An advanced heating course covering large commercial-industrial burners, light commercial rooftop units, building and plant commercial-industrial heating controls, equipment, and systems. Discusses manufacturer’s equipment and instructions, planned service checking, and troubleshooting. Also covers repair and replacement of components using appropriate service tools and instruments. Laboratory activities.
Goals, Topics, and Objectives
To prepare students to function effectively as multi-skilled service technicians on light commercial gas and oil heating systems and equipment, hot water and steam heating systems and equipment and electrical, pneumatic, electronic, and digital control equipment and systems.
- Rooftop Systems
- Building & Plant Commercial-Industrial Heating Systems
- Large Burner-Boiler-Flame Safeguard Systems
- Basic Commercial-Industrial Heating Principles and Practices
- Commercial-Industrial Heating Equipment and Systems Safety, Codes, Standards, and Environment Requirements
- Commercial-Industrial Heating Technician Operation and Maintenance Areas
- Light Commercial Heating System Operating and Efficiency Assessment Principles
- Commercial Air-Conditioning System Operating and Efficiency Assessment Principles and Practices
- Commercial Mechanical RACH System Principles and Practices
- Commercial-Industrial Heating System Piping Principles
- Commercial Equipment and Systems: Analyzing Function, Calculating Capacity, Checking Operation Against Specifications
- Commercial-Industrial HVAC Controls
- Commercial-Industrial HVAC Control Standards
- Identify the best practices, standards and the characteristics for operation and maintenance to show acceptable familiarity with typical power and process systems and equipment
- Test, analyze, and troubleshoot heating equipment to industry standards*
- Perform installation, start-up checking, and operational tests as required by manufacturer's specifications and local and federal codes*
- Define the operation of gas-fired and oil-fired commercial rooftop, boiler, and other large burner systems
- Install and service the heating systems of packaged air-conditioning units, commercial and industrial oil and gas burners, and large heating unit flame safeguard control systems
- Size and layout fuel pipes for multiple applications*
- Apply manufacturer's schematics, diagrams, and technical literature to service a unit or system*
- Sketch diagrams, mechanical or electrical, and large rooftop and burner systems, identifying the function of each component
- Apply federal, state, and local regulations for transporting, handling, and disposing of hazardous materials
- Apply the principles of light commercial heating including fuel system design, air distribution, design, and the operation of electric resistance, forced air, hydronic, and steam heating systems
This course is being deactivated as part of the catalog cleanup project in 23/WI. It is not part of any active program and has not been offered in 3 or more years.
Assessment and Requirements
Labs, Quizzes, Tests, Assignments.
To be determined by instructor.