ASHRAE - Chennai Chapter & ISHRAE - Chennai Chapter

Presents
ASHRAE Distinguished Lecture Program on

Ventilation, IAQ and Energy issues in hot humid climates Past, Present and Future Decoupled ventilation strategies for enhanced IAQ Demand cooling and Demand ventilation

Date : 25th Feb 2013 Time : 4.00 pm to 7.00 pm Venue : Anna University Henry Moseley Hall

Speaker :

Dr. CHANDRA SEKHAR, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Department of Building National University of Singapore

ABOUT ASHRAE : ASHRAE (American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers , an individual membership society, is an international organization operated for the exclusive purpose of advancing the arts and sciences of HVAC&R to serve humanity and promote a sustainable world. ASHRAE is a worldwide body of 55,000 HVAC professionals with dissemination of knowledge as one of the main objectives. Membership in ASHRAE allows access to information about state of the art HVAC&R Technology and provides many oppurtunities to participate in the development of technology. For more information on ASHRAE visit www.ashrae.org. ASHRAE Chennai Chapter, the second in the South India was started this year and works to accomplish to fulll the goals of ASHRAE, USA .It conducts seminars, bi-monthly Technical Talks in the eld of heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration. ABOUT ISHRAE : ISHRAE (The Indian Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers) was founded in 1981 at New Delhi by a group of eminent HVAC&R professionals. ISHRAE has more than 8000 members in 34 chapters and over 3000 students in 75 student chapters, across India. ISHRAE organizes International and National Expositions, Seminars, Quiz programs, Paper Presentations, Training and Workshops to achieve its primary objective of furthering the Arts and Sciences of HVAC&R. ISHRAE publishes handbooks, technical guides, a quarterly journal, operates a web portal and develops software for the HVAC&R industry. ISHRAE is harmonising industry standards, publishing a new set of Indian weather data and is closely working with the Government of India in the area of energy conservation. Membership of ISHRAE is open to individuals from the HVAC&R and allied industries. ISHRAE is an afliate Society of ASHRAE. For more information on ISHRAE visit www.ishrae.in. The Chennai Chapter was founded in 1989. Since then the Chapter has successfully conducted many seminars on a variety of subjects. The chapter operates from its own premises fully equipped with a training centre. SEMINAR BACKGROUND : Ventilation, IAQ and Energy issues in hot humid climates Past, Present and Future This talk will provide an overview of the ventilation, IAQ and energy issues in commercial ofce buildings in hot humid climates. It presents the design challenges based on climatic differences with due consideration given to local codes and ASHRAE Standards 55, 62.1 and 90.1. Typical HVAC design for different building types in hot humid climates will be covered with emphasis on both design and part load characteristics. The role and importance of cooling and dehumidifying coil and limitations in conventional designs will be highlighted. Effective and practical zone-level ventilation control will be introduced and the notion of energy efcient healthy buildings will be presented. Decoupled ventilation strategies for enhanced IAQ Demand cooling and Demand ventilation The concept of decoupling ventilation air from supply air is fast emerging as an ideal solution to combat the problems associated with poor indoor air quality (IAQ). This talk will present the Personalised Ventilation (PV) system and the Single Coil Twin Fan (SCTF) system, which show considerable promise in their abilities to provide both good IAQ and energy efciency. The PV system is fundamentally aimed at improving ventilation in the immediate breathing zones of occupants in the built environment. The SCTF system is a new air-conditioning and air distribution system that improves occupants thermal comfort and indoor air quality whilst signicantly saving energy. It provides demand ventilation and demand cooling by dynamically responding to the varying requirements in the individual occupied zones of a building.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER : Dr Chandra Sekhar is currently an Associate Professor and Programme Director (M.Sc Building Performance and Sustainability) and Co-Programme Director (Integrated Sustainable Design) in the Department of Building at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He is also a Founding Director of Enhanced Air Quality Pte Ltd., a NUS Spin-off Company incorporated in June 2004, arising out of his research in the elds of indoor air quality (IAQ) and Energy. He has been an IAQ consultant in Singapore since 1993. He received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Adelaide, Australia, and continued as a postdoctoral fellow at the same university until 1991 where he worked towards the continued development of energy efcient cooling and dehumidication systems. In 1992, he joined NUS as a Faculty and has since been teaching and conducting research in the areas of ventilation and indoor air quality, air-conditioning and ventilation systems, building energy analysis and has published about 180 papers in these areas in several international journals and conferences. Dr Sekhar is an Associate Editor of ASHRAE HVAC&R Research journal and an editorial board member of Energy and Buildings journal (Elsevier), International Journal of Ventilation, Indoor and Built Environment & International Journal of Sustainable Built Environment. He is a regular reviewer of articles for several international journals, such as, ASHRAE HVAC&R Research Journal and Transactions; Indoor Air; Energy and Buildings; Building and Environment; Energy; Indoor and Built Environment. He holds 3 US and other patents in the area of energy efcient air-conditioning system with zonal ventilation control for enhanced indoor air quality. He is actively involved in the development of local IAQ, ventilation and energy standards in Singapore. He is a member of the International Scientic Committee of the Healthy Buildings, Indoor Air, ROOMVENT and IAQVEC series of conferences and was the Technical Co-Chair and member of the organising committee of the Healthy Buildings 2003, the Seventh International Conference in Singapore in 2003. He was the Chair of the Steering Committee for ASHRAE IAQ2010 conference in Kuala Lumpur (November 10-12, 2010). Dr Sekhar is a Fellow of ASHRAE and a Fellow of ISIAQ. He is a recipient of the ASHRAE Distinguished Service Award in 2010 and was the recipient of The Enterprise Challenge award of the Prime Ministers Ofce, Singapore in 2004. He is also a member of the Institution of Engineers, Australia (CPEng, IEAust). Within ASHRAE, he is currently the Vice Chair of Environmental Health Committee (EHC) and a member of SSPC 62.1, TC 2.1 and TC 4.3. He has also served the ASHRAE Singapore Chapter in various capacities (CTTC Chair, Honorary Secretary and President) and is currently the Immediate Past President of the chapter. WHO SHOULD ATTEND : The Seminar would be benecial to : Architects Consultants Builders and Developers HVAC and Energy engineers Facility Managers Project Managers Government Agencies Corporate Companies Building Owners Facility and Property Managers Chief Engineers and Maintenance Staff Energy Auditors and Engineers Design Professionals and retrot consultants Contractors and maintenance companies Eductational Institutions

