Looking Back, Actual Energy Use of Chilled Beam Laboratories

Peter Rumsey, PE, Integral Group

Peter Rumsey will present the results of a survey of operating chilled beam heated and cooled laboratories. He has been collecting energy use data for chilled beam facilities in the West Coast. This data will be compared to energy use of more standard VAV with Reheat laboratories. Some of the facilities that will be presented are on the campuses of Caltech, Stanford, Sierra Nevada College and UC Davis. Chilled beam heating and cooling systems have the potential to significantly reduce fan energy use in labs. Peter will look at the fan system sizing for these systems compared to standard systems. The presentation will also leverage the Labs21 benchmarking database for points of comparison.

Biography:

Peter Rumsey is one of the country's leading practitioner of advanced low energy design of laboratory facilities. He is the first to use chilled beams in a lab. His design of the zero energy Venter Lab is the first net zero energy life sciences research facility. He has taught the Labs21 advanced course on ventilation systems. He is an ASHRAE Fellow, Senior Fellow of the Rocky Mountain Institute and registered as a LEED BD&C AP. He is a registered engineer in 10 states and teaches at Stanford University. Some of his more notable laboratory projects include the Tahoe Center for Environmental Sciences, the Caltech Linde and Robinson Lab and the Cal Poly Center for Science. All of which were designed to the LEEP Platinum Standard.

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