Just Added - Refrigerants and Their Application Tech Session from 4:00-5:00 PM

(The Tech Session is free to all registered attendees for Thursday's Dinner Meeting)

Dinner Meeting from 5:00-8:00 PM

Refrigerants and Their Application Tech Session Summary

Conversations about sustainable buildings typically focus on the need for water and energy efficiency and green building materials. Equally important in the move toward sustainability is the need to reduce the impact of refrigerants on the environment.

This presentation provides a brief history of refrigerants, their basic chemistry and their properties.  The emphasis on what determines the types of applications are most suitable, including compression technology, heat exchanger design and service procedures.  Alternative refrigerants with a focus on potential refrigerants for the future are discussed, noting that safety concerns and environmental issues need to be balanced.  Refrigeration system efficiency is also discussed in the context of the environmental issues.

 Dinner Meeting - 5:00-8:00pm

Chiller Plant Pumping Systems Summary

This presentation explains the fundamental heat transfer, thermodynamic, and fluid flow principles that govern chiller plants and their components.  The focus is how these principles can be utilized to reduce the energy use and how the operation and maintenance is affected by hydronic system choices.  The “Low Delta T” syndrome and how different piping system designs may or may not mitigate it is another major topic.  

Speaker

Tom Watson, P.E. Fellow ASHRAE 

Tom Watson currently is an engineering consultant to Daikin Applied. Before this, Tom spent 17 years as Chief Engineer, involved in Global New Product Development supporting facilities in China, Japan, Italy and North America for Daikin Applied.

Tom has held various leadership positions in ASHRAE, including president from 2012-2013, and recently chair of the committee writing ASHRAE’s Standard 188, Prevention of Legionellosis Associated with Building Water Systems.

As a licensed professional engineer in the commonwealth of Virginia, Tom holds five patents related to refrigerant, gas and chiller compressors. He has received numerous awards throughout his career, including the ASHRAE Standards Achievement Award in 2004, ASHRAE Exceptional Service Award in 2010, and the F. Paul Anderson Award in 2016 which is ASHRAE’s highest technical award.  In 2017 he was awarded the Institute of Refrigeration’s J & E Hall Gold Medal for ground breaking work on improving the efficiency of chillers and industrial heat pumps.

Tickets

$40.00 Non-Member

$40.00 Society Member

$30.00 Chapter Member

$25.00 YEA Member

$10.00 Student Member

$0.00 Life Member