Power Partners Teams with DOE's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory to Develop Breakthrough Commercial Air Conditioning Units
Power Partners is teaming with the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and Arkema Inc. on a $2.54 million research program to improve the efficiency and test new refrigerants in a type of air conditioning unit that runs on waste heat or heat from solar thermal collectors.
Power Partners' ECO-MAX Adsorption Chiller Will Provide Cooling for New U.S. Embassy in Monrovia, Liberia
The U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Overseas Building Operations has approved B.L. Harbert's submission of the Power Partners ECO-MAX adsorption chiller for use in the new U.S. embassy now under construction in Monrovia, Liberia.
Governor Perdue Announces Certified Work Ready Facilities; Power Partners Is One of 29 Georgia Companies Qualifying for Workforce Training Funds
Power Partners is one of 29 companies selected to receive funds from the State of Georgia to become Certified Work Ready facilities. Power Partners will use its grant award to cover costs associated with testing prospective employees to determine if they have the needed skill competencies, developing skill requirement profiles for Power Partners' new products, certifying selected company professionals in TWI (the Training Within Industry methodology fundamental to the famous Toyota Production Systems), and training company trainers in TWI.
Adsorption and Other Thermal Chillers Making Trigeneration Systems Work
One of the most efficient applications of cogeneration technology occurs where heat is provided in the winter, and cooling energy in summer. Thermal chillers are the device by which heating is turned into cooling. Wes Livingston of Power Partners, Inc., discusses technology options, including adsorption chillers.
The Value and Advantages of an Adsorption Chiller
Capturing and using waste heat could be one of the largest conservation and greenhouse gas reduction opportunities available, and adsorption chillers are a unique approach to achieving air conditioning and process cooling, according to this article in the September 2009 issue of North American Clean Energy.
Top 10 Technologies: Green Plant Infrastructure
In an article about the top ten technologies of the year, Chemo.Info magazine named green plant infrastructure one of those technologies and talked with Wes Livingston of Power Partners about adsorption chillers and other green heating and cooling developments.
Power Partners Receives ISO 14001 Environmental Management Certifications for Its Transformer and Solar Water Heater Products
The transformers and solar water heaters Power Partners produces have been certified as being in conformance with ISO 14001 international environmental management standards. The company will seek certification for its ECO-MAX chillers next.
Athens Manufacturer Goes Lean, Green with Georgia Tech
With its focus on manufacturing environmentally responsible products, it made sense for Power Partners to examine its own manufacturing processes. In a collaboration with Georgia Tech's Enterprise Innovation Institute, Power Partners made changes that resulted in an estimated energy savings of $600,000 and a reduction of water usage by 10,000 gallons daily.