PDM Analysis at The Herrick Conference 2024 at Purdue
PDM Analysis attended and sponsored the The Herrick Conference 2024 from July 15th to 18th at Purdue University.
Since 1972, Herrick Labs has hosted the premier international conferences on Compressor Engineering, Refrigeration, Air-Conditioning, and High Performance Buildings. More than 800 industry experts from 30 countries come to Purdue University to present cutting-edge research, exchange ideas, do some personal networking, and tour the amazing facilities of Herrick Labs.
The benefits of attending the Herrick Conference
The conference offers an excellent opportunity for practitioners and researchers in industry, government, consulting offices, laboratories and universities to reach an audience of 800 participants from over 30 countries. Purdue offers the ideal location for presenting compressor, refrigeration/AC and high performance building systems research results and state-of-the art technology. As such, it offers a platform to discuss the challenges and potential solutions on important issues of compressor technology, new refrigerants and refrigeration technology and efficiency, as well as energy-efficient building technologies.
Every year the conference invites keynote and plenary speakers addressing current, world-wide issues of interest facing society today. This year this included, to name a few:
Mr. John Sipple, Tech Lead and Staff Software Engineer of Google’s Core Enterprise Machine Learning Team,
Dr. Jason Woods who is the Senior Research Engineer, National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s Building Energy Science Group
Dr. Andy Pearson, Group Managing Director, Star Refrigeration
The week was full of panel discussions highlighting the latest breakthroughs in technology, alternative technologies in research and industry. What’s more, we were able to receive CEUs (continuing education units) where applicable.
There was also a sponsor expo where PDM Analysis was able to showcase the wonderful work we do, including our SCORG software. We had many visitors come and show interest in our industry-leading software for design, optimization and analysis of positive displacement machines.
Papers presented by City, University of London
The conference gave many of the researchers from City, University of London’s Centre for Compressor Technology the opportunity to present their research. Some of the papers presented by our amazing team include the following titles:
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Thermal Analysis of a Twin Screw Vacuum Pump using CFD Model, by Sham Rane, Ahmed Kovacevic, Khurram Akhtar, Christopher White
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Optimisation of Industrial Oil-Flooded Screw Compressors: A Comparative Analysis of Conventional and Soft Computing Approaches, by Abhishek Kumar, Ahmed Kovacevic, Sathiskumar Anusuya Ponnusami
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Shape Optimization of a Roots Blower Rotor Profile Using CFD Model with a Coupled Adjoint-sculpting Method, by Neeraj Bikramaditya, Sham Rane, Ahmed Kovacevic
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Geometric and Numerical Investigation of Twin-Screw Vacuum Pumps, by Yang Lu, Sham Rane, Ahmed Kovacevic
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We are looking forward to attending this conference again in the future. It has proven a great opportunity to learn and grow.