28 October 2010
With this motto in mind, every year two experienced Frese professionals, a salesman and a consultant, stand face to face with the students who will go on to become tomorrow's building janitors and plumbing, heating and sanitation technicians and engineers.
For more than 20 years Frese dynamic valves have challenged the outdated thinking in the construction industry that persists in believing in static valves. Despite the well-documented proof that cooling and heating systems fitted with dynamic valves significantly consume less energy, and despite the simple commissioning of these systems, there are old-timers in the business who still cling to static valves. Dynamic valve technology was foreign to them when they were students so many years ago.
"There's been a great deal of development in regulating valves in the last few years. And we want to share that knowledge. We plant ideas among the students when we visit the lecture halls and teach dynamic regulation. We're well aware that we are not advertising Frese products, but rather training students, teaching them the principles of dynamic regulation," says OEM Sales Manager Aage Back Pedersen, who every year is a guest lecturer at both the Engineering College of Aarhus and Aalborg University. He adds that the Danish Technological Institute also uses Frese products in its teaching.
With Sales Engineer Ove Haugen, Aage Back Pedersen is a two-man teaching team, demonstrating dynamic regulation to tomorrow's building janitors, technicians, plumbing, heating and sanitation technicians and engineers. Ove Haugen teaches primarily at technical colleges and adult vocational training colleges (AMU centres). He teaches for around twenty days a year and introduces students to cooling and heating systems regulation, pumps, heat exchangers, bringing them to an understanding of these systems and, not least, dynamic regulation.
"We give students a basic introduction in how to fully-utilise the energy available in a system using dynamic regulation. When you fit dynamic valves, your system automatically balances. The flow of water through the valves never exceeds the setting. No matter the load. We provide the basic understanding of how a system functions. We call a spade a spade, so participants clearly understand how dynamic valves and pumps work together and deliver the optimum utilisation of energy," says Ove Haugen.
"Luckily, we can see that our efforts are paying off. Among young plumbing, heating and sanitation engineers, we're seeing a completely different understanding of dynamic valves. Their understanding will have an impact on the industry in coming years because the pressure to deliver energy savings in cooling and heating systems will increase. In that context, Frese dynamic valves are the ideal solution," Aage Back Pedersen and Ove Haugen explain.
