Uk: Alexander Cohr Pachai has been awarded the J&E Hall Gold Medal for the most noteworthy contribution to the progression of refrigeration and connected systems.
The award to Pachai, which includes prize revenue of £5,000, was one particular of the awards produced in the course of Thursday night’s Institute of Refrigeration evening meal in London.
Right until a short while ago senior engineer and know-how supervisor for JCI, Pachai started out as a refrigeration technician apprentice in 1978. In the course of the ensuing 40+ many years he has labored to establish environmentally dependable remedies to many difficulties confronted by the refrigeration industry. These have integrated compressor advancement for ammonia, hydrocarbons, carbon dioxide and drinking water industrial devices, as properly as units for the style and design for new means to use these refrigerants. He was also concerned in the revenue of the first CO2 cascade devices equally in Denmark and New Zealand.
In addition to this is continuously shared his skills with the field by UNEP, the International Institute of Refrigeration Eurammon and the IoR. He is at this time the chair of the IIR Security Doing the job Group and his chapter direct author on industrial refrigeration for UNEP’s organic refrigeration technical possibilities reform.
Pachai joins a find listing of past recipients that has integrated refrigeration greats such as Prof Gustav Lorentzen, Prof Prga Hrnjak, Dr Mark McLinden, and Prof Eckhard Groll.
Lightfoot Medal
The Lightfoot Medal for the greatest IoR Speak and Paper of the 2021/22 session was created to Dr Dermot Cotter, MD of Star Technical Remedies, for his paper Carbon Dioxide Hazard Assessments and Protection Method Requirements.
The paper establishes a systematic framework to allow industrial refrigeration proprietors and operators to successfully and precisely assess and handle the risks affiliated with the use of CO2 in refrigeration devices. In addition to the medal, the award contains a hard cash prize of £500.
Lifetime Accomplishment Award
This year’s RACHP Engineering Life span Accomplishment Award, which recognises an individual’s dedication to a job in assistance, upkeep or set up engineering, went to Andrew Christie of J&E Hall Cardiff.
Christie, who commenced with J & E Hall as an apprentice and has been in the industry for more than 40 decades, was singled out for his ongoing dedication to his position as a refrigeration engineer, his client concentration and passing on skills to more youthful engineers.
He receives a trophy and a income prize of £400.
Ted Perry Award
The Ted Perry Award for Pupil Study this calendar year went to Henrique Lagoeiro learning at London South Bank University for his PhD research on decarbonising heating and cooling. He gained the award for his get the job done on investigating the likely advantages of integrating heating and cooling making use of squander warmth from the London Underground.
Variety
Addressing users and guests at the dinner, IoR president, Graeme Fox targeted on the Institute’s earlier, present-day and potential get the job done to promote inclusion and variety in the RACHP sector, whilst addressing its skill lack difficulties.
He made use of the situation to announce the participation of the IoR in the to start with-at any time pan-market accumulating to tackle range and inclusivity with bigger-photo collective imagining. Organisations such as BESA, FETA, CIBSE, the Women’s Engineering Society, the Affiliation of Black and Ethnic Minority Engineers (ABFE-British isles), ASHRAE and the Black Industry experts In Construction Community will acquire section with the goal to deal with this issue which has been a long term trouble for the engineering sector.