Product Training Videos
Psychedelics Psychrometrics For Dummies
A very special thank you to our guest presenter, Jason Leffingwell from Grumman Butkus Associates.
CHALLENGE: Last year our most popular class was Electricity for Dummies. I’ll just bet we’re scratching another itch with this course content.
WHO’S IT FOR:
1. If you don’t know what the psychometric chart is.
2. If you pretend you know the psychometric chart, but don’t.
3. If you need a refresher course every time you use the psychometric chart.
4. If you think you know how to use the psychometric chart and want to be sure!
TOPICS COVERED: You guessed it, psychometrics for HVAC applications. We’ll also cover some load calculation basics and even size a few pieces of equipment!
SUBJECT LENGTH: 2 hours. Subscribe to our YouTube channel for more educational webinars such as this one. We’re here to help you enhance your HVAC product and equipment knowledge.
Next Generation Terminal Box Offering
Your client wants a central geothermal system, but the maintenance staff wants VAV boxes because, well, that’s what they want. Now you’ve got a low water temperature to deal with, so there’s more VAV box coil rows, extra fan horsepower, and more noise. Sounds like a recipe for a lot of submittal review!
WHO’S IT FOR: Consulting engineers and design build contractors who want to optimize their VAV systems.
SUBJECTS COVERED: Price’s new terminal box lineup built specifically to optimize performance for low water temperature systems. Presentation covers new Price models never seen before!
SUBJECT LENGTH: 2 hours
Earn PDH credits
MANUFACTURERS REPRESENTED: Price Industries
Non-conformist Ventilation
Watch our HVAC training session, “Non-conformist Ventilation”. It’s an opportunity to experience the Upside Down. Tom Gelin delves into the Stranger Things alternate universe to explain the critical aspects of Displacement Ventilation. And because we’re displacement fanatics around here, the video features plenty of smoke videos! A very special thank you to our guest presenters from Price Industries and Ring & DuChateau, LLP | Consulting Engineers!
WHO’S IT FOR: Contractors, engineers and their support teams
SUBJECTS COVERED: First principles (heat rises) and the applications of displacement and stratified systems.
SUBJECT LENGTH: 1 hour 50 minutes
Earn PDH credits
MANUFACTURERS REPRESENTED: Price Sustainable
Magically Clean Up Your Rooftop Selections
WHO’S IT FOR: Anyone who picks RTUs
CHALLENGE: Picture Mary Poppins gently dropping from a rooftop, guided by her umbrella. Conversely, the reason she is up there isn’t fun, toiling as a chimney sweep. You may be in the same boat, preferring to avoid the dirtiness of a rooftop selection. Rest assured; we’ll turn it from a chore to something magical once again.
SUBJECTS COVERED: Efficiency standards, economics of RTUs by size, and the accessories that can make or break your project
SUBJECT LENGTH: 1 hour 38 minutes
Earn PDH/CEU credits
MANUFACTURERS REPRESENTED: Tempmaster
Industry Testing Standards of HVAC Equipment (AMCA, AHRI, AMCA Sound)
WHO’S IT FOR: The entire HVAC industry
CHALLENGE: There is a difference between expectations and reality. Are you the type of person to lament a loss or embrace reality? HVAC testing can create certain expectations, often with disappointing realities.
SUBJECTS COVERED: Test setups for lots of HVAC equipment. Fans, grilles, terminal boxes, silencers, panels, dampers, louvers, life safety, you name it.
SUBJECT LENGTH: 1 hour 37 minutes
Earn PDH credits
MANUFACTURERS REPRESENTED: Price Industries, Ruskin, Detroit Radiant Products
Antec Controls and the Science of Air Flow Control and Measurement
WHO’S IT FOR: Healthcare, lab, and high-performance system engineers
CHALLENGE: Santiago, the protagonist in The Alchemist, is armed with a beginner’s mindset. He is guided by sages who encourage him to know himself. Through his journey, he comes across others who skip important steps and lose their way. You are faced with the same choice. Will you skip the steps, follow the conventional wisdom, or learn for yourself? Will you turn your own lead into gold?
SUBJECTS COVERED: Controls of specialty terminals, venturis via pressure and air flow measurement
SUBJECT LENGTH: 1.5 hours
Earn PDH credits
MANUFACTURERS REPRESENTED: Antec Controls
Electricity for Dummies Mechanicals
WHO’S IT FOR: Mechanical professionals that want to understand electricity.
