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CONTENTS NOVEMBER 2011 volume 59, no. 11 REACHING OEM DESIGN ENGINEERS ACROSS CONSUMER AND COMMERCIAL MARKETS WORLDWIDE
DEPARTMENTS 4 Editorial: If It Plugs In, It Goes In 6 Shipments/Forecasts 8 News Watch 29 New Products
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FEATURES METALS 12 Introducing three methods for testing the suitability of monolithic refractories for use in melt-hold furnaces. Before you work with aluminum, learn how the pros work with aluminum, specifically how they decide which furnace linings to use.
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18 The EPA’s ENERGY STAR program is intent on making Smart Grid a standard part of its ENERGY STAR standards, and suggests how appliance manufacturers can use this to capitalize on smart grid-enabled products.
Smart Grid Survey Sponsored by DNA, our October survey wants your thoughts on the future of smart energy appliances. Take it at http://svy.mk/pb1MDx
Electronic Refrigerator Controller Saves Energy and Reduces Costs Until recently, manufacturers of GDMs, and commercial refrigerators and freezers had two options when selecting a controller: a mechanical thermostat that offered no intelligence or an electronic controller with limited capabilities. Fueling Product Innovation Using life-cycle thinking can help facilitate innovations, rather than limit them.
BLOGS Paul’s European Perspective After three days of IFA, Berlin’s massive consumer electronics and white goods fair, AD’s European correspondent Paul Roggema is ready to (get off his feet and…) declare Samsung the clear victor.
22 With thermal efficiencies in the mid-90s, condensing tankless water heaters use a secondary heat exchanger to lower combustion-gas temperatures in the flue, allowing the use of PVC piping, instead of stainless steel, to build vent runs.
DISPLAYS & INTERFACES 26 Whatever happened to high def displays that flex, screens that talk, and kitchens controlled by mobile phones? AD’s editor goes back to the future to catch up with three display technologies from the early aughts that were supposed to change the way we interface with appliances.
AD TV Corning Gorilla Glass Visually stunning, lightweight, and highly damage-resistant, this gorilla is out to protect the world’s coolest smartphones, tablets, PCs and TVs from everyday wear.
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COVER Technologies like this flexible LCD screen from AD’s January 2003 article “Displays & Indicators: Flex Time” were supposed to have taken over the market by now. Why they haven’t reveals more about the appliance industry than the techs. www.applianceDESIGN.com
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If It Plugs In, It Goes In
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eaders of our monthly e-newsletter might have noticed already that the look of the thing has changed since the summer. They’ll notice even more this month when, about the time you’re reading this issue, appliance DESIGN’s e-newsletter changes its name from the tautological “appliance DESIGN’s e-newsletter” to the snappier “Plugged In.” We also considered changing the name of the magazine, but when AD polled the readers on that you answered back with a resounding “No!” Why all the toponymy? We’re afraid
people will see the word “appliance” and think all you do is white goods. Granted that’s an important part of our industry, but the original equipment engineers that read our magazine are from a niche that includes both consumer and commercial products. Whether it’s a coffee pot or an air conditioner, our readers are involved with products being designed that plug in and are not limited to those appliances in your kitchen or laundry room. We cover almost anything short of military, aerospace, utilities, automotive and agricultural equipment, just so long as it has a motor or other power source like a battery or electrical plug. Before September 2004, the magazine’s name was Appliance Manufacturer. That name stood for 55 years, and changed with the complexity of the equipment. “Design” is the key. Whether you’re creating a device for medical, HVAC, majors, water processing, housewares/white goods, commercial appliances, vending, lab, testing, measurement, lawn & garden, electronics, computers, communications or business equipment, knowing the available technologies, the going expectations of your consumers, and the needs of your niches are the paramount considerations from vision to manufacture of your end product. That’s design. So now it’s official: the name stays like before, and everyone will just have to remember ‘if it plugs in, it goes in.’
