Chillers remove heat from the building and dump that heat outside via a cooling tower or an air-cooled condenser. Then somewhere else in the building… at the exact same time… a gas fired boiler or water heater is turning on to heat domestic water, a swimming pool, or even a different room of that same building that is running cooling. Seems wasteful, right? Well, it is. What if there was a way to use that waste heat from the chiller to heat something else instead of expelling it outside? Well, there is a well-established solution for this dilemma called a Heat Recovery or Heat Reclaim Chiller. Join us on this month’s webinar to understand how these systems work and where they can be applied.

Heat Pumps? In Chicagoland? Yep, absolutely. And a dual fuel hybrid system, which combines a heat pump with a natural gas heater, is one of the best ways to do it. Did you know that a dual fuel system results in lower carbon emissions than either an all gas or an all-electric system? And dual fuel system owners pay less in total gas and electric costs? And they have a little bit of redundancy if one of their systems should be offline. If you have no idea how a heat pump works, what dual fuel means, or how any of these savings statements can be true, we implore you to join us on this webinar.

Your customers have no clue how their gas and electric bills work. It shows up in their mail, they complain about it being high, and then they pay it not understanding exactly what they are paying for or how to reduce it. And since you also probably have no clue (no offense) about the line items on a typical bill, you should join us for this webinar to get a better understanding of electric and gas bills, how to explain them in laymen’s terms, and some of the HVAC related strategies that can be implemented to reduce both usage and demand charges.

Over-ventilating wastes energy and money. Under-ventilating makes people sick. There is a fine balance between these scenarios and it is up to us to find creative ways to satisfy both sides of the argument. This session will cover one such solution, CO2-based Demand Controlled Ventilation. Using CO2 sensors to control ventilation is hardly a new concept, but because of energy code requirements in Illinois and utility rebate incentives, it has gained acceptance by a much broader audience. Please join us as we discuss demand controlled ventilation (DCV) concepts, energy savings, control sequences, energy and mechanical code requirements, and, of course, the utility rebate money to make it all happen.

With IAQ concerns in every facility and energy prices on the rise, what is a HVAC system designer to do? Energy recovery systems can bring in code required outside air and save energy doing it. Attendees will learn about applications appropriate for using energy recovery, the different types of energy recovery equipment, and how to calculate energy savings and ROI.