ASHRAE and United Nations Environment Programme OzonAction began the development of Assessing RAC Plant Sustainability under its Biennium Joint Work Plan of 2017-2018, entitled “Working beyond High-GWP Refrigerants.”
Assessing RAC Plant Sustainability was based on a four-stage plan developed by an ASHRAE Presidential Ad Hoc Committee. The plan aimed at creating an international reference in checklist form that would guide technicians and plant managers in the safe and sustainable operation and maintenance of air-conditioning and refrigeration plants. The work included a special focus on developing markets. It also was envisioned as laying the basis for a path that could verify compliance through a point-based qualification scheme.
An international team of experts in the field of RAC plant operations prepared the guidance, and before release, ASHRAE and UNEP conducted a pilot launch in both developed and developing countries to fine-tune the guidance to ensure applicability to the global market.
PRINCIPAL AUTHORS
Manuel Azucena, Director, Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning Technicians for Development of the Philippines (RACTAP) Inc., Manilla, Philippines
Danny Halel, Life Member ASHRAE, President, NTHALP Engineering, O’Fallon, Illinois, USA
Cesar Luis D.L. Lim, PE, Fellow Member ASHRAE, Managing Partner, Kilojoule Consultants Intl. Co., Manilla, Philippines
Carol Lomonaco, Member ASHRAE, Sr. Product Manager of Critical Systems, Johnson Controls, Inc., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Alaa A. Olama, Ph.D, Life Member ASHRAE, Head of the Overarching Codes Committees for Refrigeration and A.C. for Egypt, Member of UNEP RTOC committee, Cairo, Egypt
Howie McKew, Fellow/Life Member ASHRAE, President, Building Smart Software, LLC, Danville, NH, USA
Greg Jourdan, Member ASHRAE, Environmental Systems and Refrigeration Technology Faculty, Wenatchee Valley College, Wenatchee, Washington, USA
Arvind Surange, Eng, Fellow ASHRAE, Chairman and Managing Director, ACR Project Consultants Pvt Ltd, Pune, India
Ronald Viskil, Member ASHRAE, Manticorn bv, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Bill Walter, Life Member ASHRAE, Retired, Carrier Corporation, Syracuse, New York, USA
Essam Khalil, PhD, Fellow ASHRAE, Fellow AIAA, Fellow ASME, Professor Emeritus, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt (In Memoriam)
EDITOR
W. Stephen Comstock, Life Member ASHRAE, Senior Consultant UNEP/Retired Publisher,
ASHRAE GLOBAL PILOT COORDINATOR
Danny Halel, Life Member ASHRAE, President, NTHALP Engineering, O’Fallon, Illinois, USA
GLOBAL PILOT PARTICIPANTS
Richard Luhm, Memphis Mechanical Services, Inc., Memphis Tennessee, U.S.A.
Lee Caulder, Memphis Mechanical Services, Inc., Memphis Tennessee, U.S.A.
Cesar Luis Lim – Kilojoule Consultants Intl. Co., Manilla, Philippines
Ng Wen Bin, Refrigeration Engineering & Indoor Environment Research Center, University Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Dr. Kwame Owusu-Achaw, RAM Engineering, Ghana
Bill Walter, Carrier Corporation (Retired), Syracuse, New York, U.S.A.
Kodea Srinivas, RSP Design Consultants, Bengaluru, India