Energy Management

• • 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

You are recommended to have completed the following subjects(s) or have equivalent knowledge before starting this subject:

• MUR-EENV592-Energy in Society (No longer available)

Others

Knowledge of high school physics is required.

Additional requirements

No additional requirements

A study of the efficient use of energy in buildings, factories and transport systems; techniques for measuring and monitoring energy use; approaches to optimising the performance of electrical appliances and systems; design principles to minimise energy use in buildings and devices and an assessment of the relative costs of energy conservation and energy production in various applications. The subject will include an energy audit and a project report on the results and conclusions.

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.

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.

• Mid-Semester assignment (20%)
• Energy Audit (30%)
• Online Quizzes (10%)
• Open book timed online exam (40%)