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AUTOMATIC WASHERS – Shipments (Thousands of Units) Qtr: 1 2 3 4
2010 2040.7 2023.4 1902.5 2038.6
2011 2024.0 1861.7 1896.8 2046.8
2012 2042.2 1923.1 1955.6 2147.0
For 2011, a 2.2% decline to 7.829 million units For 2012, a 3.0% increase to 8.068 million units Data Source: AHAM Forecast Source: Delano Data Insights
DRYERS – Shipments (Thousands of Units) Qtr: 1 2 3 4
2010 1702.0 1659.5 1468.5 1720.8
2011 1609.7 1519.9 1403.9 1695.0
2012 1614.5 1564.0 1453.0 1759.4
For 2011, a 4.9% decline to 6.228 million units For 2012, a 2.6% increase to 6.391 million units Data Source: AHAM Forecast Source: Delano Data Insights
FREEZERS – Shipments (Thousands of Units) Qtr: 1 2 3 4
2010 434.2 516.0 526.9 480.4
2011 437.5 509.3 528.5 491.0
2012 448.0 524.6 547.5 514.0
For 2011, a 0.4% increase to 1.966 million units For 2012, a 3.5% increase to 2.034 million units Data Source: AHAM Forecast Source: Delano Data Insights
GAS RANGES and OVENS – Shipments (Thousands of Units) Qtr: 1 2 3 4
2010 656.2 694.4 673.1 766.1
2011 659.1 602.9 633.4 746.9
2012 669.0 631.2 658.7 773.8
For 2011, a 5.3% decline to 2.642 million units For 2012, a 3.4% increase to 2.733 million units Data Source: AHAM Forecast Source: Delano Data Insights
GAS FURNACES – Shipments (Thousands of Units) Qtr: 1 2 3 4
2010 506.9 552.6 646.6 747.2
2011 506.0 475.7 615.6 733.7
2012 516.6 488.5 642.7 761.6
For 2011, a 5.0% decline to 2.331 million units For 2012, a 3.4% increase to 2.409 million units Data Source: AHRI Forecast Source: Delano Data Insights
DEHUMIDIFIERS – Shipments (Thousands of Units) Qtr: 1 2 3 4
2010 551.2 668.4 250.6 82.0
2011 349.8 553.3 279.9 97.4
2012 371.1 593.1 289.2 102.0
For 2011, a 17.5% decline to 1.280 million units For 2012, a 5.9% increase to 1.355 million units Data Source: AHAM Forecast Source: Delano Data Insights Note: All forecasts begin in Q3/2011
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Group Forms to Promote PLC as Smart Grid Standard welve major players in the smart grid industry in October announced they will form a new global partnership to promote the new power line communications protocol G3-PLC as the standard for smart grid. Singees include Cisco, Enexis, ERDF, Maxim Integrated Products, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments, Itron, Landis & Gyr, Nexans, Sagemcom, EDF R&D and Trialog. Power Line Communications (PLC) technology transmits digital information through electrical power lines using OFDM (orthogonal frequency division multiplexing). It would create a smart grid architecture that can work through the power grid itself, as opposed to getting on the Internet. PLC has been adopted as the basis for several major standards such as IEEE, ITU and IEC/CENELEC, which offer interoperability with the current G3-PLC specification available. G3-PLC products are currently available from major semiconductor and equipment manufacturers and it is being field tested by several major utilities and organizations worldwide, including ERDF in France. The alliance hopes to make G3-PLC as much a standard as Bluetooth or WiFi. The alliance’s listed goals are: Promote G3-PLC in Internationally recognized standards organizations (IEEE, ITU, IEC, ISO, etc.) Promote G3-PLC technical features, performance, and overall value Organize certification tests and programs
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Organize and operate the industry users group to maintain the G3-PLC specification and to insure\ interoperability Support utilities in the deployment of the new G3-PLC communications protocol in their respective countries Promote G3-PLC in other applications such as home/building energy management; home automation; vehicle-to-grid and vehicle-to-charging station communications; lighting control and management; factory automation, and optimization of smart grid performance The G3-PLC is designed to operate in 10-490 kHz frequency bands and it is compliant with CENELEC, FCC and ARIB regulatory bodies. The alliance was formed to support G3PLC’s rapid adoption by utilities worldwide in various smart grid applications such as automatic meter management, EV charging, home energy management, lighting control and grid monitoring. Meanwhile the IPSO Alliance (www.ipso-alliance.org) held its fall meeting in Santa Clara, Calif., last month to discuss their advocacy for a complimentary technology, internet protocol (IP), or as they titled the October press reception, “enabling the Internet of things.” Their solution would be to connect devices such as 150 million electric meters through IPv6, which is where the Internet is heading once all of the current IPv4 addresses are used up. In May, appliance DESIGN published IPSO’s white paper “The Smart Grid is Coming” that dug into how that will work.
