Topics: Dehumidification

Healthcare environments such as surgical suites require complex infrastructure to ensure a safe and hygienic atmosphere. Clean environment ventilation is critical as levels of carbon monoxide, bioaerosols, and chemical compounds tend to be much higher in this environment.  One of the key roles of ventilation in healthcare facilities is to manage humidity levels. Desiccant dehumidifiers …

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Excessive moisture inside buildings is common in high humidity areas. However, it can negatively impact your facility, personnel, and operations. That’s why it’s necessary to design a ventilation system tailored to your needs. If you operate in an area with high humidity levels, you need expert ventilation system design to reduce moisture and keep your …

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Condensation and ice build-up are common problems in cold storage facilities.  These problems are caused by too much moisture in the air.  If not properly addressed, they may result in worker safety hazards, damaged products, and lower equipment efficiencies.  In this week’s blog, I’ll go through the process that we have used to help our …

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When workers are in an environment that is safe, comfortable and productive and the company realizes a financial benefit for providing those working conditions, that is what we refer to as a successful environment.  If you are in need of a whole facility solution for comfort cooling, let Eldridge show you how investing in Cambridge Air Solutions’ IEC units can create a successful environment in your facility.

A good customer needed help solving dehumidification issues with two of their packaging and compounding pharmacies in Houston.  Both had unique requirements that made it a challenge to find the best solution for each application. Tight Humidity Specifications The primary function of our customer’s two pharmacies was to repackage and mix bulk medicines for use …

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In Part 2:  Reading a Psychrometric Chart, I demonstrated how to read a psychrometric chart by using any two air conditions to find other parameters.  In the third and final part of this Pschryo Series, we will be applying psychrometrics to solve a common problem with cold storage facilities. Humidity and Cold Storage Don’t Mix A …

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In Part 1:  Demistifying Psychrometrics, I provided the scientific definition and a little explanation for the terms used in psychrometrics.  In the second part of this series, we will use these terms and learn how to read a psychrometric chart.  Psychrometric Chart A psychrometric chart packs a tremendous amount of information in an odd looking …

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I hope you got the intentional misspelling of the first word in the title.  It’s a bad dad joke thing, but I get accused of that a lot.  The word psychrometrics sounds intimidating and it has an even more intimidating definition:  the field of engineering concerned with the physical and thermodynamic properties of gas-vapor mixtures.  …

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Recently, a major Oil Company customer returned to Eldridge to replace a failing explosion proof desiccant dehumidifier that we had designed and supplied over 20 years ago.  With our current desiccant dehumidifier manufacturing partner, Innovative Air Technologies (IAT), we provided a more robust and advanced unit while meeting the explosion proof requirements and customer specifications. …

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