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Port has over 25 years of experience in the refrigeration industry, as a Contractor, Consulting Engineer, and End User. He has been a member of IIAR since 1991. He served for six years on the IIAR Board of Directors, (2004-2010). He was Chair of the Ventilation Taskforce and was involved with the work of the Standards Review Committee since the mid-1990s.

Port says this position as a leadership chair on the Executive Committee will give him an opportunity to use his experience as an end-user to help IIAR align itself with the evolving industry. P

ort will serve a Treasurer during his first year on the Executive Committee. He joins Peter Jordan, Chairman; Adolfo Blasquez, Chair Elect; Joe Mandato, Vice Chair; and Don Stroud, Immediate Past Chair.

Bruce Nelson, Tom Dosch and Doug Scott Win 2010 Andy Ammonia Award of Excellence

The Andy Ammonia Award was created in 1996 to recognize excellence in the IIAR annual meeting program. It is given annually to the two highest-ranking presentations at the IIAR Industrial Refrigeration Conference & Exhibition. The presentations are ranked by the scores they receive on evaluation forms submitted by session attendees.

This year’s “Andy” was presented at the 2010 IIAR Ammonia Refrigeration Conference & Exhibition in San Diego, California to Tom Dosch, C&L Refrigeration and Doug Scott, VaCom Technologies, for their joint technical presentation, Ammonia Refrigeration Design for LEED Certification, and to Bruce Nelson, President, Colmac Coil Manufacturing, Inc., for his presentation, Thermodynamic Effects of Water in Ammonia on Evaporator Performance.

In their presentation, Dosch and Scott tackled the very timely question of how a refrigerated warehouse with an efficient refrigeration design using ammonia can achieve LEED® certification, while Bruce Nelson’s presentation explored how ammonia evaporators can be operated at reduced liquid overfeed rates. Nelson also reviewed and recommended methods for managing and removal of water from these systems.

The first Andy Ammonia Award was presented in 1996. Previous winners include:

2009 Don Faust and Andy Pearson
2008 Bent Wiencke
2007 Rowe Bansch, Heinz Jackmann and Marcus Wilcox
2006 Kem Russell and Andy Pearson
2005 Andy Pearson and Don Faust
2004 Bruce Paulson and Niels Vestergaard
2003 Jeff Welch and Thomas Lund/Per Nielsen
2002 Tom Heisler and Bruce Paulson/Adrian Page
2001 Rex Brown and Mark Dolson
2000 Andy Pearson and Thomas Rajewski
1999 Jeff Welch and Marcus Wilcox
1998 Ron Cole and Joe Pillis
1997 Ted Martin and Robert Miksch
1996 Milt Garland and Douglas Villem