Utica, N.Y. — ECR International, Inc. announced that president & CEO, Ron Passafaro, has been re-elected as Chairman of the Hydronics Institute through 2017. Re-election to the Chairmanship in consecutive terms is rare and likely due to the three significant issues which began during Passafaro’s first term: US DOE 2020 Minimum Efficiency regulations, US DOE Read more
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Utica, N.Y. — ECR International, Inc. announced that president & CEO, Ron Passafaro, has been re-elected as Chairman of the Hydronics Institute through 2017.
Re-election to the Chairmanship in consecutive terms is rare and likely due to the three significant issues which began during Passafaro’s first term: US DOE 2020 Minimum Efficiency regulations, US DOE Testing Procedures and Protocols and EPA ENERGY STAR Efficiency Tiers. Ron’s management of these complex challenges facing the industry thus far has moved the Institute’s members to call upon him to finish this important work during a second term.
Passafaro has been a member of the Hydronics Institute his entire career and has served on its Executive Board since 2007. The Institute is comprised of 69 domestic and international manufacturers of boilers and related components. The Hydronics Institute develops standards, conducts certification testing and works with Federal agencies, specifically the US Department of Energy, in regard to regulations governing efficiency and safety standards for the North American boiler industry.
Passafaro, who looks forward to his new term, said, “I am honored and humbled to be re-elected by my competitors and industry peers. Our industry continues to face increasing Federal and State regulation governing residential and commercial boiler efficiency standards. I am committed to working with both our government representatives and member companies to meet and exceed the North American market’s expectations.”
The Hydronics Institute has been representing the North American boiler industry since 1915 and is celebrating its Centennial this September in Absecon, NJ. It is a sub-section of the Air Conditioning, Heating and Refrigeration Institute (AHRI) which represents 314 member companies with over 1 million US workers dedicated to excellence in product manufacturing to meet the heating, cooling and refrigeration needs of the world.
Passafaro also has served on the AHRI board of directors since 2011.
Neutrasafe Corp. has added new products to their line of high-quality condensate neutralizers to fit almost any hi-efficiency, gas fired application. Improvements have also been made to all tube-type and tank-type neutralizers, enhancing ease of maintenance and/or performance. Tube-type condensate neutralizers are now offered in four sizes from 220,000 to 2 million BTUH. Addition of Read more
Neutrasafe Corp. has added new products to their line of high-quality condensate neutralizers to fit almost any hi-efficiency, gas fired application. Improvements have also been made to all tube-type and tank-type neutralizers, enhancing ease of maintenance and/or performance.
Tube-type condensate neutralizers are now offered in four sizes from 220,000 to 2 million BTUH. Addition of the largest size now fills the gap between the company’s 1.2 million BTUH tube-type unit and the smallest tank-type neutralizer. Tank configurations are available with capacity guidelines of 4 million and 6 million BTUH.
The new patent pending tube-type neutralizers feature integral unions with O-ring seals that greatly simplify removal for service and recharging. Unclasping a lock ring on either end of the unit allows the main body to be removed without disturbing the drain line. Replacement O-rings are included with tube model recharge kits and all tube model neutralizers are available with a snap-in mounting clamp option. The new model was designed by a Master Plumber with more than 30 years in the industry and is completely manufactured in the US.
Along with Neutra-Safe’s upgraded and expanded product line, the neutralization media for all units has been improved. A mix of calcite and magnesium oxide pellets is now used for enhanced performance and is also available in recharge kits for any of Neutra-Safe’s condensate neutralizers.
Centrally located in Orange County, California, the Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center (ARTIC) provides transportation service for three million local residents as well as 40 million annual visitors. A LEED Platinum-certified building, the structure is 67,000 square feet with three levels. ARTIC’s unique architecture includes a large number of windows and a dome-shaped structure, which Read more
Centrally located in Orange County, California, the Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center (ARTIC) provides transportation service for three million local residents as well as 40 million annual visitors. A LEED Platinum-certified building, the structure is 67,000 square feet with three levels.
ARTIC’s unique architecture includes a large number of windows and a dome-shaped structure, which results in high solar gains. Due to ARTIC’s size, controlling the climate inside the building with a conventional forced-air system would have been nearly impossible.
Instead, HVAC designers for the project chose to implement a radiant heating and cooling system. Radiant cooling allows instantaneous removal of heat through absorption. Installing ViegaPEX™ Barrier tubing at tightly spaced increments (6 inches on-center) allows it to be within two inches of the finished surface floor, which gave the engineer the ability to immediately remove the solar sensible gain. For the ARTIC project, the cooling capacity ranges up to 40 btuh/sq. ft. This provides an energy savings of 34 percent over ASHRAE 90.1-2007.
