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Title: Monthly Meeting

Date: May 9, 2012 – Wednesday

Time: 11:45 AM-1:00 PM

Place: Idaho Power Building, 1221 West Idaho Street, Boise, ID

March Program Details:

This month’s chapter meeting will be a presentation of “Thermodynamics & Application of Air to Air Heat Exchangers” by Mark Johnson from Xetex, Inc.

Speaker bio:

Education: Bachelor’s of Mechanical Engineering University of Minnesota, Masters of Science Mechanical Engineering, Department of Thermodynamics and Fluid Flow University of Minnesota.  Experience in teaching high speed compressible fluid flow with applications and currently assist graduate students design their imperial thermodynamic and/or fluid flow experiments in one of the thermo laboratories at the University of Minnesota.  He is the co-author of the paper “Heat and mass transfer characteristics of a rotating regenerative total energy wheel” published in the International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer.

He has been certified by the State of NY for continuing education, lectured to the NY / NJ Port Authority Engineers, was invited guest speaker for ASHRAE in Alaska 10-06 (both the Fairbanks and Anchorage Chapters), was a guest lecturer University of Alaska ME senior class Fairbanks Campus, was a lecturer to the US Corps of Army Engineers Far East District, and also lectured to the Ministry of Construction (Energy Conservation Branch) Beijing China 05-07

Most recent accomplishments: Worked with client to designed energy efficient unit containing compressors and exchangers (reusing the latent heat of condensation) to dry types of grains using the minimum possible energy.  Also worked with a leader in motion control to design heat dissipation units for very large VFDs (1500 to 9000 HP) as well as heat dissipation units for 370 mega Watt circuit breakers and computer rooms.

Attention ASHRAE members: Please see below for information on the 2012 Idaho ASHRAE technical conference at the Oxford Suites in Boise, Idaho.

2012 Idaho ASHRAE Tech Conf Agenda and Menu

2012 ASHRAE Registration-Sponsorship Form

Idaho ASHRAE 2012 Technical Conference
Oxford Suites
1426 Entertainment Avenue, Boise
April 20, 2012

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Title: Monthly Meeting

Date: March 14, 2012

Time: 11:45 AM

Place: PAYETTE BREWING COMPANY, 111 W. 33RD STREET, BOISE, IDAHO, 83714

March Program Details:

Michael Francis, founder of Payette Brewing, started his career after graduating with a degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Washington.  He began working for Boeing in Seattle as an industrial engineer in Flight Test Manufacturing; one of Boeing’s machine shops that specialized in making fixtures and parts that were used in testing new and current airplanes.  After his time in Flight Test, he moved to an IE position on the 737 Final Assembly.  On the 737 assembly, his job focused on process improvement for the teams of mechanics that installed the landing gear.  After 2.5 years at Boeing, he decided to change his career path and left to attend the Siebel Institute of Technology in Chicago where he received his associated in Brewing Technology. Upon completing the Siebel course, he returned to Seattle where he began an internship at Schooner Exact Brewing.  After gaining experience in a small craft brewery, he returned to Boise, where he founded Payette Brewing Company.

During the tour, we will be going through the entire brewing process, starting with milling the malted barley through kegging the finished beer.  Aspects that will be covered in depth include: raw materials, milling, the mash, sparging, fermentation, conditioning, carbonation, kegging, yeast handling, quality  control and more.  Participants will get to see, smell and taste the different raw ingredients used in the brewing process and of course sample some of the finished product.

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Title: Monthly Meeting
Date: February 8, 2012
Time: 11:45 AM
Place: IDAHO POWER BUILDING, 1221 W. IDAHO STREET, BOISE, IDAHO

February Program Details:

This month’s chapter meeting will be a presentation of “Variable Frequency Drives and Harmonics” by Jon Axtman from the Idaho Power Company.

Speaker bio:

Jon has worked in the Power Quality department for the past six years.  He has performed over 200 harmonic evaluations and has conducted multiple  nvestigations into harmonic related problems originating both on the power distribution system as well as within customer facilities. Jon is a licensed engineer in the state of Idaho and a graduate of Boise State University.