Commercial and Industrial Services

Energy Penguin’s Gene Troy has over 20 years of experience helping commercial and industrial facilities reduce their energy use through sound engineering and manage their business risk through smart business practices. A Registered Professional Engineer, Certified Energy Manager, and Certified Building Analyst Professional, Mr. Troy has particular expertise in industrial and commercial refrigeration, especially regulatory and code compliance and alternatives to ozone-depleting refrigerants. Highlights include:

• Conducting energy efficiency studies, developing as-built documentation, designing piping and instrumentation diagrams for large ammonia air-conditioning and refrigerated process plants for dairies, breweries, supermarkets, and pharmaceutical manufacturers.
• Working with domestic and international industry stakeholders, including EPA, OSHA, and industrial codes and standards developers such as ASHRAE and ISO, to ensure the safe use of ammonia as a refrigerant.
• Improving industry designs and practices for ammonia refrigeration through development of standards, guidance documents for certification of technicians, and technical training courses to help technicians and engineers satisfy certification and continuing education requirements.
• Leading the development of a piping design training seminar and manual to help small facilities create and implement effective ammonia safety programs.
• Consulting on options for mitigating ozone-depleting refrigerants in pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities.
• Developing the technical approach for eliminating ozone-depleting refrigerants in large supermarket chains in Mexico and China, at Mars Corporation's 41 worldwide manufacturing facilities, and in refrigerator-manufacturing facilities in four countries.
• Leading efforts to eliminate use of ozone-depleting refrigerants in Giant Food’s 160 food and drug stores, including designing HVAC, refrigeration, plumbing, electrical, and control systems for new and retrofit construction projects; planning scopes of work; developing installation specifications; and inspecting completed construction.
• Providing technical consulting support to EPA in its collaboration with industry to develop sensible regulations to phase out, conserve, and reduce emissions of ozone-depleting refrigerants.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND SEMINARS

Troy, E.F., and P. Jordan (editors). Ammonia Refrigeration Management Program. International Institute of Ammonia Refrigeration (IIAR). Arlington, VA, October 1, 2004.

Troy, E.F., and L. Bonebrake, R. Burdick, R. Cole, W. Richards, D. Siller, “Ammonia Refrigeration Piping Seminar,” sponsored by IIAR, held in St. Louis, MO (2002), Atlanta, GA (2003), Long Beach, CA (2004), and Jacksonville, FL (2005).

Troy, E.F., “Technical Program for the IIAR Ammonia Refrigeration Conference & Exhibition” (technical program producer and director). IIAR. Arlington, VA, 2002-2007.

Troy, E.F., and M.K. Anderson (editors). Proceedings of the IIAR Ammonia Refrigeration Conference & Exhibition. IIAR. Arlington, VA, 2002-2007.

Troy, E.F., and C. Gage, Ph.D., “Reducing Refrigerant Emissions in Supermarket Systems,” ASHRAE Journal, Atlanta, GA, November 1998. Presented at the annual International Conference on Ozone Protection Technologies, Baltimore, MD, November 13, 1997.

Troy, E.F., “Maintenance Matters” and “Desiccant Dehumidification - Why, When, and How,” Store Equipment and Design, Chicago, IL, May 1996 and September 1996.

Troy, E.F., “Developing an Action Plan,” “Short-Term CFC Emission Reduction Measures,” “Long-Term CFC Phaseout Measures,” and “How to Select Equipment,” four seminars presented at the Workshop for Reducing CFC Consumption in Refrigeration, sponsored by the Mexican Institute for Public Protection, Monterrey, Mexico, April 19, 1993.

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