SUBJECTS COVERED: 1. Basics of electricity and distribution 2. Overcurrent protection, fuses, circuit breakers and sizing 3. Short circuit current ratings, system coordination and arc flash ratings 4. Basics of power quality or grounding of electrical systems
SUBJECT LENGTH: 2 hours
Earn PDH credits
FACILITATOR: Ring & DuChateau’s Electrical Department Lead, Christopher Ulm
Duct Leakage For Engineers
SUBJECT: Indoor and outdoor, high- and low-pressure duct systems and the accessories and components that cause leakage.
WHO’S IT FOR: Engineers who want to understand the details and are interested in saving every cfm of filtered, conditioned air that they have.
SUBJECT LENGTH: 2 hours
Earn PDH credits
MANUFACTURERS & ASSOCIATION REPRESENTED: Price Industries, Thermaduct, Koolduct, and Sheet Metal & Air Conditioning Contractors’ National Association (SMACNA)
Controlling Office Building Comfort Through Air Distribution
SUBJECT: The assignment is comfort. Your customer is building a boutique office building, intended to attract the best of the best of her industry.
CHALLENGE: Comfort and individual room control is the new standard, but at the same time, the project has cost constraints.
YOU MUST: Present multiple options for the customer’s leadership team.
WHO THIS HVAC TRAINING IS FOR: The innovators of your engineering teams.
SUBJECTS COVERED:
– Diffuser deep dive (how does a diffuser really work vs. what the catalog says) presented by Price CFD
– Isothermal vs. real performance in heating and cooling
– When to use specialty diffusers, or always use a plaque?
– Displacement for comfort presented by Price destratification team
– Individual room control for comfort presented by Price Controls
– Radiant heating and/or cooling systems in concert with air distribution presented by Price Sustainability
SUBJECT LENGTH: 3 hours
PDH/CEU available: 3 hours
MANUFACTURERS REPRESENTED: Price Predict CFD, Price Industries Sustainable, Acutherm and Price Electronics
Optimizing Heating Devices for Low Water Temperature
CHALLENGE: Your electrified building makes use of a heat recovery chiller that supplies only 120F water.
YOU MUST: Address heating your building with a baseline hot water temperature of 120F. Oh yes, the architect loves glass.
WHO’S IT FOR: Mechanical engineers, design build contractors, all levels.
SUBJECTS COVERED INCLUDE:
- Combined Heat and Power
- Price’s Industries Chilled Beam and Radiant Products
- Linear floor terminals
Earn PDH credits
Manufacturers represented: Yanmar, Price Industries Software Group and Price Industries Sustainable Group
Pursuing Dust Collection Systems Safety
SUBJECT: Dust collection systems must adhere to NFPA code. We’ll explore the language, what it all means and how to collect dust properly.
WHO’S IT FOR: Anyone who works with dust collection systems. Schools, mechanical engineers for the school market, manufacturing and insurance carriers.
SUBJECTS COVERED INCLUDE:
- Combustible dust
- Dust collection safety devices
- Dust collection equipment
SUBJECT LENGTH: 1 hour, 45 minutes
Earn PDH credits
Manufacturers represented: Imperial Systems
Wrestling with Electrification and Carbon Footprint
WHO’S IT FOR: Customer-facing engineering team members, experienced engineers and energy modelers.
SUBJECTS COVERED INCLUDE:
- CHP (combined heat and power)
- Gas fired heat pumps and VRF
- Cold Climate Heat Pumps
Earn PDH credits
Manufacturers represented: Yanmar and Kinghome by Gree
Uncovering Four Ways to Dry Out Your Client’s Building
WHO’S IT FOR: Experienced mechanical engineers and contractors that do some work with dehumidification systems.
SUBJECTS COVERED INLCUDE:
- Universal laws of humidity migration control
- Maximize the dehumidification controls of rooftop units with Tempmaster
- Traditional desiccant wheel systems with BryAir
- Liquid Desiccant solutions with AirGreen.
Earn PDH credits
Solving Advanced Acoustic Challenges
WHO’S IT FOR: The problem solver in your office
SUBJECTS COVERED INCLUDE:
- Understand the acoustic section of catalog data
- Terminal devices with integral sound control
- Noise control options for chillers and loud rooftop equipment
- Generator noise including property line requirements and solutions
- Case study addressing hospital exhaust fan noise
- Case study addressing exposed air terminal units in occupied spaces
- Case study addressing large equipment noise transmission
Prerequisite: more than five years of relevant experience
Earn PDH credits
Manufacturer represented: Price Noise Control
Understanding Duct Acoustics 101
WHO’S IT FOR:
All engineers and contractors who do not have experience with Acoustic Analysis tools.
