It provides fundamental concepts of electricity and electrical circuits. This course introduces students to basic concepts of heat, cold, temperature, evaporation, condensation, saturation, pressure, refrigeration, the refrigeration cycle and its components, and the concept of an entire building as a system. This course provides the fundamentals of, and basic requirements for, combustion and introduces students to regulations pertaining to oil, natural gas, and propane heating, types of oil burners and nozzles, and provides the theoretical background to install and service fuel oil storage and delivery systems. This course provides students with the fundamental theory and practical skills required to install different types of piping for a variety of heating, refrigeration, and air conditioning appliances. This course provides students with hands-on training with respect to fuel combustion, oil burners and nozzles, and fuel oil storage and delivery systems.
Students dismantle and reassemble a variery of heating system components and appliances.
Class discussions and group and individual assignments are used extensively. This course provides theoretical applications for electrical systems found in a variety of heating, refrigeration, and air conditioning systems. This course is an introduction to applied communication with particular emphasis on the development of speaking, listening, reading, writing, and thinking skills. The language skills developed are useful to students in college courses as well as in the workplace. This course builds on principles covered in Refrigeration Theory 1.