ASHRAE Columbus October Event

Thursday, October 16, 2014 at 7:42AM
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Topic: Overview of the Development and Revisions of ASHRAE Standards

Place: Grange Audubon Center, 505 W Whittier St, Columbus

Date: Monday, October 20, 2014

Time: Registration 11:30am, Program 11:45am

Cost: $20 Local ASHRAE Members, $25 Non-Local ASHRAE Members

Abstract: This talk provides an overview that will help you:

• Understand the functions of:
  • ASHRAE Technical Committees (TCs)
  • ASHRAE Standards Project Committees (SPCs)
  • The ASHRAE Standards Committees (StdC)
• Understand how you can participate on ASHRAE Standards Project Committees even if you don't attend ASHRAE Conferences
• Become more aware of existing ASHRAE Standards that directly affect your business

Speaker:

Rick Hall, President of the ASHRAE Standards Committee.  Mr. Hall is a Mechanical Engineer who retired from Battelle 5 years ago and is now the President of Hall Consultants, LLC located in Worthington OH.  Mr. Hall has been the Chair of several new and revision Standards Project Committees over the past 25 years.  His web site is www.hallintegratedsystemsdesign.com and his email address is rhall.1492@gmail.com.

During his career, Mr. Hall led project teams that:

• Developed and delivered two identical hermetically-sealed temperature control modules for a deep-space satellite (1979)
• Repackaged a 2-cylinder production hermetic compressor into an open-shaft version to support Battelle's Gas Engine Heat Pump project (1986-87)
• Designed and constructed a prototype Gas Engine Heat Pump system and then chamber tested it in an OEM's test chamber (1988)
• Developed methods that were used to convert several specialized test equipment systems from CFC to HFC refrigerants at Newark AFB and Tinker AFB (1993-94)
• Served as an expert witness on behalf of an OEM in patent litigation (1999)
• Developed and constructed the first known biological test chamber that is capable of safely testing an entire bio-detection system's capability to detect anthrax, ricin, and other bio-warfare agent aerosols (2007-08)
• Developed and delivered replicates of a chiller system for the Navy's Advanced SEAL Delivery System (a special mini-submarine) (2007-09)

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Article originally appeared on ASHRAE®- Columbus Chapter (http://ashraecolumbus.org/).