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Introduction To Energy Management

Subject : engineering
Instructions:
  • Answer 25 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The energy consumed to maintain building temperature at its desired set point is approximately equivalent to heat lost through ___and ___in the heating season or gained in the cooling season.






2. A basic energy accounting system has three parts: ________ - an ________ and a ________.






3. ________ is the art and science of tracing Btu and energy dollar flow through an organization.






4. The engineering model attempts to remedy the deficiency in the statistical model by developing complete ________ to determine the amount of energy theoretically required.






5. A ________ to energy management is required to ensure that many important activities will be examined and optimized.






6. ________ is a vital element in the successful execution of an energy management program - and management should do all it can to encourage creativity rather than stifle it.






7. A very basic measurement of a facility's energy performance is called the ________.






8. In fact - for most ________ - ________ - and ________ energy management is one of the most promising profit improvement- cost reduction programs available today.






9. MT&R is built around one key statistical technique:___analysis of the variance between energy consumption predicted by an energy performance model (EPM) - and the actual measured consumption.






10. A good energy accounting system is implemented in three phases: (1) ________ - (2) ________ and (3) ________.






11. Presently - many businesses and industries are adopting a ________ strategy for improving their operations.






12. Although energy management cannot solve all the nation's problems - perhaps it can ease the strain on our environment and give us time to develop ________.






13. The United States adopted ________ - and ________which established a new trade program for sulfur oxides and nitrous and mercury emissions from power plants.






14. The traditional unit of measure of electrical energy is the kilowatt- hour; in terms of Btu's - ________ is equivalent to 3412 Btu.






15. ________ are vitally needed today. One important reason is that energy management helps the nation face some of its biggest problems.






16. In fact - energy available from ________ has almost always proven to be the most economical source of 'new' energy.






17. The most important single ingredient for successful implementation and operation of an energy management program is ________.






18. Although the electrical energy at its point of end- use always contains ________ - it takes considerable more than 3412 Btus of fuel to produce a kWh of electrical energy.






19. Energy represents the ability to do work - and the standard engineering measure for energy used in this book is the ________ or ________.






20. There are two ways to develop the energy budget: ________ or ________.






21. Where ever possible - data should be recorded in physically measurable units (typically the units of purchase such as ____ - ___ - ___ - ___ - ___ - and ___.






22. To ________ - all of the energy used in the facility must be identified - the total cost of that energy tabulated - and the total number of square feet of conditioned space determined.






23. Meters should have ________; which is defined as the ability to measure accurately over the entire range of energy flow involved.






24. Time and again - energy management has shown that it can substantially reduce energy cost and energy consumption through ________.






25. ________ - the main contributor to potential global climate change - is produced by the combustion of fossil fuel - primarily to provide transportation and energy services.