Chad Bowers
Director of Technology at Daikin Applied Americas
About
At Daikin Applied Americas, Chad Bowers oversees bringing emerging technologies into applied HVAC offerings. Bowers has over 15 years of HVAC&R experience and earned master's and doctoral degrees through the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Center. Bowers works on incorporating advances in compressors, refrigerants, and heat exchangers into deployable systems.
Upcoming events (1)
NOV
17
TUE
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NOV
18
WED
Hosted by Oak Ridge National Laboratory for the Department of Energy’s Thermal Energy Recovery & Management Center of Excellence, the workshop focuses on testing, validation, integration, and deployment of high-temperature heat pumps across technology readiness levels. Plenary topics include the U.S. industrial heat-pump landscape, market pathways, technology readiness, economics, deployment pathways, technology advances, R&D priorities, demonstrations, and deployment lessons. Breakout discussions cover OEM roadmaps and product readiness; working fluids, compressors, component supply chains, advanced heat exchangers, and system integration; end-user needs, controls, thermal storage, and grid flexibility; and standards, codes, testing, certification, financing, commercialization, and public-private partnerships. Report-outs and a facilitated discussion address priority needs, gaps, and recommended actions, followed by workshop synthesis on cross-cutting R&D, demonstration, deployment, and partnership priorities.
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