March BOG Meeting

Thursday, March 11, 2010

The March BOG meeting will be at the Woody’s Grille & Spirits at 12 o’clock on March 11, 2010.

Woody’s Grille & Spirits
960 S. McCarran Blvd. #108
Sparks, NV 89431
(775) 351-1010

February Meeting

Thursday, February 18, 2010

The meeting will be held at the Austin’s Restaurant. Cocktails at 6:00, Dinner at 6:30, Speaker from7’til 8′ish, Closing around 8:15′ish

Topic: Water Source Heat Pumps

Speaker: Kenton Hawkins

Speaker Biography:

Kenton first went to the University of Redlands and then finished his undergraduate degree at Cal State University, Fullerton. After working in Africa for 2 years, Kenton returned home and began his career in heat transfer along with beginning work on a Masters degree.

His career began as an applications engineer and customer support at Russell Coil Company in Brea, a commercial refrigeration equipment manufacturer, figuring box and product load calculations, and matching systems that would fit the applications. Expanding his growth in commercial refrigeration, Kenton became an outside salesman for Larkin, which later became part of the Heatcraft group which is currently owned by Lennox Industries. The territory was doing so well the company split the geography in 2, and he focused his attention on the southern California market and was given Hawaii as a bonus.

Kenton’s management opportunity came with his work for Danfoss selling their refrigeration products, compressors and controls. He became the first to sell Danfoss drives to Ralphs, an 87 facility supermarket chain based in Torrance. And as further acquisitions took place with Danfoss, Kenton took on the additional responsibilities of selling total supermarket controls for racks, HVAC, lighting, and their walk-in refrigeration and freezer boxes.

It has been Kenton’s good fortune to work with other companies such as ClimateMaster, a water-source heat-pump manufacturer, Hansen Technologies; an ammonia controls company, APC (American Power Conversion) selling mission critical HVAC systems into all sizes of data centers, and also district manager for Lennox.

Flier for event: February Ashrae Meeting

January Meeting

Thursday, January 21, 2010

The meeting will be held at the Austin’s Restaurant. Cocktails at 6:00, Dinner at 6:30, Speaker from 6:45 ’til 7:30′ish, Closing around 8′ish

Topic: Solar Thermal Technologies

Speaker: Jeff Deal

Speaker Biography:

Jeff Deal is CEO of Hamilton Engineering, Inc., of Livonia, Michigan, manufacturer of Solar Panels and components, high efficiency water heating and hydronic heating products and systems.

Prior to starting Hamilton in 1981, his work was in the field of engineering heat recovery products and systems for process and commercial heating equipment exhaust stacks in a non-condensing mode. Included in a number of these systems was solar assisted hot water.

Throughout the 1980’s and early 1990’s most of his engineering work was done in the field application of fan-assisted combustion on copper finned appliances in the 85 – 88% efficiency range (so called near condensing at that time). The industry was learning much about actual combustion exhaust dew points and effects of fans on the gas delivery and regulation systems during that period.

In 1995 he began working to apply condensing combustion to products for the North American market. Finding over 20 years of application and production in the European community already in existence, he has spent considerable time since then being educated by and working side by side with the founding fathers of those products, components and technology. In 2001, Hamilton Engineering introduced its first (intentionally) condensing product to the North American market.

With the renaissance of the solar market in the last 5 years and the natural alignment of high efficiency condensing technology and solar technology on the same projects, Jeff and Hamilton Engineering have combined these two companion technologies and provide design assistance and high-quality equipment to help engineers and contractors create high-efficiency solar systems for the US market.

Flier for event: January Ashrae Meeting

2010 Region X Chapter Regional Conference (CRC)

August 26 – 28, 2010
Reno, NV

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