“We installed 44,000 feet of in-slab heating and cooling pipe, 18 manifolds and 12 pumps,” said Paul Redgate, Pipe Fitting Superintendent for California Comfort Systems. “We’ve done some smaller stuff but nothing on this scale.”
REHAU was awarded with the Plastics Pipe Institute (PPI) Building & Construction Division’s Project of the Year earlier this month at the organization’s annual meeting. The award recognizes the company’s role in the École Secondaire Jeunes sans Frontiers (Secondary School for Youth Without Frontiers) project in Brampton, Ontario. The school, which has earned the Read more
JSF High School features a REHAU radiant slab heating and cooling system installed throughout the building. Photo © Patrick Kennedy.
REHAU was awarded with the Plastics Pipe Institute (PPI) Building & Construction Division’s Project of the Year earlier this month at the organization’s annual meeting. The award recognizes the company’s role in the École Secondaire Jeunes sans Frontiers (Secondary School for Youth Without Frontiers) project in Brampton, Ontario. The school, which has earned the Canadian Green Building Council’s LEED® Silver certification, is the first secondary school building in Ontario to have achieved this status.
Designed by Robertson Simmons Architects, the French language high school, which encompasses approximately 91,000 sq. ft., is dedicated to fostering an enriched, student-focused learning experience by providing a healthy and sustainably designed environment. To achieve this, the design includes indoor spaces integrated with outdoor landscapes, a green roof, expansive daylighting, water-conserving plumbing fixtures, lighting with occupancy sensors and displacement ventilation.
The system consists of 104,700 ft (32,000 m) of RAUPEX® 5/8-in. O2 Barrier pipe and 42 PRO-BALANCE® manifolds. Photo courtesy Klimatrol.
To achieve maximum HVAC efficiency, the design includes a REHAU radiant slab heating and cooling system, which circulates a heated or chilled water-glycol solution through a network of PEX piping installed in the floors throughout the entire facility. The radiant system enables the school to meet indoor environmental criteria related to air quality, noise reduction and occupant comfort while also maximizing space efficiency by eliminating bulky convectors and ductwork.
“To help the school recognize the benefits of a combined radiant heating and cooling system, we supplied a finite element analysis to model the floor heating and cooling output,” explained Mark Euteneier, president of Klimatrol Environmental Systems, the project’s designer and supplier. “The results predicted a significant energy savings due to reduced heating and cooling loads and increased efficiencies of the heated and chilled water sources,” he said. “Coupled with the comfortable, even method of heating and cooling, this analysis made the REHAU radiant system a must-have for the project.”
The system consists of 104,700 ft (32,000 m) of RAUPEX® 5/8-in. O2 Barrier pipe and 42 PRO-BALANCE® manifolds pre-piped with 3-way valves into recessed manifold distribution cabinets. The PEX pipe was installed at the ground level in a concrete slab-on-grade design using a counter-flow spiral pattern to promote even surface temperatures.
To accommodate precast concrete floors on the second level, the pipe was affixed using plastic rails of recycled PVC and covered with a 2 to 3 in (5 to 8 cm) concrete layer.
REHAU has been previously recognized with PPI Building & Construction Division Project of the Year awards for the Denver Zoo Asian Tropics Complex as well as for the Vail, Colorado town center project, Solaris.
Plastics Pipe Institute Inc. (PPI) is a non-profit trade association dedicated to the advocacy and advancement of use of plastics in pipe infrastructure systems because they are smart, economical and sustainable solutions. The association is comprised of approximately 300 members and associates. The mission of PPI is to promote plastics as the material of choice for piping applications.
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Ferrous impurities form when iron or steel oxidizes. Abrasive and often microscopic, the impurities can deposit onto heat exchanger surfaces and accumulate in pump cavities, causing reduced thermal efficiency and premature wear. The new Caleffi flanged DIRTMAG® is a commercial dirt separator that is especially effective at removing ferrous impurities. As fluid enters the separator Read more
Ferrous impurities form when iron or steel oxidizes. Abrasive and often microscopic, the impurities can deposit onto heat exchanger surfaces and accumulate in pump cavities, causing reduced thermal efficiency and premature wear.
The new Caleffi flanged DIRTMAG® is a commercial dirt separator that is especially effective at removing ferrous impurities. As fluid enters the separator, the impurities are attracted to and captured by a concentrated magnetic field created by a stack of powerful neodymium rare-earth magnets housed inside a brass sleeve located beneath the flow stream.
With 2½ times the ferrous impurity removal performance of standard separators, DIRTMAG removes up to 100% of total system impurities.