thermal guideline for liquid cooled data processing environments. Download it from their TC9.9 website at www.tc99. ashraetcs.org. The white paper, 2011 Thermal Guidelines for Liquid Cooled Data Processing Environments, creates data center classes for liquid cooling that can enable fulltime economizers for a number of applications in many climates, according to according to Don Beaty, chair of the subcommittee who created the paper. The increasing heat density of modern electronics is stretching the ability of air to adequately cool the electronic components within servers as well as the data
center facilities that house these servers. To meet this challenge, the use of direct water or refrigerant cooling at the rack or board level is now being deployed. This trend of increasing heat densities combined with the interest in energy and waste heat recovery created the need for liquid cooling guidelines to help bridge the gap between IT equipment design and data center facility design, according to Beaty. Five liquid cooling classes have been created: W1 – Facility Water Supply Temperature of 2ºC to 17ºC W2 – Facility Water Supply Temperature of 2ºC to 27ºC www.applianceDESIGN.com
NEWS WATCH W3 – Facility Water Supply Temperature of 2ºC to 32ºC W4 – Facility Water Supply Temperature of 2ºC to 45ºC W5 – Facility Water Supply Temperature of > 45ºC The white paper includes insight into other considerations for liquid cooling including condensation, operation, water flow rates, pressure, velocity and quality as well as information on interface connections and infrastructure heat rejection devices.
SUMMER FINISHES STRONG FOR MANUFACTURING
Technology orders continued their ascent back to pre-recession levels, totaling
$460.61 million in August according to data provided by the Association for Manufacturing Technology (AMT) and the American Machine Tool Distributors’ Association. While not as high as the July bump, the August numbers were up 88.5% from this month last year. At over $3.4 billion yearto-date, 2011 in manufacturing is up 101 percent over 2010. “Despite news reports that wider economic growth may be stagnating, the manufacturing technology industry is sustaining its momentum,” said Douglas Woods, AMT President. “With orders still up substantially over last year, there is clearly optimism within the industry as firms are seeing future growth opportunities that merit new capital investment.”
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MEETINGS November 2011 AHRI ANNUAL MEETING Nov 13-15 / Bonita Springs, Fla. Website: www.ahrinet.org
December BIOMEDEVICE, AN MD&M EVENT Dec 6-7 / San Jose, Calif. Hosted by UBM Canon Website: www.biomedeviceshow.com MD&M ONLINE Dec 13-14 / Online Event Hosted by UBM Canon Website: www.mdmonlineevent.com
January AHR EXPO Jan 23-25 Website: www.ahrexpo.com
February PACIFIC DESIGN & MANUFACTURING, & MD&M WEST Feb 14-16, 2012 / Anaheim, Calif.
