Understanding and Designing Chilled-Beam Systems PDF

This is an archived recording of the 2018 online version of the course. Continuing education credits and/or professional development hours are not available.

This course is primarily designed for mechanical engineers with at least three years of experience in the design of commercial HVAC systems. Chilled-beam systems save on cooling and transport energy by decoupling most or all of the space sensible loads from the air-distribution system and removing them with water, a much more efficient heat transfer medium.Attendees will review HVAC fundamentals as they relate to chilled-beam system design. Attendees will understand the system benefit, be able to identify suitable applications, and design chilled-beam systems to optimize the energy and operational benefits. Properly identifying and controlling equipment and components that optimize design are also major components of this course. Efficient design of a chilled-beam system requires some departure from practices and conventions used to design all-air VAV systems.