Energy Auditing and Management
PostgraduateMUR-PEN5942025
Previously MUR-EENV594
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- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- Subject may require attendance
- Entry requirements
- Prior study needed
- Duration
- 13 weeks
- Start dates
- 24 Feb 2025
- Loan available
- FEE-HELP available
Energy Auditing and Management
About this subject
At the completion of this subject, students will be able to:
- Set up an effective energy plan based on sound principles.
- Analyse the economic viability of energy management options.
- Demonstrate how tariffs apply in energy management schemes.
- Apply the theory and practice of energy audits, including an analysis of energy use and opportunities for energy saving energy.
- Discuss opportunities for energy management in building design, road transport, air conditioning, lighting, and industrial plant.
- What is Energy management - objectives and potential
- Energy management: economic evaluation - principles/electricity and metering
- Energy costs and tariffs - electricity and gas
- Energy audits
- Building design - options for energy management/air conditioning
- Ice storage for air conditioning
- Energy management - lighting/electric motors and machines
- Industrial systems - steam and compressed air
- Industrial systems - boilers and furnaces/heat recovery
- Energy management control systems/road transport
This is a unit about energy management and in particular, how to minimise energy use, without reducing services, by using energy more efficiently and by reducing waste. An energy audit plays a large role in informing the energy management process. The unit delivers knowledge surrounding the process of implementing energy management programs in commercial and industrial companies. The unit begins with a general description of energy management programs and the framework and standards for implanting such programs before introducing some of the tools and techniques of energy management, including energy auditing and energy data analysis. The unit then discusses the options for energy management for commercial and industrial premises in a range of areas.
Please Note: All students studying at Murdoch University will need to complete the compulsory unit, Murdoch Academic Passport (MAP100), which only takes 2-3 hours to complete online. Find out more: http://goto.murdoch.edu.au/MurdochAcademicPassport.
The assessment for this suybject comprises of the following elements: on-line quizzes, assignment, project and examination. Collectively the assessment tasks provide realistic examples of activities students would undertake as graduates in the workplace if they pursued a career in energy management. Feedback on assessment components is provided by the unit co-ordinators and mentors.
- Invigilated Examination (40%)
- Mid-semester test (invigilated) (20%)
- Online quizzes (10%)
- Project (30%)
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Entry requirements
Equivalent subjects
You should not enrol in this subject if you have successfully completed any of the following subject(s) because they are considered academically equivalent:
MUR-EENV594 (Not currently available)
Others
Knowledge of high school physics is required.
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
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