Joanna Turpin is a Senior Editor at The ACHR NEWS. She can be contacted at 248-786-1707 or joannaturpin@achrnews.com. Joanna has been with BNP Media since 1991, first heading up the company’s technical book division before moving over to The ACHR NEWS, where she frequently writes about refrigerants and commercial refrigeration. She obtained her bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Washington and worked on her master’s degree in technical communication at Eastern Michigan University.
Nine companies have been named as winners of the sixth annual AHR Expo Innovation Awards. All nine companies will be recognized at the awards ceremony at the Javits Convention Center on Tuesday, Jan. 22, at 1 p.m. in the New Product Technology Theater A.
It’s hard to believe that it’s been 17 years since New York City last hosted the International Air-Conditioning, Heating, Refrigerating Exposition (AHR Expo). This year’s event will definitely be bigger than when it was here in 1991, with more than 1,800 exhibiting companies from over 34 countries, including over 370 international exhibitors.
Developing
products that consumers need and will ultimately buy is something that
manufacturers spend much time - and money - researching. In the world of
humidification, manufacturers are constantly coming out with new products and
reworking existing products in order to respond to customers’ needs.
All
manufacturers now offer programmable thermostats that are easy to understand
and simple to program. These controls don’t just make life less complicated for
the homeowner, though; dealers also love how easy they are to install and how
well the smart systems communicate with the technician and the homeowner.
Over the last decade or so, manufacturers have incorporated numerous innovations into their furnace offerings in order to improve energy efficiency and comfort. The latest innovation is the modulating gas furnace.
The good news for homeowners is that most of the country is forecasted to see above-average winter temperatures. The bad news is that homeowners are going to see an increase in fuel bills. On the bright side, milder winter temperatures and higher fuel costs provide very good conditions for dual-fuel systems.
For an HVAC dealer, it’s exciting when a manufacturer asks you to install a new, high-end, technologically advanced product that hasn’t been seen outside the factory walls. That’s what happened to Dave Russell when Bryant asked the dealer to install several of its new modulating gas furnaces.
Larry Ball of Southern Nevada Vocational Technical Center (SNVTC), an honorable mention honoree in the Best Instructor competition sponsored by The NEWS and the Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Institute, knows his way around the industry.
Scientists have told us that there is supposedly more carbon in the atmosphere than at any other point in time so, of course, that makes carbon the culprit in global warming. But what if there’s more to it than that?
Exhaust hoods in restaurants and other commercial kitchens typically operate at full speed all day long and sometimes all night long - even when cooking is not taking place. The amount of energy wasted by this continual exhaust can easily add up to thousands of dollars every year, depending on how many hoods are in use.