Replacement of a 30-year old fire-tube boiler with a new 95% efficient gas-fired steam condensing boiler to serve a university’s main campus cafeteria.
Replacement of a 30-year old fire-tube boiler with a new 95% efficient gas-fired steam condensing boiler to serve a university’s main campus cafeteria.
Combating climate change is the major topic of this time, and the HVAC industry is central to tackling that issue. Refrigerants play a large part in the industry’s efforts to slow the rate of global warming.
The adage that increasing outdoor air ventilation will improve IAQ is not always the case. For example, how do you manage ventilation to support occupant health if outdoor air is polluted by an upwind wildfire or an accident that spilled airborne toxins?
Are there lessons from Fibonacci ratios that could be used by engineers to improve fans blades for air movement, size HVAC ducts, or design economical mechanical systems?
The retrofit project provides continuous building-by-building monitoring energy and utility cost analysis inventorying the chilled water flow meters and Btuh energy metering to determine decarbonization results.