Northeast: $64.32 M 9.5% vs. July 64.4% vs. Aug. 2010 64.0% YTD
Central: $140.07 M 30.5% vs. July 115.5% vs. Aug. 2010 105.6% YTD
INTERNATIONAL HARDWARE FAIR Mar 4-7, 2012 / Cologne, Germany Website: www.eisenwarenmesse.com
Southern: $58.18 M 23.0% vs. July 90.1% vs. Aug. 2010 81.1% YTD
Western: $53.35 M 50.2% vs. July 90.1% vs. Aug. 2010 100.6% YTD
DESIGN & MANUFACTURING TEXAS / MD&M TEXAS / QUALITY EXPO SOUTH Mar 14-15, 2012 / Fort Worth, Texas Hosted by UBM Canon Website: www.dm-texas.com
Midwest: $144.68 M 9.3% vs. July 77.4% vs. Aug. 2010 128.9% YTD
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The data are based on the totals of actual data reported by companies participating in the USMTO program. The United States Manufacturing Technology Orders (USMTO) report, jointly compiled by the two trade associations representing the production and distribution of manufacturing technology, provides regional and national U.S. orders data of domestic and imported machine tools and related equipment. The regions broke down as follows:
Other economic indicators back up the tale of recovery. The International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) forecasts 2011 holiday sales in the Electronics and Appliance store sector in the United States will be up 4 percent over last year, reaching an estimated $23.6 billion. This would be the second year in a row of sector growth after two in the negative, though 2011 is not expected to reach 2010’s 5 percent gain.
AHRI: WE AGREE, DOE, SO LET IT BE
AHRI has sent a letter to the Department of Energy confirming the association’s support for a consensus agreement on DOE’s efficiency standards for residential central air conditioners, heat pumps and furnaces. AHRI president and CEO Stephen Yurek sent a letter to Secretary Steven Chu affirming AHRI support for the agreement reached with efficiency adapplianceDESIGN November 2011 9
NEWS WATCH vocates but asking DOE to hurry up and get final rule finalized so industry would have enough time to comply. The comment period for the rule ended Oct. 17, 2011. The letter urged DOE to adopt its final rule as soon as the comment period ends. Several energy efficiency advocacy groups, DOE and AHRI put forth in 2009 a joint recommendation which has since been making its way through the bureaucratic process. DOE announced in July its direct final rule concerning these devices but that rule must go through a comment period. When that rule was announced in June, AHRI vice president for public affairs Francis Dietz said the association agreed with the ruling except for reservations about stand-by power limits. Despite those reservations, AHRI apparently believes the best thing for its constituents now is to be done with the rule process and start letting manufacturers work toward compliance.
COMPANY NEWS SUNSHOT INITIATIVE UNDERWAY THANKS TO GRANTS
J. P. Sercel Associates (JPSA), Manchester, N.H., MIT and the SunShot Initiative FPACE awardee University of Delaware, have begun a massive research project to lower the cost of crystalline silicon solar cells. The project hopes to make high-yield solar cells a viable energy source under the Department of Energy’s SunShot Initiative program, with a goal of lowering the cost of crystalline silicon solar cells to $0.50/Wp module cost. The University of Delaware received a record $9.1 million from five separate awards under the initiative. The team will use a new device design patented by UD that incorporates silicon structures deposited at low temperature. This project will utilize JPSA’s expertise in UV-VIS-NIR nanosecond and picosecond lasers to pattern and form the contacts on the back of the solar cell, and MIT’s unique characterization and passivation tools for understanding and mitigating defects in silicon. Four U.S companies will provide thin silicon wafers for evaluation of the new solar cell design architecture.
A.O. SMITH INTRODUCES NEW COO
Photo supplied by GE GE’S APPLIANCE PARK JOINS LEED ELITE
A new data center at GE’s Appliance Park headquarters in Louisville, Ky., has reached the pinnacle of green building, earning a LEED Platinum award for energy efficiency and environmentally conscious design. The appliances and lightning division’s building is a retrofit of an unused manufacturing facility. Platinum is the highest-level award of the US Green Building Council’s rating system for environmentally friendly building called LEED, or Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design. Energy efficiency was the key. GE’s Industrial Solutions subsidiary provided its Entellysis lowvoltage switchgear and power-quality systems for the data center. The UPS system from GE’s Digital Energy business and its eBoost technology help cut down on the amount of power the servers eat up.