REGISTRATION : The number of delegates is limited to ensure adequate participation. Registrations will hence be on rst-come-rst serve basis. The attached registration / nomination form along with the Cheque / DD towards delegate fee should reach the ofces of ASHRAE, Chennai Chapter at the following address before 23rd February 2013. ASHRAE - Chennai Chapter : New No.126, Old No.116, Habibullah Road, T. Nagar, Chennai - 600 017. Ph : 044 2834 4780, 2834 0512. Email : ashraechennai@gmail.com DELEGATE FEE : ASHRAE / ISHRAE Members Non Members PAYMENT : Cheques / Demand Drafts should be drawn in favour of ASHRAE - Chennai Chapter, payable at Chennai. The programme is nonresidential. VENUE : Anna University Henry Moseley Hall DATE : 25th February 2013 PROGRAMME : Registration : 4.30pm Program time : 5.00 7.30pm ADDITIONAL INFORMATION : V. Sridhar S. Sriram Krishnamurthy sridhar@enmac.in ssriram62@gmail.com ishraechennai@yahoo.com 9840992613 9840088366 9840478592 Rs.500/- per delegate. Rs.750/- per delegate.

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ASHRAE - Chennai Chapter & ISHRAE - Chennai Chapter

Presents
ASHRAE Distinguished Lecture Program on

Ventilation, IAQ and Energy issues in hot humid climates Past, Present and Future Decoupled ventilation strategies for enhanced IAQ Demand cooling and Demand ventilation
Date : 25th Feb 2013 Time : 4.00 pm to 7.00 pm Venue : Anna University Henry Moseley Hall
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