Critical Systems Engineering

Designing and Operating Mechanical & Electrical Systems for Mission Critical Facilities

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Course curriculum

1. Introduction
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2. Table of Contents
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3. What Are Critical Systems?
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4. Why Are Critical Systems Important?
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5. Who Is This Course For?
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6. Why I made This Course
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7. Facility Life Cycle
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8. Good Design Comes From Clear Requirements
9. Redundancy
10. Concurrent Maintainability
11. Critical Systems Engineering Overview
1. Electrical Overview
2. Electricity Fundamentals
3. Electricity Basics: Voltage
4. Electricity Basics: Current
5. Electricity Basics: Resistance
6. Electricity Basics: Ohm's Law
7. Electricity Basics: Apparent Power vs. Real Power
8. Electricity Basics: Power Factor
9. Power Factor Types
10. Basic Circuit Terminology
11. Life Cycle of Electricity
12. Three Phase Power
13. Creating Three Phase Power
14. Transformers
15. Calculating Three Phase Power Capacity
16. Electricity Fundamentals
1. Power Quality Overview
2. Transients
3. Voltage Sag, Swell, Undervoltage, Overvoltage
4. Brownout
5. Blackout
6. Voltage Unbalance
7. Linear vs. Non-Linear Loads
8. Harmonics
9. Triplen Harmonics
10. Total Harmonic Distortion
11. Power Quality
1. Basis of Design
2. Utility Power
3. Emergency Power
4. The Case for Standby Generators
5. Generator Applications
6. Generator Components
7. Generator Troubleshooting
8. Maintenance and Testing
9. Pull The Plug Test
10. Energy Curtailment and Demand Response
11. Fuel Storage and Delivery Overview
12. Bulk Storage Tanks
13. Fuel Piping Distribution
14. Fuel Maintenance and Polishing
15. Fuel System Configuration
16. Fuel Distribution Reliability
17. Fuel Quality Assurance
18. Emergency Generators
1. Automatic Transfer Switch Overview
2. ATS Start Sequence
3. ATS Features
4. Less Common ATS Applications
5. Breaker Pairs
6. Paralleling Switchgear
7. ATS Startup and Maintenance
8. Operational Considerations
9. Automatic Transfer Switches
1. Uninterruptible Power Supply Systems Overview
2. Types of Equipment Loads by Criticality
3. Double Conversion Static UPS Basics
4. UPS Modes of Operation
5. UPS Components
6. Silicon Controlled Rectifier (SCR)
7. Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor (IGBT)
8. UPS Battery Run Time
9. UPS Battery Types
10. UPS Battery Configuration
11. UPS Battery Maintenance and Monitoring
12. UPS Topology: Part 1
13. UPS Topology: Part 2
14. UPS Commissioning and Maintenance
15. Generator and UPS Coordination Issues
16. Diesel Rotary UPS (DRUPS)
17. UPS Systems
1. Static Transfer Switch Overview
2. STS Operation
3. STS Maintenance Bypass
4. Rack-Mounted STSs
5. Power Distribution Units
6. PDU Output Configurations
7. Electrical: Putting It All Together 1
8. Electrical: Putting It All Together 2
9. Electrical: Putting It All Together 3
10. Static Transfer Switches and Power Distribution Units
1. Cooling Overview
2. Stages of Heat Removal in a Data Center
3. Air Side: Typical CRAC Unit Arrangement
4. ASHRAE Standards
5. CRAC Unit Properties
6. CRAC Unit Humidity Control
7. CRAC Unit Control and Monitoring
8. Aisle Containment
9. Hot Aisle vs. Cold Aisle Containment
10. Water Side: Four Design Concepts
11. Chillers
12. Open Cooling Towers
13. Challenges With Cooling Towers
14. Air-Cooled Condensers
15. Dry Coolers
16. Economization
17. Air Side Economizer
18. Water Side Economizer
19. Cooling Redundancy
20. Learn The Fundamentals
21. Cooling
1. Fire Protection Overview
2. Fire Protection System Objectives
3. Addressable Alarm and Notification System
4. VESDA
5. Wet Sprinkler System
6. Pre-Action System Overview
7. Pre-Action System: Single vs. Double Interlock
8. Gaseous Fire Suppression: Inert Gas
9. Gaseous Fire Suppression: Chemical Clean Agent
10. Water Mist System
11. Condensed Aerosols
12. Fire Protection
1. Commissioning Overview
2. Don't Wait Until The End of the Project
3. Commissioning Start Before Construction
4. Commissioning Ramps Up Toward the End
5. Breaker Testing and Cable Testing
6. UPS Systems
7. Generators
8. Automatic Transfer Switch
9. Static Transfer Switches
10. Panelboards and Branch Circuit Monitoring
11. Transformers
12. Fire Alarm System
13. Chillers
14. Computer Room Air Conditioning Units
15. Outside Air Handling Units
16. Fan Coil Units
17. Building Management System
18. Leak Detection
19. Room Validation Test
20. Integrated Systems Test
21. Final Report
22. Commissioning
1. Monitoring and Controls Terminology
2. System Architecture
3. Graphics
4. Programs
5. Alarms
6. Trends
7. Monitoring and Controls
1. Emergency Response
2. Incident Examples
3. Improving Performance in High Stress Situations
4. Postmortem Analysis
5. Incident Management
1. Maintenance Management Overview
2. Equipment List
3. Schedules
4. Procedures
5. Vendors
6. Software
7. Maintenance Management
1. Capacity Management Overview
2. Major Systems to Monitor
3. Assumptions: Derating Breakers
4. Assumptions: Accounting for Redundancy
5. Stranded Capacity
6. Capacity Management
1. Energy Efficiency Overview
2. Retrocommissioning
3. Variable Frequency Drives
4. Higher Voltage Distribution
5. Heat Recovery
6. New Computer Monitors
7. LED Lighting Retrofit
8. Occupancy Sensors for Lighting and HVAC
9. Aisle Containment for Data Centers
10. Energy Efficiency
1. Further Education and Career Development
2. Resources
3. Course Slides

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$999.00
185 lessons
6 hours of video content

Introduction

Electricity Fundamentals

Power Quality

Emergency Generators

Automatic Transfer Switches

UPS Systems

Static Transfer Switches and Power Distribution Units

Cooling

Fire Protection

Commissioning

Monitoring and Controls

Incident Management

Maintenance Management

Capacity Management

Energy Efficiency

Conclusion

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