Blender Products Inc. is a Denver based manufacturer for components used in commercial HVAC equipment.听 Primarily Air Handling Units (or AHUs).听 We have an internship opportunity for a Junior or Senior level Mechanical Engineering or related education discipline (ie: building sciences related fields) for summer 2017.听 This is a specific project that is a collaboration between Blender Products Inc. and Mountain States Equipment.听
The project is a joint effort between Blender Products Inc. and Mountain States Equipment Inc..听 We will be testing and assessing the impacts of turbulent air flow on direct evaporative cooling media.听 Direct evaporative cooling and direct evaporative cooling media are becoming more prevalent as a heat exchange strategy in large data center applications like Facebook and Google.听 With advances in server reliability servers are much more capable of surviving in a wider temperature and humidity range.听 This allows for less costly cooling technologies to provide the necessary temperature and humidity protection and the servers themselves provide all the necessary heat to control the temperature in the data center.听 However, there are operational problems that can be experienced with these system utilizing air side economizing and direct evaporative cooling that Blender Products has the products and knowledge to address.听 The ultimate goal is to research if there are opportunities for MSE and Blender to co-develop a product focused on optimizing first cost/operating cost/and performance for data center climate applications.听
Test plans are currently under development, but this is expected to be an 8-10 week assignment.听 Starting mid-late May and continuing through July and possibly into first week of August. The intern would be conducting tests which would include working with others to prepare test apparatus, install and calibration of data acquisition equipment, operation of test apparatus, monitoring, recording, and reporting of data.听 The intern should come away with an understanding of AHU role in data center applications, the sizing, selection, and performance criteria associated with air side economizing and direct evaporative cooling (including applicable psychometrics, thermodynamics, and basic flow physics).听 These are good basic building blocks for any role in HVAC for building applications.
This will be a paid internship.听 We will offer $20/hr wage to the selected intern.听 Candidates must have legal permission to work in the United States.听 The intern will be responsible for their own transportation to and from our facility.听 Working hours are typically 8 to 4:30, but there is flexibility on times and work location based on task requirements and interns schedule.
Dave Dorste/Director of Engineering/BPI Inc.
(720) 257 7870/2
dave.dorste@airblender.com