SUBJECTS COVERED INCLUDE:
- Acoustic basics specific to duct path (supply and return, insertion loss, breakout noise, etc.)
- Make use of Acoustic Analysis free software to model sound paths
- Make use of manufacture’s Acoustic Analysis services that include recommendations and product selections
- Review other sound reduction methods (lined duct, flex duct, return air canopy (RAC), sound boots, lined plenums)
- Case study addressing mechanical room (MER) noise to surrounding occupied spaces
- Case study addressing rooftop equipment noise to surrounding occupied spaces
- Case study addressing office speech privacy between adjacent spaces
Earn PDH credits
Manufacturers represented: Price Industries and Noise Control
Dealing with Products that are a Pain in the Ass to Select
This training session covers:
- GRD’s
- Terminal Units
- Noise Control
- Revit
Who it’s for: Mechanical Engineers and Mechanical Contractors with less than five years of experience.
Earn PDH credits
Manufacturer represented: Price Industries
Learning About Large Building Heating and Control
This training session covers:
- Makeup air system selection
- Managing large exhaust fan selections for design, performance and maintenance
- When to incorporate industrial air curtains
- Destratification
- Infrared
Who it’s for: Mechanical Engineers and Mechanical Contractors with more than five years of experience.
Earn PDH credits
Manufacturers represented: Detroit Radiant, AbsolutAire, Powered Aire, Loren Cook and Airius
Understanding Fan Basics
This training session covers: Fan curves, Fan wheels, Fan laws, Fan software and more!
Who it’s for: Mechanical Engineers and Mechanical Contractors with less than five years of experience.
Earn PDH credits
Manufacturer represented: Loren Cook
Embracing Advanced Fan Training
A challenge for the pros on fan selection with an assortment of challenging topics in this training session.
This informative training session is for experienced mechanical engineers and contractors that do some work in specialty markets (food, industrial and wastewater).
Earn PDH credits
Manufacturer represented: Loren Cook
Discovering Humidification in Reverse
SUBJECT: Humidifiers have a lot of challenges. Let’s talk about what goes wrong first, and then design our way out of trouble.
CHALLENGE: With every humidifier, there’s an opportunity for a problem with every turn. Identify and prepare for them. WHO’S IT
FOR: Project managers and engineers of all experience levels
SUBJECTS COVERED: • Everything that ever went wrong with a humidifier • Types • Selection/sizing • Layout • Controls • Maintenance • Water quality
Earn PDH credits
Manufacturer represented: Neptronic
Silencer Selections and Acoustic Analysis
Option 1 – I need a silencer, 60x30x72 and can allow 0.2” of static. Whatcha got?
Option 2 – I’m putting a new rooftop on a building. Do I need a silencer?
You have the ability to answer your own questions, or at least understand what the silencer people do when they cook up an answer to your application. Learn it all here, and DIY if you like.
At least you can learn enough to call BS when you’re getting a line of nonsense.
Gree Heat Pump
You can’t use heat pumps in Northern Climate! This video addresses that statement, and introduces a heat pump that can withstand a Wisconsin or Michigan winter.
How can it produce enough heat in cold climates? Isn’t gas cheaper than electricity? Is it easy to install? What about a retrofit? Would it work for apartments? How much does it cost?
All these questions, and more, as we evaluate the eventual replacement of the furnace.
Do It Yourself Displacement Ventilation
This video features a little bit about ‘why displacement’, particularly when considering tiny infectious particles suspended and propagated in our buildings.
Displacement also requires a different set of calculations, but we show you how to make use of Price’s software to make quick conversions from mixing to DV spaces.
If the engineer can inspect the merit of displacement on the front end of a project and compare to mixing, it often makes a case for itself.
It’s not that hard, and this video shows you how.
Fan Selections with Tom
If you open up the fan program or catalog, there are a lot of models to choose from. Too many.
The purpose of this video is to help you understand that there are only a few decisions that are required.
If you are able to read a fan curve, by the end of this video you’ll be able to improve your selection criteria. Then it’s 1-2-3.
What wheel? What box? Where’s the motor go?