Pneumatic furnace damper drives may be more common, but electro-hydraulic actuators provide several advantages to the more traditional control scheme. One fossil-fired plant in Taiwan achieved more ...

Life safety dampers are an important part of fire and smoke protection in commercial buildings. Much like smoke detectors and fire sprinklers, they need to be periodically tested, per the ...

A decision to replace more than 300 aging damper actuators forced Entergy to make a choice between pneumatic and electric actuator designs. At Entergy’s Independence Plant in Newark, Ark., two ...

He has specialized in actuators and dampers for 25 years and is co-author of Dampers and Airflow Control, ASHRAE Special Publications. He is a member of the Society of Fire Protection Engineers (SFPE) ...