July 2002

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BFRL Hosts Workshop on Refrigerant/Lubricant Issues

BFRL hosted a workshop on Refrigerant/Lubricant Issues in Boiling Heat Transfer and Two-Phase Flow at the Gaithersburg campus on June 6. Workshop participants were refrigeration and air-conditioning researchers and scientists from industry, trade organizations, and government. The workshop was organized and chaired by BFRL’s Mark Kedzierski, who described NIST’s fundamental research on the phase-change behavior of refrigerant/lubricant mixtures. Mark McLinden from Boulder’s CSTL co-chaired the workshop and gave an update on NIST’s ubiquitous refrigerant property software REFPROP. Kedzierski and McLinden used the workshop as an aid for charting future research directions. Participants encouraged NIST to continue its fundamental/detailed measurement role and to focus on identifying controlling mechanisms for the interaction between refrigerants and lubricants.

Contact: 
Mark Kedzierski, 301-975-5282
Building Environment Division

 

BFRL Awards Communication and Communicator Awards for 2001

BFRL annually recognizes staff members who have excelled in communicating the results of their research to their customers and the profession. The quality of the communications and their impact are both considered. The recognitions for calendar year 2001 were made at a BFRL staff meeting on June 13. Plaques and cash awards were given to Clarissa Ferraris for the Communication of the Year and to Stuart Dols as Communicator of the Year. Ferraris published the results of the first-ever head-to-head international comparison that she organized of concrete rheometers, whose measurements have the potential of providing a strong scientific basis for determining the workability of concrete. Dols completed a series of communications over several years to demonstrate the benefit of and educate the profession on multizone airflow and contaminant dispersal modeling. They included an extensive Web page where the program CONTAM can be downloaded along with an electronic version of the users manual, a tutorial for new users, files of input data, and sample applications. He also published archival papers, conducted training courses for new users, and taught a short course on the subject at a professional society meeting.

Contact: 
Jim Hill, 301-975-5900

BFRL Headquarters

BFRL Papers Celebrating the NIST Centennial Win National Awards

BFRL organized a special symposium at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) to celebrate the centennial of NIST and the strong long-standing relationship between the two organizations. The symposium was held in Cincinnati, Ohio, in June 2001 and consisted of five papers given by NIST staff, NIST alumni, and others in the industry who spoke about NIST research that had a significant impact on the industry over the previous 100 years. Three of those presentations were given “best paper of the year” awards for 2001 at the most recent annual meeting in June 2002. Current staff Robert Zarr and David Didion and NIST alumnus Jim Heldebrand received awards for their three respective papers: “A History of Testing Heat Insulators at the National Institute of Standards and Technology,” “The History of NIST’s Refrigerants Program: Part 1—Zeotropic Mixture Cycles and Heat Transfer,” and “NBS Research and ASHRAE’s 90 Series Standards.”

Contact: 
Jim Hill, 301-975-5900

BFRL Headquarters

BFRL Solar Team Receives 2002 ASME BEST Paper Award

Mark Davis, Brian Dougherty, and Hunter Fanney were awarded a 2002 ASME Best Paper Award for the paper “Short Term Characterization of Building Integrated Photovoltaics” at the Solar 2002 National Solar Energy Conference. All three authors received an attractive certificate and were honored at an ASME luncheon. In addition to the award, the paper will receive special recognition upon publication in ASME’s Journal of Solar Energy Engineering.

The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and the American Solar Energy Society (ASES) jointly sponsored the Solar 2002 Conference. More than 1,000 people attended the conference, and approximately 150 papers were presented during this four-day event.

This is the second consecutive year that NIST’s Building Integrated Photovoltaics Team received an ASME best paper award. The paper resulted from research sponsored by BFRL, the Advanced Technology Program, and the California Energy Commission. The award may be viewed at http://bfrliweb.nist.gov/bfrlnews/ASMEbestpaper.htm.

Contact: 
Hunter Fanney, 301-975-5864
Building Environment Division

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