Episode 5 | HVACR APPLICATIONS

Welcome to the fifth episode of the Gamma Technologies’ GT Tech Talk! In this episode, hosts Abhishek Jain, PhD and Divya Thiagarajan, PhD are joined by Jon Zenker (Head of Strategic Markets) and Rodrigo Aihara (Senior Staff Application Engineer, Thermal Fluid Systems) to discuss heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and refrigeration (HVACR) applications!

Episode Timestamps

• 0:00 – Introduction to guests, Jon Zenker and Rodrigo Aihara
• 4:18 – Trends in the HVACR industry: engineering efficient compressors and CO2 gigaton challenge
• 10:05 – HVACR design and component modeling solutions using system-level simulation
• 11:36 – What’s the difference between an air conditioner vs a heat pump?
• 14:27 – Different types of compressors and how they are used
• 15:50 – The major components studied within HVAC systems
• 17:23 – How GT-SUITE can simulate various HVAC system behavior – steady state and transient events
• 21:29 – How do heat pumps work in freezing Chicago winters?
• 23:28 – GT-SUITE’s frost and defrost models
• 24:35 – How heat sources and HVAC as a whole are evolving
• 30:00 – Leading HVACR companies case studies using GT-SUITE
• 32:26 – What is vapor injection and what is an economizer?
• 34:02 – Closing remarks – global cooling challenge

Mentions in the show

Learn more about our HVACR solutions

Full list of HVACR related presentations

See various compressor case studies

Pumps and compressors simulation solutions

2022 US GT Technical Conference (GTTC) presentation from Copeland (FKA Emerson)

Learn how Trane Trane utilized GT-SUITE to solve a performance shortfall in a scroll compressor