Two Roads Brewing Company in Stratford, CT, was looking to expand its fast-growing brewery and needed the expertise of an HVACR manufacturer to assist them.
The town of Portsmouth, RI, had four schools (two elementary schools, one middle school, and one high school) with outdated, inefficient gas-fired hot water boilers that were becoming expensive to maintain and operate.
Budget woes. Equipment that has outlived its effectiveness. Unorthodox original decisions and little space to maneuver. The layers are many, but as this project shows, the solutions are there.
ASHRAE and the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences (KFAS) recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) outlining how the two groups will work together to promote mutual advancement in several areas of common interest.
In the first of a pair of articles on motor fundamentals for HVACR, the author gets into everything from industry standards and service conditions to changing speeds, enclosures, and the often misunderstood service factor. You’ll want to save this one for your team’s reference library.
Our objective in specifying motors for HVACR equipment is to start and run the driven equipment under all operating conditions reliably and with reasonable life expectancy.