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Weis Markets service team hosts HVAC students

Wednesday, May 1, 2019

Hostler explains the controls on a low-temperature parallel rack system.The students get an overview from Frisenda about the benefits of using adiabatic condensers in supermarket refrigeration. Reilly describes the store's multizone leak detector and its importance to grocery operations.Laylon illustrates how a glycol loop works on the medium-temperature rack. The Penn College HVAC technology program's historically strong partnership with Weis Markets continued last month, as students in the commercial refrigeration classes toured a Weis store with members of the chain's service team – including a number of graduates. The experience gave the students an opportunity to see operation of the heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration equipment they covered over the semester. Welcoming the students were Louis J. Frisenda and HVAC alumni Taylor P. Hostler (2010), Nicholas R. Laylon (2008), and John H. Lowe and Stephen J. Reilly (both 1989).
Photos by Stephen D. Manbeck, assistant professor of HVAC technology