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When you walk along the beach in San Diego and feel a cool breeze coming off the water, this is a great example of evaporative cooling. However, if you go inland 50 miles, you will feel a very real difference because of the high dry bulb temperature with no evaporation taking place. Evaporative cooling takes place when […]

Below is an excerpt from a recently published article on cooling large facilities: “What do large distribution centers, warehouses, Wal-Mart, Sam’s Club, Costco, and Lowe’s all have in common? These facilities are all part of what have commonly become known as the big box stores in the construction industry. One would have to admit that over the […]

When considering whether a facility should go with a built up mechanical room or a Chil-Pak® packaged central plant the following four things should be considered: Initial Cost-Chil-Pak® is able to provide facilities with an effective central plant solution at 10-15% the cost of a traditional built up mechanical room. Reduced Lead Time-Because the engineering and system […]

One of the easiest ways to achieve optimal performance from evaporative cooling equipment is to perform routine maintenance including regularly replacing the cooling media.  CoolingMedia.com provides a quick, efficient, and convenient way to purchase the media for your evaporative coolers.  For customers that have high volume needs CoolingMedia.com offers bulk pricing.  Visit CoolingMedia.com in order to take […]

As it becomes more and more apparent that the data center world will be facing governmental regulation the IDU (indirect-direct unit) is an excellent environmentally friendly cooling solution.  The IDU uses a two stage cooling process to maximize energy effectiveness without sacrificing cool supply air temperatures, at half the energy cost of A/C or compressurized systems. United […]

Chil-Pak® offers a fully integrated packaged central plant that is an excellent compliment for containerized data centers. The Chil-Pak® packaged plant provides data center owners with a modular, scalable, and redundant cooling solution for their facilities. Because Chil-Pak’s® packaged plant is designed by an interdependent team of highly trained engineers, they are able to offer several competitive […]

With over 30 years of experience providing energy efficient cooling solutions, United Metal is the natural choice when it comes to providing green cooling solutions for data centers.  The solution based cooling designs that United Metal Products offers provides mission critical facilities with a range of choices to meet their specific needs. “United Metal Products is offering […]

Steve Kinkel, CEO, and Harold Simmons, Special Projects Director, of United Metal Products recently published an article entitled “The Green Solution for Big Box Cooling” in the ACHR News.  In the article the authors give the following six reasons why evaporative cooling is the “green solution” for providing temperature control in big box facilities: NATURE’S OWN COOLING […]