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Jason Greenberg Jay Matter Jeff Haberl Jerry Sipes Jianshun Zhang Jim Caylor Jim Kelsey Jim Lutz Joe Huang Joel Neymark John Stoops

John Topliss Jojo Castro Josh Wall Kent Anderson Lance DeLaura Larry Schoen Linjie Huang Marc Scancarello Martha Hewett Mark Johnson Mark Stutman

Michael Brandemuehl Mick Schwedler Mike Apte Mike Brambley Mike Collins Mustafa Yanik Neal Lott Nick Agopian Omar Abdelaziz Paul Raymer Pradeep Bansal

Ray McGowan Raymond Thomas Rich Corsi Richard Hackner Richard Royal Robert Davis Robert Doeffinger Robert Morris Robert Yost Rolando Legarreta Rusty Tharp

Stephen Kuiak Steve Blanc Steve Cornick Steve Emmerich Steven Bruning Tim McDowell Todd Jekel Vern Smith Warren Clough Wayne Borrowman William Lull

Willie DuPont Xudong Wang Yuebin Yu Yuguo Li Zheng O’Neil Zuraimi Sultan

Research Work Statement Authors
Work Statement Authors 11 – 12 FY (ASHRAE Research is very thankful to the numerous individuals who freely gave their time and dedication to the research development process).

Aflal Rahmathullah Alecia Ward Andy Pearson Ashish Mathur Bipin Shah Carl Hiller Charlie Curcija Chris Baker Daniel Int-Hout David Eljadi

David Hinde David Ellerbrock David Wyon David John Derek Schrock Doug Horton Doug Scott Drury Crawley Eric Werling Fred Lorch

Gary Klein Gemma Kerr Hal Levin Harvey Sachs James Pegues Jianshun Zhang Jim Lutz Joe Huang Jojo Castro Josh Wall

Kevin Mercer Lance DeLaura Larry Schoen Marc Scancarello Mark Johnson Mark Stutman Martha Hewett Mike Apte Neal Lott Nick Agopian

Paul Raymer Ray McGowan Raymond Thomas Rich Corsi Richard Hackner Robert Davis Robert Morris Robert Yost Steve Cornick Steve Emmerich

Stephen Kuiak Todd Jekel Warren Clough William Lull Willie DuPont Zheng O’Neil

Research Projects
Standard 155P

(The Research Strategic Plan is available at www.ashrae.org/technology/page/39.)

Seasonal 1196-RP Develop Software to Calculate the Application Based on Efficiency of Commercial Space Heating Boiler Systems ASHRAE
September 2000 – June 2013 (Completion tied to Standard 155) Iowa State University Principal Investigator, Ron Nelson TC 6.1, Hydronic and Steam Equipment and Systems

Boilers are estimated to account for 42% of space heating energy use in the commercial and multifamily sectors in the U.S. Significant energy savings could be achieved in commercial and multifamily buildings by optimizing the selection of commercial boiler systems in new buildings and at the time of boiler replacement. Currently, however, commercial boilers and all other types of commercial heating equipment are rated only in terms of steady-state efficiency at full load, which does not provide a meaningful indication of relative operating costs. The objective of this research project is to develop user-friendly windows-based software will greatly accelerate adoption of seasonal efficiency analysis for commercial boiler systems. A significant obstacle to the use of any new standard is the learning curve for users to become familiar with the new terminology and inputs and learn how to do the computations. With this software, the level of effort required of new users of the standard will be dramatically reduced, and can be focused on the more important tasks of evaluating outputs and developing an intuitive sense of the factors that affect the seasonal efficiency of commercial boiler systems. Comfort and Health Related 1262-RP Relate Air Quality and Other Factors to and Crew on Commercial Symptoms Reported by Passengers Transport Aircraft (Part 2)
January 2007 – January 2013 (P); Battelle Memorial; Principal Investigator, Ann Louise Sumner; TC 9.3, Transportation Air Conditioning

•	 Measure and characterize contaminants in cabin air that are not introduced via ECS. Ventilation rates shall be assessed; •	 Quantify the effect of aircraft type, maintenance, APU, engine age and operationsrelated parameters on cabin and bleed air quality; and •	 Investigate relationship of the measured cabin air contaminants, ventilation rates and other factors with reported symptoms among passengers and flight crew. Development of an ASHRAE Design Manual for District Heating 1267-RP and Cooling Systems
April 2008 – June 2013 (P); GWA Research, LLC; Principal Investigator, Gary Phetteplace; TC 6.2, District Energy; Emirates Central Cooling Systems Corporation, Dubai (Empower) $110,000 co-funder

The objective of this project is to develop a comprehensive design guide for district heating and cooling (DHC) systems and a separate design guide with additional information dedicated to district cooling (DC) only. The emphasis would be on community-wide planning, thermal distribution and consumer interconnect. Guidance is generally less accessible in these areas and familiarity in the engineering community is much less prevalent. Users of the guides will be better able to assess the applicability of DHC and DC systems and prepare feasibility studies to support their DHC and DC evaluations.

1284-RP

Develop a Standard for Testing and Stating the Efficiency of Industrial Pulse Cleaned Dust Collectors

April 2006 – January 2013 (P); Blue Heaven Technologies, LLC; Principal Investigator, Robert Burkhead; TC 5.4, Industrial Process Air Cleaning

The principal aim of this research project is to relate perceptions of discomfort or health related symptoms of flight attendants and passengers to possible causal factors, including cabin and bleed air quality and other factors such as reduced air pressure, jet lag, inactivity, humidity, flight attendant duty schedule and fatigue, circadian rhythm, stress and noise. In particular, the following specific objectives are to be addressed in Part 2 of this project: •	 Measure and characterize contaminants in cabin air that are introduced via ECS in a variety of airplane types;

Although ASHRAE Standard 52 and RP-671 deal with test methods for evaluation of general ventilation air cleaners, their particulate loading rates are so low that they are not practical to evaluate industrial air cleaning equipment. Further, these test methods do not take into account the automatic cleaning methods that are usually in industrial air cleaners to keep a steady pressure drop, yet the cleaning action can result in increased emissions. As a result, there is a great need for a performance test procedure that addresses the higher particulate loading, and the wide variety of particulate contaminant types to permit measurement and reporting of the mass emissions and fractional collection of efficiency of industrial air cleaning devices.

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