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A. O. Smith, Milwaukee, announced that Ajita G. Rajendra has been named president and chief operating officer, effective Sept 1. Rajendra will be responsible for the company’s water heater operations in North America, China, Europe, and India as well as the company’s water purification business in China. The $1.5 billion business has 17 manufacturing plants around the world and employs approximately 10,000 people. Rajendra also will be responsible for the Lochinvar global boiler business, once the acquisition of that company is complete. Rajendra joined A. O. Smith as president of its Water Products Company in January 2005. He was named an executive vice president of the corporation in 2006. He was previously senior vice president of Kennametal Inc., of Latrobe, Pa., a manufacturer of industrial cutting tools.
MOUSER SECURES HONEYWELL DISTRIBUTION
Mouser Electronics Inc., a design engineering firm and global distributor for semiconductors and electronic components, announced it has signed a new global contract with Honeywell Sensing and Control. The global agreement builds upon the two companies’ current distribution partnership, which has been in place since 2007. “Mouser is an important partner for us as they have years of experience in the distribution of electronic components in support of new design,” said Sean Conley, Honeywell Sensing and Control Director of Global Distribution Sales. “They actively increased Honeywell’s presence throughout the Americas in their catalog and on their website.” Mouser Electronics, a subsidiary of TTI Inc., is part of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway family of companies. The company ships globally to over 300,000 customers in 170 countries from its 492,000 sq. ft. facility south of Dallas. Visit www.mouser.com
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VRF STANDARD FROM AHRI
According to an association press release, the Air-Conditioning, Heating, and Refrigeration Institute (AHRI) on Sept. 20 launched a new certification program for Variable Refrigerant Flow MultiSplit Air-Conditioners and Heat Pumps (VRFs). The equipment in the VRF program are rated and tested in accordance with AHRI Standard 1230. Systems sized under 65MBH are currently certified to AHRI Standard 210/240. The certification program covers matched variable refrigerant flow multisplit air-conditioner and multi-split heat pump systems that comply with either the National Appliance Energy Conservation Act (NAECA) or the Energy Policy Act (EPACT), and use distributed refrigerant technology with cooling and heating capacities for outdoor units from 12,000 Btu/h [3508 W] to 300,000 Btu/h [87,692 W] and indoor units from 5,000 Btu/h [1,462 W] to 60,000 Btu/h [17,538 W]. Each indoor unit is designed to condition a single zone. The program applies to variable refrigerant flow multi-split systems consisting of the following matched components: a) an outdoor unit with single or multiple compressors or variable capacity compressor or with a variable speed drive; b) indoor unit(s) that have a coil, air movement device intended for single zone air distribution, and a temperature sensing control; and c) a zone temperature control device. It covers VRF multi-split systems and heat recovery VRF multisplit systems covered in AHRI Standard 1230. Included are multi-split, matched system air-conditioners and heat pumps irrespective of their type of electric power source, or secondary fluid (e.g. air-to-air or water-to-air). There are currently five participants in the program: Carrier, Daikin, LG Elecwww.applianceDESIGN.com
tronics, Mitsubishi, and Sanyo. Testing will be conducted at Intertek’s testing facility in Plano, Tex. Performance data for certified products can be found in the AHRI Directory of Certified Product Performance (www.ahridirectory.org). “As VRFs are gaining popularity in the United States, launching this new certification program is timely,” said Bill Tritsis, AHRI Vice President, Certification. “Hav-
ing a VRF program will provide the assurance that manufacturers’ performance ratings for the equipment have been independently verified, which will likely increase awareness of these products within the United States.” Manufacturers interested in joining the VRF certification program may contact AHRI Certification Engineer Jon Lemmond.
Mighty performance. Mini envelope.
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