ASHRAE Golden Gate Chapter

FEBRUARY 2009 DINNER MEETING

Using CO2-Sensors for Demand-Controlled Ventilation
Steve Taylor, Taylor Engineering
Thursday, February 5, 2008 (5:30 pm to 9:00 pm)
PG&E Pacific Energy Center, San Francisco (map & directions)

Agenda:

5:30 pm		Registration and social hour
6:30 pm		Dinner with announcements and introductions
7:45 pm		Break
8:00 pm		Speaker presentation
9:00 pm		Adjourn

Speaker(s):

Steve Taylor, Taylor Engineering
Taylor is the principal of Taylor Engineering, Alameda, CA. He is a registered mechanical engineer specializing in HVAC system design, control system design, indoor air quality engineering, computerized building energy analysis, and HVAC system commissioning. Mr. Taylor graduated from Stanford University with a BS in Physics and a MS in Mechanical Engineering and has over 30 years of commercial HVAC system design and construction experience. He was the primary author of the HVAC sections of ASHRAE Standard 90.1-1989 and 1999 Energy Standard and California’s Title 24 Energy Standards and Ventilation Standards. Other ASHRAE project and technical committees Mr. Taylor has participated in include Standard 62.1 Indoor Air Quality (chair), ASHRAE Standard 55 Thermal Comfort (member), Guideline 13 Specifying DDC (chair), Guideline 16 Economizer Dampers (chair), TC 1.4 Controls (chair), and TC 4.3 Ventilation (vice-chair).

Presentation
Summary:

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Steve Taylor will discuss how to correlate CO2 concentration to ventilation rates using both Standard 62.1 and Title 24 Ventilation Standards, how CO2 sensors work and the results of recent tests on actual sensor performance, how to use CO2 DCV for single zone systems, and how to use CO2 DCV for VAV systems.