Air Innovations - Environmental Control Units

Air Innovations designs and builds environmental control units for processes that need exact conditions. These units control temperature, humidity and air filtration. The company says standard heating and cooling gear cannot meet some needs. In those cases it builds a custom system that fits the customer's limits and goals.

The site gives some numbers for the range. The units can hold a space between 0 and 100 degrees Fahrenheit, with tolerances as tight as 0.02 degrees Celsius. They can control humidity from trace moisture up to 85 percent relative humidity, within half a percent. The company also works with direct-expansion, chilled-water and thermoelectric cooling methods.

Alongside custom work, the company sells a set of standard products. Its cleanroom units control temperature, humidity, air pressure and airflow rate. Product names on the site include AdvancAir, HEPAir and ArrayAir. Healthcare units keep rooms sterile, create positive or negative pressure and cut indoor air pollution. IsolationAir is its hospital contamination control system.

Several other product lines appear on the site. MyZone is a desk system that joins heating and cooling, lighting control and desk height control in one unit. Wine Guardian is a brand of low-temperature units for wine rooms, which can also serve art storage, fur storage and humidor rooms. Cabin Cool is a personal air conditioner that attaches to a forklift cabin and blows cool air at the operator.

The company lists project examples across many fields. Aerospace and defense cases include an environmental control unit for Lockheed Martin and a mobile thermostatting unit for the Korea Aerospace Research Institute. Others cover units for reusable rocket engines, military response vehicles and multi-function radar. Healthcare cases include sterile storage cabinets for VA hospitals and negative pressure rooms in clinics. Pharmaceutical and chemical process projects also appear.

The company runs its own research and development department to create, test and check its designs. A psychrometric testing facility is also listed. Psychrometric testing measures air and moisture conditions. The firm says its technical and manufacturing staff are cross-trained on all product lines.

The website describes each product line and gives case studies for review.