MREN 506 Assignment Questions

1. Describe the fundamental goals/aspects of ISO 50001 and show how it interacts with ISO
9001 and ISO 14001. [7]
2. A large office building receives service from its electric utility at the general service demand rate
structure described below. The electric energy use and costs for this company for one month
are:
Energy Consumption = 150 000 kWh
Metered Demand = 525 kW
Find the cost of the electric bill for the month with the following rate structure: [8]
Customer cost = $ 175.00 per month
Energy cost = $ 0.30 per kWh
Fuel adjustment = $ 0.08 per kWh
Demand cost = $ 50.00 per kW per month
Taxes =Total of 14% on entire bill
3. A project to insulate a condensate return tank has been proposed. The cost to insulate the tank
is $ 250 000. It will save 140 kW and the tank operates 6 000 hours per year. If fuel costs $ 40
/GJ and the boiler is 80 % efficient. The insulation will have to be replaced in 5 years. Determine:
(i) the payback for the proposal [4]
(ii) the IRR [3]
4. A facility is operating with a demand of 2 000 kW. The 2 500 kVA transformer is fully loaded.
Determine the kVArS that are required to bring the power factor (Cos phi) back to unity. [4]
5. A facility is operating at a power factor of 70 % with a real power load of 2 000 kW. Determine
the corrective capacitance in kVAr needed to improve the facility power factor to 90 %. [3]
6. A facility has a load consisting of two motors (remember always in parallel, never in series). One
motor draws 200 kVA and has a cosine phi of 80 % and the other draws 100 kVA and has a
cosine phi of 90 %. What is the cosine phi of the combined load? [6]
7. An old 10x10 open plan office is painted to increase the reflectance of the walls from 30 % to 50
%. There are 85 lamps at 2.8 m above the work surface installed in the office. The ceiling
reflectance is 50 %. How many lamps can be removed? (Use lumen method). Assume = 1,
LLF = 1. [8]
8. A lighting survey of a 400 m2 office building identified the following fixtures:
30*4 tube fixtures @ 192 watts / fixture
10 100 watt incandescent floodlights
20* 75 watt task lamps
Determine the lighting density in W / m2 for this facility [3]
9. Uncontrolled System: Six conference rooms, each with four 4-lamp fluorescent fixtures (188
watts) operating 10 hrs / day, 5 days / week (2 600 hrs / yr); lamps @ R 2.
Controlled System: When conference rooms are unoccupied for longer than five minutes, the
fixtures are now automatically turned off; they now operate about 7 hrs / day, 5 days / week (1
820 hrs / yr).
(i) What are the annual energy savings when replacing the old system with the new system?
[4]
(ii) Comment whether this is an energy saving or energy cost saving? [2]