Building owners know there will always be problems with the structures they own. But dealing with all the different issues can prove daunting. That’s why a former HVACR contractor from Bradenton, Fla., has developed a one-stop place to deal with those issues - or more correctly, to have all those issues turned over to one person.
The Refrigeration Service Engineers Society’s (RSES’s) 2008 Conference and HVACR Technology Expo had a special sense of occasion. For it came during the year in which the society was marking its 75th anniversary.
The hike to the Purdue University campus usually was pretty routine during the recent four-day compressor and refrigeration-air conditioning conferences. But one day there was quite a fuss.
Water purification continues to be an issue of importance, especially in the food service sector. Restaurants, bars, hotels/motels, and health care facilities are some of the most critical areas in need of high quality water.
When you are filling your fleet of service vans and trucks with fuel, you no doubt cringe at what it costs to do so. And you want to assign blame. But have you ever thought about blaming the Internet and/or those 24-hour cable news stations? Those could well be a couple of the culprits, according to Richard Costello.
It looks like the spigot of new HCFC-22 will be totally shut off as of 2020. The so-called “service tail” of HCFCs from that date until 2030 apparently will not include the most widely used refrigerant in the HVACR sector. That was the perspective of Dave Godwin of the EPA, speaking at a recent conference.
My now almost two-year-old home has already been glorified in a story when I wrote a column about it some time ago as having a 13 SEER air conditioner running on R-22.
An industry type who wishes to remain anonymous for the time being has been in touch with me regarding a series of stories on some ways to deal with difficult issues facing the industry.
Industrial refrigeration, magnetics, and China are apparently on the minds of HVACR engineers. That was reflected in three plenary talks during the most recent combined International Compressor Engineering and International Refrigeration/Air Conditioning conferences hosted by Purdue University.