ASHRAE Technical Committee 8.6 - Cooling Towers & Evaporative Condensers

PROGRAMS



Winter Meeting 2009 in Chicago

TC 3.6 and TC 8.6 are co-sponsoring Seminar 57, Utility Conservation Strategies for Sustainable Urban Design, featuring talks by Chuck Sanderson, Jr., John Koeller and Leon Shapiro. Moderator of this Seminar is Scott Mayes.

Hope to see you there!

Previous Programs

At the 2008 Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City, TC 8.6 sponsored the following programs:

Forum 12, "Resource Consumption Between Air-Cooled and Water-Cooled Systems: Where Do we Draw the Line?"

Seminar 48, "Balanced Energy and Water Conservation in HVAC Cooling Systems: A Total Consumption Approach"

TC 3.6 also sponsored two programs in Salt Lake City of interest to TC 8.6 members. Click here for information.

SPC188 sponsored Forum 11 in New York entitled, "SPC 188: Prevention of Legionellosis Associated with Building Water Systems, Its Approach and Application of HACCP: Will this Work for You?"

TC 8.6 sponsored Forum 3 at the Long Beach meeting:
"Can Resource Conservation be Achieved Through the Use of Evaporative Heat Rejection Systems".
Moderator: Leon E. Shapiro, VRTX Technologies

TC 8.2 sponsored Seminar 55, "Chiller Tower Control: Marketing Hype versus Physics Basics"
Chair: Rick M. Heiden, Trane
Speakers:
1. Tower Control: Frank Morrison, Baltimore Aircoil Co.
2. Optimizing Cooling Tower and Condenser Water Pump Operation in Chiller Plants: Steve Taylor, P.E., Taylor Engineering
3. Tower Control: Mick Schwedler, P.E., Trane

At the 2005 winter meeting in Orlando, TC 8.6 cosponsored Seminar 39, "Chiller-Tower Interaction", with TC 9.1, Large Building Air Conditioning Systems. The slides from that presentation are available by clicking the links below:

Cooling Tower Fundamentals

Effect of Variable Air and Water Flow on Cooling Towers

Real World Cooling Tower Performance

Chiller-Tower Interaction

Participants in this seminar were:

TC 8.6 Paul Lindahl of Marley Cooling Technologies, Inc.
TC 8.6 Frank Morrison of Baltimore Aircoil Company
TC 9.1 Mick Schwedler of Trane
TC 9.1 John Kuempel, Jr. of DeBra-Kuempel

Do you have an idea for a future program? Please send a note to the Program Committee Chair.

Click here to view related topics at the ASHRAE Technical Committee 3.6, "Water Treatment ", website.

Program Chair:

Alfredo M. Sotolongo
Protec Cooling Towers
eMail: amsotolongo@
protecinc.com