February 2014 ASHRAE Luncheon

Topic: Measuring Air Velocity - Differences in Methods and Technologies

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

Date: Monday, February17, 2014

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

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

Topic:

Indirect methods of estimating air velocity and volume are insufficient to satisfy current standards and most ventilation codes.  Direct methods have evolved over the past 30 years to provide designers and building operations with choices and different levels of field performance.  Velocity pressure-based methods and devices are the most readily understood but can provide the greatest measurement uncertainty if their limitations are not observed.  Vortex Shedding and Thermal Dispersion offer advantages in absolute performance and reliability.  Comparing and contrasting these technologies will provide you with a greater understanding of your options.

 

Speaker:

Leonard A. Damiano

During the past 30 years, Len Damiano has been employed in the HVAC industry by air control and air movement product manufacturers, in a variety of senior management positions, with North American companies. 

Len is currently Vice President - Marketing and International Sales at EBTRON, Inc. where he has been employed for 20 years. He received an M. B. A. at Rockhurst University in Kansas City; and possesses a B. A. from the University of Missouri.

Len became a full Member of ASHRAEin 1990. He is active with and currently a member of 8 Technical and Standing Projects Committees:

 

TC 1.2 (Test and Measurement Instruments); NVM

SPC 41.2 (Standard Methods of Airflow Measurement); VM

TC 1.4 (Control Theory and Application); NVM

SPC 195 (MOT for Rating Air Terminal Unit Sensors and Controls) VM

TC 4.3 (Ventilation and Infiltration) NVM

SSPC 62.1 (Ventilation for Acceptable IAQ) Main Committee and Education Subcommittee; VM(for close to 10 years)

SPC 111-2008R (Measurement, Testing, Adjusting and Balancing of Building Heating, Ventilation and Air-Conditioning Systems); VM 

MTG-EAS (Energy-Efficient Air-Handling Systems for Non-Residential Buildings) VM Representing both TC 1.4 and SSPC 62.1

 

He has been a contributor to the Fundamentals Handbook on Instrumentation and Applications Handbook on Controls, for a number of years.

Len is a member of both the U.S. Green Building Councilwhich developed and maintains the LEED Green Building Rating Systems and an Associate Member of the International Code Council.

He has developed, contributed, written or co-authored numerous technical articles published in the ASHRAE Journal, ASHRAE Transactions, HPAC Engineering, the TAB Journal (AABC Magazine) and automatedbuildings.com.