanding tankless and demand-type water heaters based on flow rate and temperature rise requirements
- Learning how to determine the sizing of solar water heating systems using collector area and storage volume for household demand
- Knowing how to evaluate the energy efficiency of water heating systems using metrics like SEF, SF, and UEF
- Familiarizing yourself with water heaters and solar systems in terms of cost, energy savings, and lifecycle efficiency
- Understanding the application of building codes, zoning regulations, and installation safety requirements
- Learning best practices for installation, maintenance, and contractor selection
Course Document
In this professional engineering CEU course, you need to review the course document titled, “Solar Water Heaters”, which is based on the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) website.
To view, print and study the course document, please click on the following link(s):
SOLAR WATER HEATERS (1.2 MB)Course Quiz
Once you complete your course review, you need to take a multiple-choice quiz consisting of twenty (20) questions to earn 4 CPD credits. The quiz will be based on the entire document.
The minimum passing score is 70%. There is no time limit on the quiz, and you can take it multiple times until you pass at no additional cost.
Certificate of Completion
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