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Level 3

Skills Bootcamp in Heat Recovery & Transfer

Delivered in partnership with the Department for Education and the York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority, the Skills Bootcamp in Heat Recovery and Transfer is a short course aimed at employed individuals working in any sector who are looking to lower CO2 emissions, reduce energy costs and help the UK meet net-zero targets.

The programme is designed to provide learners with the higher technical skills and knowledge to implement heat recovery and transfer solutions.

Skills Bootcamps are funded by the Department for Education and are an integral part of the Government’s Skills for Life strategy. The York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority supports the roll out of Skills Bootcamps across the entire region it serves.

Skills Bootcamp in Heat Recovery and Transfer Leaflet

Skills Bootcamps are free courses for adults typically lasting up to 16 weeks, available across a range of sectors. They help people develop priority skills that are in demand at both local and national level. They are developed by training providers in partnership with employers.

Significant investment has been committed by the government in Skills Bootcamps and we are pleased to be invited by The York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority, who oversees the funding for the programme across the area it serves, to offer this particular Skills Bootcamp to help employers develop their workforces for the benefit of the local economy.

Delivered within Selby College’s brand-new Carbon Capture and Storage centre and its Institute of Technology laboratory, learners will have the opportunity to use cutting edge technology and training rigs.

The course will be delivered one day a week over five weeks in the classroom, with a mixture of theory and online immersive learning.

Benefits of studying Heat Recovery and Transfer:

  • Learn how to scope and specify a heat recovery transfer system for your business or home
  • Be at the forefront of new and emerging green technologies
  • Understand how heat recovery technology can reduce energy costs

Benefits of using Heat Recovery and Transfer in industry or the home:

  • Save on energy costs
  • Reduce emissions
  • Get ahead of future net-zero regulations

What is Heat Recovery and Transfer?

Heat recovery and transfer is the practice of capturing heat from a source and making use of it in another place or for another process. This could be capturing the heat from a factory production line and using it to heat the factory offices or transferring heat from a furnace and using it to increase the efficiency of a heat pump. Various technologies, systems and methods can be used to capture and transfer heat.

At Selby College, we have various training rigs which simulate the technology and processes used in heat recovery and transfer. By using rigs which mimic real-world methods, learners are able to carry out experiments and generate data on the efficiency of these methods and scope how successfully a solution could be implemented in their particular industry, business or property.

What will the course cover?

  • Heat, energy and thermo-dynamics
  • Heat recovery technologies
  • Scoping and specification of heat recovery and transfer systems
  • How to use technology to reduce energy cost and emissions

Plus much more..

Completion can result in increased responsibilities within an existing role or open up opportunities for a new role. Employers enrolling their employees onto the course will be able to implement heat recovery and transfer projects within their business or adapt the technology and learning for other applications.

Many businesses and homes could make use of simple heat recovery solutions to reduce emissions and energy consumption. Making better use of heat that is produced anyway is going to play a key part in the UK meeting net-zero targets. Whilst much of the technology used in heat recovery has existed for some time, using it in a systematic way to save energy, reduce cost and create efficiencies is new but starting to gain traction. For example, there are plans underway in the UK to build data centres linked to community swimming pools – the pool gets heated and in return, the data centre is cooled.

  • 19+
  • Work or live in York and North Yorkshire region

In small groups, you will create a proposal for a heat recover and transfer system that could be implemented in your workplace or home and deliver this to the rest of the class.