Come join us for the May 2015 monthly meeting of the ASHRAE Hawaii Chapter!

  Where to Park

 Meeting Agenda

Registration - 5:30

Technical Presentation - 6:00

Dinner - 7:00

Main Program - 7:30

Adjournment - 9:00

Technical Presentation

Topic: Designing Energy Efficient Data Centers

Presenter: Matt Kightlinger, Director of Sales, West Region, Emerson Network Power

Matt Kightlinger has 15 years of experience serving the mission-critical data center market with Emerson Network Power / Liebert.  His past jobs include Sales Executive, Strategic Sales Manager, Director of Solutions, and General Manager at Liebert Northwest.

Matt earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Business Marketing from Ohio University, and his Masters of Business degree from Ashland University.  His hobbies include vacationing in Hawaii and golf.

Main Program

Topic: HVAC System Design for University of Chicago - New Educational Building

The May 2015 technical program will feature a presentation from the students from University of Hawaii at Manoa (UHM). The presentation will be a review of the students final design project that was submitted for their ME 417 Course in Applied Thermal Engineering. The student’s design is an adaptation of the 2015 ASHRAE Student Design Competition. Unlike other years, The 2014 Fall Semester of ME 417 course consisted of only 6 students, which formed a singular design team that worked together on the project. Three of them will make their final presentation on May 11, 2015.

The purpose of the design project was to design an HVAC system for a newly constructed educational building on the University of Chicago campus. The building will be a 3 story classroom building that will also include spaces for administration faculty offices and computer labs to help accommodate expanding enrollment at the University. The design is intended to be dependable and economically viable for a 20 year life span.

ASHRAE standards 55, 62.1, 90.1, and 189.1 as well as the ASHRAE Handbook were used as guidelines for the design. A commercial software program, provided by MCE International, was used to calculate heating and cooling loads for the proposed building. These results were compared and validated using the “first cut” hand calculated estimate as taught by Professor Ting.

The students reviewed many systems and zeroed?in to two systems. The first system used chilled water/medium hot water services from central utilities plant of the University of Chicago and eliminated it. The second system utilized the packaged rooftop units. The third system used its own dedicated chiller/boiler complete with its air distribution system utilizing air handlers/VAV boxes. The systems were compared using life cycle cost analysis, which included initial costs as well as operation and maintenance cost.

In addition to the life cycle costs, other considerations included indoor air quality, energy conservation, energy performance and system selection. Due to the nature of the building, specific consideration were taken to accommodate the various activities and requirements of each room including but not limited to high people density classrooms, labs requiring high exhaust, and 24 hour computer labs.

The process of analyzing the requirements, designing a system and selecting equipment was instrumental in the student’s level of understanding of HVAC systems. As each student was involved in the process, they learned not only about designing a HVAC system but also in working as a team and the importance of seeking out people with the knowledge to help with questions and difficulties.

At the request of Professor Ting, Garret Lau of MCE International, Mofazzal Mir of InSynergy Engineering Inc., and, Rudolph J. Ritter of Trane Pacific generously offered their time and knowledge to the students. The students are grateful for their help and patience as they mentored and gave guidance over the course of the semester.

Presenters: Frankie Chan, Yiyang Xiao, Mary Mudrick

Frankie Chan graduated from UHM as a Mechanical Engineer in December 2014. He was born in Hong Kong and grew up in Honolulu. As the only child of an immigrant family, Frankie decided at a young age to stay in Hawaii upon graduation, in order to give back what his parents have done for him. During his middle and high school years, he participated in many engineering competitions locally and internationally, such as the 1st robotics competition and VEX robotics competition. He continued to participate in competition during college. Along with his classmates during their Senior Year, Frankie competed in the Formula SAE Race Car competition in Lincoln, Nebraska. His favorite hobby would be traveling and photography.

Yiyang Xiao is currently a Mechanical Engineering senior at UHM, and will be graduating in May 2015. He is currently an intern at Highway Division, State Department of Transportation. He also volunteered at planning branch of DAGS (Department of Accounting and General Service) for the past year. Upon graduation, Yiyang looks forward to practice his engineering in the HVAC industry as a consultant. His interests are swimming, badminton, fishing and watching movies.

Mary Mudrick will also be graduating with her Mechanical Engineering degree in May 2015. She is looking forward to sleeping again and having time for her two hobbies: travel and sewing. Her love of traveling led her to opportunities to spend a summer doing a physics research program at Montana State University as well as a summer in France studying renewable energy and project management. During her time in the UHM College of Engineering, she has worked on a Mars Robot as well as participating in the Formula SAE project in her senior year. Mary was born and raised on Maui and plans to stay in Hawaii to be close to her family.