On January 29, 2009, the federal government again proposed the Canada Consumer Product Safety Act (CCPSA), this time as Bill C-6. The CCPSA was first proposed by the Harper government in April 2008, following several high profile recalls and concerns about the health and safety risks of consumer products imported and/or sold in Canada. Bill C-52, as it was known then, died when the Canadian fed...

1 “Hot air rises!” This introductory sentence to Design Guide 1 states the obvious. But why does it sometimes rise and stay within the hood envelope and other times fill the kitchen with smoke, grease, and heat? Recent research sponsored by the American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air-conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) provided intriguing insights into this question. In addition to the ...

The use of setpoint temperatures based on adaptive thermal comfort models has been identified as an efficient energy saving measure in the latest years. recent studies applying consider ASHRAE and EN16798-1 international models. However, this study considered a local Japanese model instead. Therefore, analyses demand resulting from application compares it with worldwide Standard 55 other fixed ...

Energy simulation models are developed with EnergyPlus for two office buildings in a R&D center in Shanghai, China to evaluate the energy cost savings of green building design options compared with the baseline building. As a R&D center of an international IT corporation, there are data centers in the two buildings, which make them different from typical office buildings. The data centers house...

In this study, the air-side pressure drop and heat transfer performance of plate-fin and microchannel coils were tested under clean and fouled conditions. The heat exchangers were tested with two different types of dust, ASHRAE dust and Arizona Road Test Dust. The ASHRAE dust was found to have a very significant impact on the pressure drop of the microchannel heat exchanger, increasing the air-...

In this study, the air-side pressure drop and heat transfer performance of plate-fin and microchannel coils were tested under clean and fouled conditions. The heat exchangers were tested with two different types of dust, ASHRAE Standard Dust and Arizona Road Test Dust. The ASHRAE dust was found to have a very significant impact on the pressure drop of the microchannel heat exchanger, increasing...

It is well known that residential and commercial buildings account for about 40% of the overall energy consumed in the United States, and about the same percentage of CO2 emissions. Retrofitting existing old buildings, which account for 99% of the building stock, represents the best opportunity of achieving challenging energy and emission reduction targets. United Technologies Research Center (...

The role of ventilation in the housing stock is to provide fresh air and to dilute internally-generated pollutants in order to assure adequate indoor air quality. Energy is required to provide this ventilation service, either directly for moving the air or indirectly for conditioning the outdoor air for thermal comfort. Different kinds of ventilation systems have different energy requirements. ...