Industrial air conditioning is crucial for equipment maintenance and personal health. Sick building syndrome is caused by poor air quality and inadequate HVAC equipment. Modern units are ductless or split systems with remote components and individual thermostats. Capacity ranges from 24,000 to 1,800,000 BTU.
A mortal enemy of most electronic equipment and personal productivity is heat. Air conditioning is the mechanical replacement of heat with cooled air. In years past, most large commercial buildings and manufacturing plants are equipped with industrial air conditioning units in part to alleviate the problems associated with overheating of electronic equipment such as computers, electronic test instruments and precision electronic manufacturing equipment. The machinery used to produce critical equipment, which usually includes precise measurements and tolerances, requires constant cooling to function properly. In a commercial facility, personal comfort was often an adjunct to equipment maintenance; those who worked with or near equipment that needed to be kept cool were the accidental benefactors of industrial air conditioning.
However, there is much talk today about what is known as “sick building syndrome”. This term refers to office buildings, schools, manufacturing, production and test facilities where the air quality is such that workers, students, customers, customers and visitors to these facilities became ill simply because they stayed in those buildings for a certain period of time. These various illnesses were the result of breathing in and absorbing noxious vapors and contaminants given off by the materials used in the building’s construction, as well as inadequate heating, ventilation or air conditioning (HVAC) equipment. Therefore, industrial air conditioning is now critical to individual comfort and personal health, not to mention optimal worker and equipment productivity.
Almost all modern industrial air conditioning units are now ductless or split air conditioning systems or a combination of both. Cooling machinery, fans, compressors, condensers, cooling towers, air handling, recovery and condensate discharge components are located in a remote location outside the building or facilities , on the roof or on the ground of the structure. The actual discharge of the refrigerated air is accomplished by small and compact units located in various rooms, offices and spaces within the building. Often these room units are controlled separately via individual thermostats. That’s the beauty of ductless air conditioning. Ducted appliances, on the other hand, usually involve inefficient damping of the louvers to maintain the individual room temperature.
The size and capacity of industrial air conditioning systems obviously depend on the size and design of the system to be cooled. These air conditioning units commonly range from about two tons, or 24,000 British Thermal Units (BTU) to 150 tons to 150 tons (1,800,000 BTU). One BTU is the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one pound of water, Fahrenheit, by one degree. The reverse is, of course, true of cooling capabilities. The BTU is the most common method of measuring the capacity of HVAC equipment in the United States
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