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United Metal Products® recently provided Energy Recovery UnitsTM (ERU) for a large military medical facility that trains some of the country’s brightest and best medical professionals.  The application required that the engineers design the individual units to have a 112,000 CFM capacity,  be equipped with sound attenuators, and heat recovery wheels. United Metal Products® came up with […]

The fully integrated packaged central plant by Chil-Pak® is an excellent solution for data center cooling.  Chil-Pak® is a manufacturer of integrated packaged plants that provides complete chilled water solutions at the lowest possible cost to building owners in just a few months. The Chil-Pak® Central Plant SolutionTM reduces engineering design time, reduces the cost of field […]

Now is the time to make sure the evaporative cooling equipment on your facility is ready for hot weather by replacing the evaporative media.  CoolingMedia.com offers a wide range of pre-packaged replacement media kits to fit the most popular evaporative cooling equipment on the market.  In addition to the pre-packaged kits CoolingMedia.com also offers high quality custom […]

If you need help determining the right evaporative cooling technology for your facility, the experienced design team at United Metal Products would be more than happy to assist you.  For projects throughout the United States and the World please contact Harold Simmons  at h.simmons@unitedmetal.com or call 480.968.9550

As temperatures continue to rise, now is the time to replace the media in your evaporative coolers.CoolingMedia.com provides replacement media for industrial, commercial, and residential evaporative coolers. They provide their clients with very competitive pricing, fast shipping, and excellent customer service. Visit CoolingMedia.com and follow the simple four step process to receive a quote for your evaporative […]

This is part three of three in a series on making sense of the psychrometric chart.  Dr. John Watt gave a very helpful explanation for how to read the chart below is step 5-8.  (To read the previous posts click here and here) 5.  “A process in which air of two different states is mixed is shown […]

Below is the brief and helpful summary that Dr.  John Watt provided  for using the psychrometric chart. “Typical thermodynamic processes trace paths on the chart from their initial states points as follows: A simple heating process moves horizontally to the right; a simple cooling process horizontally to the left.  The dew point temperature and specific humidity remain […]

To get a glimpse at the construction standards for United Metal Products’® evaporative cooling solutions click on the following link: Construction Standards for United Metal Products’® Industrial and Commercial Evaporative Cooling Equipment

Dr. John Watt gave the following helpful explanation for reading and understanding the  psychrometric chart. “To simplify calculations, psychometric properties of nondry air are plotted on standard psycrometic charts…Given values for any two psychrometric properties, all others can be found without computation.  The chart is arranged as follows: Lines of constant dry-bulb temperature are vertical. Lines of […]

United Metal Products has a slide show highlighting some of the components used in their cooling equipment.  Click here to view the slide show (for bets results watch in full screen mode).