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2014.12.14

December 2014 Product Showcase Award

12 December 2014 ? At Comfortech 2014, 12 products were recognized as Product Showcase Award winners. ? This month, we showcase the Rheem 90%+ Gas Furnace Platform, the winner in the Forced-air Heatin...

2014.12.13

Manor Refrigerated Cabinets and coolsuredoors work with MAS

11 December 2014 Manor Refrigerated Cabinets and coolsuredoors, which operate as trading divisions of Manor Concepts Limited, are working in collaboration with the Manufacturing Advisory Service (MAS)...

2014.12.12

Rinnai Moves Tankless Rack System Assembly to Peachtree City

December 10, 2014 PEACHTREE CITY, Ga. -- Tankless water heater manufacturer Rinnai announced that it has begun assembly of its Commercial Tankless Rack System (TRS) at Rinnai America headquarters in Peachtree City, Georgia.   “We are excited to bring TRS assembly to Peachtree City,” said Frank Windsor, Rinnai general manager. “We are committed to providing quality systems that continuously ex...

2014.12.11

Australia reaches 4GW of installed solar

09 Dec 2014 Breakthrough research The latest update on the Australian PV Institute (APVI) solar map shows that Australia now has 4GW of installed PV.   Installed capacity has quadrupled since 201...

2014.12.11

Alfa Laval wins SEK 85 million energy-efficiency order in So

Dec 9, 2014 Alfa Laval - a world leader in heat transfer, centrifugal separation and fluid handling - has won an order to supply Alfa Laval Packinox heat exchangers to a petrochemical plant in South K...

2014.12.04

Domestic refrigerator temperatures over the years

08/12/2014 A recent article by J. Evans et al. from London South Bank University reports on the changes in domestic refrigerators in the UK based on the last detailed survey carried out in 1991 and on a comparison with more recent figures.   The 1991 survey showed an overall mean temperature of 6°C, with 70% of refrigerators operating at average temperatures above 5°C.   The 2014 survey,...

2014.12.03

We want to reach pole position

5 December 2014 ebm-papst is team partner to the MERCEDES AMG PETRONAS Formula 1 racing team. But what does that mean? Rainer Hundsdorfer, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the ebm-papst Group, an...

2014.12.07

Taco Forms Collaboration with Askoll for Joint R&D, New Pump

5 December 2014 CRANSTON, R.I. -- Taco has formed a strategic collaboration with Italian pump manufacturer Askoll to share technology and work together on research and development relating to new circulator designs as well as other joint product and marketing initiatives.   The strategic partnering agreement was announced in a ceremony at the Taco Innovation & Design Center at Taco headqu...

2014.12.01

Whirlpool clothes dryer garners Energy Star Emerging Technol

Dec 3, 2014 The Whirlpool brand HybridCare Heat Pump Duet Dryer (model WED99HED) was awarded an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 2014 Energy Star Emerging Technology Award. The Award goes to innovative technologies that meet performance criteria to reduce energy use and greenhouse gas emissions, without sacrificing features or functionality. The winning Whirlpool dryer uses a heat pump to re...

2014.12.04

Correcting For Invisible Air Traps Near Fans

by Rob Falke Dec 3, 2014 Have you ever installed a system that suffered from low airflow and no matter what you did to try to fix it, the solution eluded you? The odds are the cause is invisible syste...