Refrigeration technicians who work on industrial systems are aware of the challenges of installing up to a half dozen valves along a long line of pipe. Now a technology limits such work to a couple of welds and puts all the components onto a single, compact body only a foot or so long.
A contractor trying to better understand Big Box stores and do-it-yourselfers might be interested in knowing that there is a trade association for such places and folks, and it has just marked its 25th year.
The most recent International Trade Fair for Refrigeration, Air Conditioning, and Ventilation, also known as IKK, gave the industry an update message on the battle between upstart refrigerant CO2 and the now long-established HFCs.
If you are planning to install a new system, don’t even think about using R-22. And if you have systems running on R-22, start making plans to retrofit away from that refrigerant. That was a message from two supermarket engineers speaking at the 27th Annual FMI Energy & Technical Service Conference.
What happens when the HVACR industry sets out to have a major trade show only once every two years and ends up possibly having two such events within a week of each other? That’s what contractors and manufacturers in Europe are trying to figure out.
Technological innovations, ranging from ice machines to large chillers, were in evidence throughout the floor of the 27th International Trade Fair for Refrigeration, Air Conditioning, Ventilation, hosted in Nuremburg, Germany.
For contractors and technicians in Europe, July 4, 2007 will mark the beginning of a process that will probably lead to strict training and certification requirements to work on HVACR equipment, along with more detailed recordkeeping and the end of the use of disposable refrigerant cylinders.
The Refrigeration Service Engineers Society (RSES) is attempting to shake off what it feels the industry considers a members-only, refrigeration-focused image by promoting itself as "The HVACR Training Authority" and establishing relationships with a wide range of other industry organizations.
Whether recruiting, training, or testing HVACR students, Mark Wood - honored with third place in the Best Instructor contest sponsored by The NEWS and the Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Institute - seems to be on the move.
What's in an acronym? That question came to mind a few weeks ago, when I was at the Refrigeration Service Engineers Society's (RSES) annual conference. Officials were pointing out that RSES was more than just a refrigeration association.