Oklahoma State University Faculty and Staff
James Bose, Ph.D., P.E.
International Ground Source Heat Pump Association
Jim
Bose is the Director of the Division of Engineering Technology at Oklahoma
State University. Bose has research interests in energy conservation and
specifically ground-source heat pump technology. He has been principal
investigator on a number of private and government contracts, including
the Electric Power Research Institute, the National Rural Electric Cooperative
Association, the American Society of Heating Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning
Engineers, the Department of Energy, the Oklahoma Department of Commerce
and others. He has traveled in conjunction with the International Energy
Agency (IEA) to China, Sweden, and Austria in promoting ground source
heat pump technology. He authored several design and installation manuals
for ground-source heat pump systems. He is active in the International
Ground Source Heat Pump Association and serves as the Executive Director.
He works extensively with research agencies, manufacturers and contractors,
and lectures extensively on energy conservation and the benefits of ground
source heat pump systems.
Gerald R. McClain
International Ground Source Heat Pump Association
Gerald R. McClain has joined the International Ground Source Heat Pump Association as Distance Learning Coordinator. McClain is establishing the use of digital web-based video conferencing to add online training capability for IGSHPA’s training efforts. He has organized and designed an effective training website for installer trainers and is currently assisting IGSHPA’s Training Program Manager.
McClain, an Emeritus Professor, retired from Oklahoma State University as the Head of Mechanical Design and Manufacturing Engineering Technology, Division of Engineering, Architecture and Technology, in Stillwater, Oklahoma.
As Vice President of eLearning Innovations, Inc., from 1995 to 2006, McClain developed computer and web-based instruction and designed two-way video studios for instructional use. McClain has held classes all over the United States and in a number of foreign countries to train both faculty and staff for a number of companies and organizations.
Gerald R. McClain
International Ground Source Heat Pump Association
Roshan Revankar, M.S., B.E.S.A. serves as the Training Program Manager at the International Ground Source Heat Pump Association (IGSHPA). Revankar manages, certifies and markets international program delivery for existing association training programs, and extensively promotes energy conservation and benefits of GSHP both in national and international levels. He is active in developing, approving and distributing new training programs in compliance with industry standards as well. He trains industry individuals with standards and best practices of geothermal installations.
Oklahoma State University graduate, Revankar, has research interests in ground-source heat pump technology deployment and has worked on contracts with Department of Energy to increase the job market in the geothermal industry. He is a certified Building Energy Simulation Analyst and has assisted in designing energy efficient geothermal systems.
IGSHPA Accredited Trainers
Chris Balbach, P.E., C.E.M., C.M.V.P., B.E.M.P., LEED-AP
Chris Balbach brings to this seminar extensive expertise in building simulation and energy modeling, with a focus on existing buildings. As Vice President of Research and Development for Performance Systems Development of NY, LLC, he acts as a subject matter expert to guide the company's internal software development teams. As a subcontractor to the National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL), Mr. Balbach has delivered weeklong comprehensive Energy Assessment trainings (including sections on energy modeling) to governmental clients worldwide. He has a passionate belief that energy simulation tools, when properly wielded, often represent the best available technology for accurately estimating the potential for energy savings in buildings. He combines his field experience as an HVAC/R design engineer, background in simulation software development, and understanding of monetizing energy savings through appropriate M&V techniques to present a vision for transforming energy use in buildings. Mr. Balbach is member of IBPSA, AEE, and ASHRAE, and serves as programs committee chair of ASHRAE TC4.7 (Energy Calculations).
Ed Lohrenz has worked in all facets of the geothermal heat pump industry since 1982, including residential system installation, manufacturing, equipment distribution and commercial system design. Ed is a partner in Geo-Xergy Systems Inc., an engineering consulting firm focused on the design and implementation of commercial geothermal systems. Projects completed by the firm include the first North American IKEA Store (Denver, CO) to install a geothermal system, a 1.5 million square foot district geothermal system (Winnipeg, MB) and a 750 home and commercial district geothermal system (Gibsons, BC). He has pioneered the integration of ice rinks and ice storage systems in geothermal applications, and has been involved in the design and implementation of over 50 geothermal ice rink applications, and has been involved in geothermal system designs in Asia and Europe.
Ed has been an IGSHPA Certified Instructor for the IGSHPA Installer Training course since 2001, and the CGD Plus workshops since 2010. He has taught commercial design courses with both the South Korean and Chinese IGSHPA Chapters as well as online. Ed is a member of AEE and ASHRAE, and serves as a voting member of ASHRAE TC 6.8 (heat pumps) and TC 6.9 (energy storage).
Dr. Remund has over 20 years of experience installing and designing geothermal systems. He has been a certified instructor for IGHSPA since 1994. He was a professor in the Mechanical Engineering department at South Dakota State University from 1988-2009, where he taught thermodynamics, heat transfer, fluid dynamics, design of thermal systems and applied laboratory courses. He is a co-author of the IGSHPA geothermal installer training manual titled "Design and Installation of Residential and Light Commercial GSHP Systems". Dr. Remund has been principle investigator on many research projects associated with ground source heat pumps, specifically addressing heat transfer characteristics of grouting materials, soil and rock. He worked with regional electric utilities and the Geothermal Heat Pump Consortium through the Northern Geothermal Support Center at SDSU, through which hundreds have been trained in various aspects of ground source heat pump design and installation.
Terry Proffer, CGD
Design Principal, Major Geothermal
Involved in the GSHP industry since 1993, Proffer spent over 15 years as a petroleum geologist prior to a second career in the mechanical professions. Proffer has designed, consulted or installed on thousands of tons of heat pump capacity throughout the U.S, Canada, Europe and Asia, trained over 700 contractors and engineers through IGSHPA and other training resources, and consulted with Colorado’s Division of Water Resources to implement improved regulations for closed and open loop installations and licensing. In the past 5 years Proffer has designed and/or peer reviewed more than 15,000 tons of commercial and military GSHP installations, not counting residential and confidential commercial projects.
Since 2006, Proffer has provided technical advice and beta testing to Gaia Geothermal for their state-of-the-art commercial GLD closed loop design software. Proffer also serves as an advisor to the IGSHPA CGD training committee, and is currently serving on the steering committee of the Geothermal Academy at Colorado School of Mines with support from U.S. Department of Energy and NREL. In addition Terry serves the Geothermal Academy as a technical advisor and guest lecturer. Proffer also provides input to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) for their Geothermal Heat Pump road mapping project to define installation challenges and increase the use of GSHP technology.
Greg Wells
Jackson & Sons Drilling/Geothermal
Greg Wells is a geothermal sales engineer for Jackson & Sons Drilling/Jackson
Geothermal in Mansfield, Ohio. He is responsible for commercial sales,
commercial field design and installation quality control. Jackson Geothermal
has installed thousands of tons of vertical geothermal heat exchanger
systems from coast to coast.
Wells has 20 years of experience in the geothermal industry as an electric utility representative, a territory manager for a geothermal heating and cooling manufacturer, a general manager of a large geothermal installation company, prior to being employed at Jackson Geothermal. Wells is currently serving on IGSHPA’s Advisory Council, is an IGSHPA accredited installer and trainer and an IGSHPA/AEE Certified GeoExchange Designer.
Wells is the developer of the Accredtied Drillers Training for IGSHPA.