Expert Details
Cooling Systems for People & Equipment: HVAC Design and Climate Testing, HVAC Trouble Shooting, etc.
ID: 107711
California, USA
Expert has designed units consisting of refrigerant compressors, heat exchangers, fans, electrical heating elements, electrical controls, and temperature controls. He has also sized heat exchangers for custom application, including condensers, evaporators, and water coils.
Expert has researched comfort levels of people in dynamic applications such as rapid transit. This effort generated an ASHRAE research grant to Kansas State University to more accurately predict human transient and thermal loads. He has also chaired ASHRAE seminars dealing with Aircraft Cabin Air Quality and Sensory Panels in the Evaluation of Indoor Air Quality.
Expert can perform thermal analyses involving sensible and latent loads, conduction, atmospheric pressure, solar loads, and climates. His experience includes using the psychrometric chart for all altitudes.
Expert is experienced in fan and blower selection, installation, and the results of mis-application (encountered frequently). He is familiar with basic principles that must be followed if fans are to perform to their test curves and the derating factors when it is impossible to meet ideal installation criteria.
Expert designed and tested three transit bus air conditioning, heating, and defrosting systems, including much of the electrical power systems. These include the ROHR High Value Bus, DOT Transbus (all hydraulic drive), and the prototype Flexible 870 Bus. His experience with rail includes HVAC systems for AMTRAK, VTA (Santa Clara), MUNI (San Francisco), WMATA (Washington, D.C.), BART (San Francisco), and METRO (Los Angeles). He is currently consulting on new systems for the latter two.
Expert designed systems specifically for high-sensible thermal loading, such as electronic equipment racks. He has designed specific television industry mobile equipment systems, delivered to NBC Sports, and ABC. Most of these systems included custom HVAC units and ducting integrated into the industrial design.
Expert has supervised HVAC systems for U.S. Navy ships, including large cooling and ventilating systems involving chilled water and sea water heat rejection. He has also developed ventilation systems for smaller craft, including Patrol and commercial SWATH and SES boats.
Expert has extensive knowledge of refrigeration systems designed specifically for ships, road, and rail applications.
He is presently a consultant on three active projects with CH2M Hill for rail car air conditioning in Los Angeles and San Francisco. He has a consultant for climate and odor control in a scientific laboratory dealing with air quality.He has been asked to help solve product and system design problems.He has participated as an expert witness and assisted in forensic analysis.
Education
| Year | Degree | Subject | Institution |
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| Year: 1957 | Degree: B.S.M.E. | Subject: Mechanical Engineering | Institution: University of Wisconsin |
Work History
| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
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| Years: 1979 to Present | Employer: Undisclosed | Title: Owner/Independent Consultant | Department: |
Responsibilities:Began consulting for others while being employed full time. Initially this was in conjunction with Charles M. Richards, P.E. and gradually became a sole source of employment under his company name, HVAC Consulting Services. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1991 to 1997 | Employer: (Undisclosed) | Title: Sr. Staff Engineer | Department: (AlliedSignal-Torrance, CA) |
Responsibilities:Designed air conditioning units(packs) and related components for a number of aircraft. He also was the resident engineer at Teledyne-Ryan for the cooling system design for the UAV, Global Hawk. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1982 to 1991 | Employer: General Dynamics, Inc. | Title: Engineering Specialist | Department: |
Responsibilities:Designed units for missile pre-launch conditioning. He prepared conceptual designs for proposals. He was responsible for electronic cooling on aircraft being used to validate guidance equipment. He provided support for DC 10 and 11 aircraft programs. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1977 to 1982 | Employer: RMI, Inc. | Title: Supervisor, HVAC | Department: |
Responsibilities:Supervised a group of 11 engineers designing HVAC for a destroyer size Surface Effect Ship. He also prepared many conceptual designs for ferry and patrol boats. While here he was an expert witness for Rohr Industries for one year. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1969 to 1970 | Employer: Lockheed, Inc. | Title: Senior Engineer | Department: |
Responsibilities:Resolved air ducting design problems on the L-1011 passenger aircraft. Prior to this and after graduation, designing aircraft air conditioning units. |
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International Experience
