FAQ – General
By ensuring better air quality, it is crucial to keep a clean and secure environment for employees to work in. To guarantee proper pollution extraction, there are primarily two methods. The first is a targeted exhaust system, in which we install a number of exhaust ducts to remove these pollutants from particular areas of your activities, typically at the sources of said pollutants. The second strategy involves establishing a consistent air exchange in your space, either through ducted exhaust systems or by using a combination of exhaust fans scattered throughout the area. This ensures that fresh air is consistently introduced and stale and polluted air is consistently removed.
The result of welding that poses the greatest health risk to people is welding fumes. Additionally, an excessive buildup of welding fumes in your workplace may reduce staff visibility, raising the risk of mishaps. We strongly advise against extracting welding fumes and releasing them around your structure. Right outside your neighborhood, this would result in a buildup of welding fumes, which could create additional environmental issues. We advise collecting and filtering the welding fumes as an alternative. Our Fume Collector devices, which use a number of filters to collect the fumes, can help you do this. The end result is a much tidier and structured working environment for your employees.
Lower employee turnover, greater satisfaction, and higher output are all possible outcomes of improved air quality and workplace comfort. If the workplace is safer and cleaner, there will be fewer mishaps.
We will first send one of our system designers to survey the location you have marked. We will focus on your machine and employee work layout, process heat and contamination source, if any, solar heat radiation from the roof and walls, the external environment for air fresh intake, and lastly all existing obstacles to a proper installation during our inspection. Our strategy is to offer a comprehensive answer to address the heat stress issues in your workplace rather than just selling you the equipment.
FAQ – Open Space Cooling
Open Space Cooling is a cutting-edge idea that provides cool air to cool down industrial workspaces to the ideal degree of comfort. Using evaporative cooling technology, we use our Open Space Cooler units to transform the hot, dry air in the atmosphere into cold, fresh air. The cool air is then distributed throughout your workspace using insulated panel ducts that are made especially for your needs. The primary goal of open space cooling is to lower the temperature in your workspace while increasing worker comfort and output.
The latent heat of evaporation, which occurs when water dissipates, causes the air around it to cool. According to the science of thermodynamics, when water transforms from liquid to vapor, heat must be eliminated from the air around it. The Open Space Cooler is designed so that water will purposefully evaporate, cooling the air that travels through it. The latent thermal energy, which is responsible for cooling the air, originates from the atmosphere.
The relative humidity and temperature of the outside air have a significant impact on the Open Space Cooler’s source temperature. To put it simply, evaporative cooling functions best when the outside air entering the system is hot and dry, allowing for a more significant temperature decline.
The cooler cooling media’s saturation effectiveness is another important consideration. A faster rate of evaporative cooling is possible with a greater saturation efficiency. Our Open Space Coolers can deliver air that is up to 10°C colder than the ambient temperature under the best circumstances.
For example, if the outside air temperature is 38°C, the cooler is able to take that air and cool it down to 28°C in the most ideal of atmospheric conditions where the outside air is hot and dry.
It is common to place Open Space Coolers outside so that the cooling media can be exposed to the outside environment and function properly. Through a network of air ducts, the cooler’s internal axial fan transports the cool air into the structure. An air diffuser or air inlet mounted on the air ducts ultimately distributes the cool air into the room or area.
Our skilled designers and installers have created these air ducts specially to suit your workspace.
The air ducts must be sufficiently insulated to prevent heat from accessing the duct system in order to keep the air cool.
To guarantee that the air provided is clean, the Open Space Cooling system is compatible with air filtration units. Depending on the needs of the application, it can adhere to the majority of filtration efficiencies and is compatible with a wide range of fine, coarse, and HEPA filters. Such systems have been installed by us in a range of industrial facilities.
Although air conditioning might be your first choice for cooling down your factory space, the truth is that operating such a system in any sizable open area will be very expensive, particularly in hot climates like those in the ASEAN region.
The typical industrial steel structure in ASEAN is usually semi-enclosed, which means that openings like doorways and louvres were intended to promote natural airflow.
The cost of the expenditure will increase further if an air conditioning system is chosen that requires completely enclosing the workspace. Finding a practical way to cool down your factory space requires further thought and expertise.
The Open Space Cooler uses a remarkably small amount of energy, almost all of which goes towards moving the cool air through the air distribution system. The free latent energy in the atmosphere, also known as the latent heat of evaporation, is what gives the air its cooling effect. As a result, convective heat exchange can use as little as 8–10% less electricity than air conditioning.
A custom ventilation system created specially to fit the layout of your factory, the Open Space Cooling system. Therefore, when designing and installing such a system in your space, many variables must be taken into account. We strongly advise against attempting to implement it yourself and instead ask our professionals for help. They have more than 20 years of combined experience in designing, creating, and installing systems like this for workplaces just like yours.
The design of your system might require several weeks because our designers will need to visit the site several times to ensure that the plan is well-considered and can suit your space effectively.
The size of the Open Space Cooling system and the site’s current circumstances will determine how the installation is done. Our progress will also be significantly impacted by how frequently we can enter your site and perform installation work. A normal installation can take a few weeks or a few months to complete.
With a few exclusions, almost any kind of industrial workspace area can use the Open Space Cooling system:
- Locations that need particular cooling, like machinery or food that needs to be refrigerated.
- Areas that have extremely high temperatures stemming from the type of operations taking space such as foundries.
- Areas that are fully outdoor with no roof protection.
Definitely not. Our system uses wetted heat transfer media, which is extremely water absorbent, as opposed to misty fans. The air passage is not also misted with water. If you hold a piece of glass up to the supply air for hours, you won’t notice any wetness on the surface because the air is completely devoid of any water vapor.
We must first realise that, technically, there are two ways to determine the “humidity” of the air. Relative humidity is a comparison of the amount of water in the air to the maximum amount of water that the air can hold, whereas humidity ratio, also known as moisture content, measures the actual quantity of moisture in the air (g of moisture/Kg of dry air).
When you express worry about “humidity,” you are really expressing concern about the amount of moisture added to the air by open space cooling.
Even though the relative humidity appears to have risen significantly, the moisture content of the supply air has only slightly increased.
Your goods won’t generally be affected by the rise in moisture content, which was measured over four samples of operating conditions typical of SEA nations and ranged between 1.4g and 3g/kg of dry air. because it is much too small a rise.
Nearly all other production workspaces won’t have any negative effects on the products, with the exception of electronics components, labels printing, and wafer plants, which are already located in precise temperature- and humidity-controlled environments.
Manufacturing facilities for instant noodles, metal cans, tissue, and sanitary napkins, as well as other sensitive industries, have effectively implemented open space cooling systems. In extremely hot seasons, it has also been used to cool electrical control screens.
In order to ensure that the workspace is eventually advantageous for manufacturing, steps are being taken since the Open Space Cooling system is offered on a design, supply, installation, and testing basis. Installing exhaust fans that are properly sized and placed in strategic locations throughout the workplace is one affordable way to control the moisture content. Before designing the supply air and exhaust air systems, we must examine the workspace.
Our Open Space Coolers come with a 1-year warranty from the first day it is installed and running at your location. The cooling pads within the cooler have a 2-year warranty period from the same day.
To maintain the Open Space Cooler’s cooling efficiency at its highest possible degree, maintenance is essential. We advise you to sanitise the cooler’s exterior and interior by giving it a light water hose spray at least once per month. Without regular upkeep, the cooling cushion may deteriorate more quickly and may not be as effective at cooling the intake air.