If you keep adding exhaust fans to your manufacturing facility, you might start wondering why the doors won’t open anymore. Or maybe you have a long-standing problem with more exhaust than typical building HVAC can handle.
This is where Gunn & Pegelow can help! Continue reading
Have you ever taken an air shower? Every day the Subaru Team in the painting department of Subaru Assembly in Lafayette, IN do just that prior to entering the painting area. They enter the painting area by walking down a hall that has five Mars Air Doors suspended above them showering them with air to prevent contaminants from entering the painting area. The high expectations for only first quality paint finishes on the Subaru automobiles requires exceptional cleanliness in all the areas where the units are receiving coatings.
In order to meet the levels of cleanliness required for their quality control, the workers suit up in clean uniforms including head covers, shoe covers and even beard covers to prevent dust and hair from becoming airborne and ruining the finish on their automobiles as they pass through the painting area.
Not only are they required to don these uniforms they also must take an “air shower” to assure they have not picked up any foreign objects on their uniforms as they put them on. This air shower occurs automatically as the worker walks down a specially constructed hallway entry to go into the painting area. The air shower is activated upon opening the first entry door and remains on as a worker traverses the length of the approximately 20’ long hallway. Using two 48” air doors, one at each entry and three 60” air doors in the center exposes each worker entering the area to five separate sweeps of air as the person passes through the hall.
Working with the Gunn & Pegelow Applications team, Brad Mullen of J. R. Kelly Co. developed and installed this shower room in coordination with the quality control and engineering departments of Subaru.
Mars Air Doors are increasingly being utilized in unique applications for clean areas, environmental isolation, heat loss control and insect control. If your concerns include entryway environment control call us and let us discuss how a Mars Air Door may provide the low cost solution for your project.
Direct Fired Heat Recovery Ventilation Unit
If you are looking for a custom air handler to meet your specific needs, look to Titan Air for assistance. Gaining its roots from direct fired paint booth and paint bake applications, Titan Air has grown into an example of how nimble and capable a custom HVAC manufacturer can be. Click through the break to read on and see some pictures of how Titan Air was able to offer some solutions for Amtrak’s facilities in Chicago! Continue reading
Consider this for a minute: do you think a heat pump will work through Chicago’s winters? Alright- maybe when you consider VRF technology, but not with standard ON/OFF compressors. What about using heat pumps for 100% outside air? The answer is yes, and Reznor is now offering a simple, competitive, and efficient solution for doing just that.
Reznor’s new model ZQYRA hybrid ventilator is designed for 100% outside air applications, with operating ranges from -10 degree winters that we design for locally in Chicago to 105 degree summers designed for in the deep south.
It takes a handful of components: a digital scroll (variable capacity) compressor, supply and exhaust fans with EC motors, an energy recovery wheel, and some ingenious yet simple controls, and voila! You have a dedicated outside air system with EER’s as high as 22 and COP’s as high as 16!
Contact us and we will be happy to tell you more about it or help you lay it out on your next project, or you can visit Reznor’s catalog page to look into it yourself.
Suburban Manufacturing, the innovators of the compact gas heating PTAC, announces the new vertical upflow package unit for multi-family heating & cooling solutions. This new solution for ductable air distribution in a single point, through the wall package provides a convenient, low cost method for solving the comfort conditioning needs of most apartments and condos with 1 ton through 2.5 ton packages.
So whether your needs call for the compact zone solution of the Dynaline PTAC or the versatile package solution of the high efficiency gas heating Dynapack you can be confident that you are providing your customers with the very best comfort conditioning package in the marketplace today for multi-family residences.
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Air curtains are growing in popularity for use on commercial and industrial buildings. Why? Because it makes sense.
Look here at Mars Air Doors’ ROI calculator – this is how long it will take to pay for the product itself in energy savings; this is not a payback calculator showing the savings on this product versus another less efficient product.
If you’re a building designer and considering options to reduce building infiltration, air curtains are a valid one. Mars Air Doors has been in business since green buildings were simply known as efficient. Call Gunn & Pegelow to get more details on the product.
Next time you’re considering purchasing a commercial heating and ventilating unit, consider that you or your customer may be living with it for several years. If service is important to you, you’ll find that the products we represent are meant to last long term. Take a look at this Reznor unit as installed at a northern Chicago suburban school fieldhouse:
