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- Ed Neese
The holiday season and year-end are quickly approaching. If you are in the enviable position of budget remaining to make year-end capital equipment expenditures, a great way to spend it is an investment in ventilation equipment to create a cool and comfortable work environment for your employees. Win-Win Investment An investment in ventilation equipment is …
- Ed Neese
In Part 1, I provided some clarity to the definitions for pressure terminology. In the second part of this series, I’ll discuss how these pressure terms apply to selecting the right fan for an application. Fan Selection Pressure The selection of the right fan for an application is based on flow and pressure. First, we …
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- Ed Neese
When discussing air pressure related to ventilation systems, the basic terms “total”, “dynamic”, “velocity”, “static”, “drop”, and “loss” are often used. How these pressure terms are applied and the means for measuring them can be confusing. In part one of this two part series, I will provide some clarity to understanding pressure terminology. Static Pressure …
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- Ed Neese
With fall weather finally here, it can mean only one thing: it is time to start budgeting for 2021. Okay, maybe budgeting isn’t the first thing that you think about with the start of fall, but it is an important one. Now is the time to build a capital budget that includes all of the …
- Ed Neese
Customers often ask which ventilation system is right for my facility? When Eldridge designs an industrial ventilation system, we do it considering that it needs to accomplish the main goal to exhaust heated or contaminated air from the facility and supply fresh, clean, and ambient temperature outside air. There are four ways that a ventilation …
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- Ed Neese
In the midst of this world-wide pandemic, people are wanting to get back to normal indoor activities at home, work, school and play. To do that, we need to find better ways to reduce the transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 illness. We can wear masks and practice social distancing, but that only …
- Fred Mott
Positive displacement (PD) blowers are vitally important for many applications in industries such as chemical, dairy, bulk handling, oil & gas and pulp & paper. But their drawback is that they are notoriously noisy and will need some type of silencing equipment to dissipate the noise. To meet the OSHA noise safety standards and to …
- Ed Neese
Fan manufacturers rate the volumetric air flow of their products based on air at standard conditions. When Eldridge designs most ventilation systems, we do so using these standard air flows for the fans. However, there are applications where the air is not at standard conditions and we need to determine what is the volume of …
- Ed Neese
In the midst of the last wave of summer heat, it is hard to imagine that there will ever be a need to turn on a heater to stay warm. However, due to the lead time to order, manufacture and install heating equipment, if you are planning to add new heaters or replace your aging …