| Years | Country / Region | Summary |
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| Years: 2000 to 2000 | Country / Region: Japan | Summary: Witnessed VTA (San Jose, CA) light rail car climate lab testing at the Kinkisharyo plant. |
| Years: 2000 to 2000 | Country / Region: Canada | Summary: Witnessed WMATA (Washington, DC) subway car climate lab testing at the UTC facility. |
| Years: 2002 to 2002 | Country / Region: Spain | Summary: Participated in a final design review and qualification testing for new HVAC equipment for WMATA subway cars. |
Career Accomplishments
| Associations / Societies |
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| Expert is a Fellow of the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) and a member of the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE). |
| Licenses / Certifications |
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| Expert has the following certification(s): EPA Clean Air Section 608 Universal HVAC and Section 609 MVAC. |
| Professional Appointments |
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| Expert is an appointed member of ASHRAE Technical Committees: TC 10.6 Transport Refrigeration (past chair), TC 9.6 Transportation Air-Conditioning (past chair), and TC 2.1 Physiology and Human Environment. He also is a voting member of GPC-23 Guideline for HVAC equipment for Rail Passenger Vehicles. He was a member of the Society Committee, Refrigeration for three years and served on the 2006 ASHRAE Technology Award judging panel. |
| Awards / Recognition |
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| Expert received a Distinguished Service Award in (Undisclosed) and was elevated to Fellow in (Undisclosed) by the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers |
| Publications and Patents Summary |
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| Expert is a continuing contributor to ASHRAE Handbooks dealing with transportation refrigeration and air conditioning. |
Additional Experience
| Expert Witness Experience |
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| Expert has prepared claims and exhibits, and has given testimony for claims before the Corps of Engineers Board of Contract Appeals. He has provided expert testimony for a prime contractor in U.S. Court - Tampa regarding the removal of a Clean Room sub-contractor. He has provided a report and deposition for the defense in an injury case before U.S. Court in Brooklyn, NY. |
| Vendor Selection |
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| Expert has experience locating vendors of HVAC-related products. He has access to the following resources: personal catalog files and an annual product display with over 1800 vendors. |
| Other Relevant Experience |
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| Expert has extensive experience with climate room testing, air flow, temperature, humidity, and pressure measurements. He is adept to finding root causes for HVAC system failures and in determining corrective action to improve reliability. |
Fields of Expertise
air-conditioning system, air conditioner, ventilation, thermal comfort, aircraft air conditioning, thermal load analysis, fan application, motor vehicle air-conditioning system, electronics cooling, refrigeration, air-cycle refrigeration, moisture sensor, mechanical refrigeration, internal flow, industrial air conditioning, indoor air pollution control, heat, heat transfer, heat pipe, thermal insulation product, heat exchanger, heat exchanger selection, heat convection, gas flow measurement, forced convection, fluid handling, flowmeter, fan, fan noise, evaporative cooling, control system, climate control, centrifugal fan, automotive electrical system, aircraft, actuator, bus (road vehicle), HVAC trouble shooting, heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and refrigeration, HVAC engineering, refrigerant piping, airflow measurement, air moisture, defrosting, thermal insulation foam, scroll compressor, chiller system, variable air volume system, air ducting, electric power system, rapid transit vehicle, refrigeration equipment, air cooling system, cooling system, pressure ventilation, refrigeration system controller, electronic equipment thermal design, thermal controller, duct pressure drop characteristic, air-cooled heat exchanger, refrigerant blend, industrial refrigeration, temperature sensor, HVAC noise, psychrometry, energy-efficient heating, ventilating and air-conditioning system, refrigerated food technology, low-temperature refrigeration, velocity measurement, energy-efficient vacuum insulation, cooling equipment, thermodynamic process, conventional space heating, measurement process, liquid state mechanics, gas mechanics, energy efficiency, human environmental physiology, heating equipment, ventilation fan, vaneaxial fan, mechanical valve, two-phase flow, tubeaxial fan, thermometry, thermal resistivity, refrigeration condenser, pump selection, pressure measurement, pneumatics, nitrogen refrigerant