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Industrial Cooling

So we just sold our biggest Air cooled portable air conditioner. The Airrex HSC60, Its a beast of cooling putting out 59,900 BTU's of cooling. For this application the unit is going to be placed in a manufacturing warehouse and then flex ducting will be run to cool the two engineers working the manufacturing line. Rather than cool 60,000 sq. ft. the company will only cool around 1000, taking the temperature from 100 plus degrees to a tolerable 85. In these applications the advantages of manufacturing spot cooling become obvious. In addition the company is placing three HSC 11's on additional lines that don't reach such extreme high temperatures.

Smaller Portable Air Conditioners

Recently I have recieved questions concerning why Airrex emergency air conditioners are different from the smaller portable A/C's that you can purchase from Home Depot, Sam's, or Lowes. The answer is in the rating. While these units rate in at 12,000 BTU's, they are doing so under optimal conditions. If everything was perfect, these compressors would output that many BTU's. Cool Air's 13,600 BTU Unit, the HSC 14 is rated at 13,600 under "average operating conditions".

The Airrex units are the size of a college refrigerator for a reason. You can't fit a large compressor and all of the necessary condensing coils into a smaller package. If it were possible Airrex would do it. Invariably, people who buy the smaller units call us in when there units fail to cool the area. They might do for a small room, but don't be fooled by thinking all BTU ratings are equivalent.

Emergency Cooling and Portalbe Air Conditoners

As I mentioned in my last post, the median age is rapidly rising and migration patterns show people moving to warmer climates.

The elderly population is the most vulnerable to the dangers of heat. The elderly suffer due to the diminished ability to perspire. Since the function of perspiration is to provide evaporation, which in turn provides cooling, the elderly have a reduced capacity to release heat from the body (reference) .

Coupled with the fact that many of the air conditioners installed were installed to efficiently cool air by a 20 degree split and increased air temperatures have left many spaces in the rust-belt inadiquately cooled to accomidate the aging population. Emergency Spot Coolers will begin to fill a on-demand service accomidating homes of the elderly. Much as medical oxegen makes house calls so to will portable air conditioners. Currently some of the bigger players shun making house calls because of billing problems as well as the incovienince of serving many small customers. I think that the change is inevitable and it will be the industry challenge to make sure that enough portables are available at peak times at an affordable price. One model that lends itself well to maintaining redundant air conditioning is the assisted living centers. Nursing homes can rent multiple units when the temperature spikes and the high concentration of elderly creates efficiencies of scale that the individual home owner can not hoep to match.

Cloud Computing-Change

Change comes to all things, the question is when you embrace it and when you fight it. Spot Cooling is a niche market that found a main stream use when medium sized businesses moved to servers and established server rooms. The same connectivity that made server rooms necessary, has now increased in speed sufficiently so that it has become cost effective to move servers off site and into the cloud. Most industry analysts predict that it will take roughly 10 years for companies to make the move. The large scale of data centers allow for cost effective redundant cooling systems and remove the need for emergency air conditioning by portable air conditioners. Fortunately for portable air conditioning providers, as data centers remove the need for spot coolers in that specialized field, more companies are moving south and the increasing median age is increasing the need for emergency hospital cooling.

Portable A/C is Back

Cool Air has returned to the fray after a brief restructuring. We've opened new distribution locations in: Montgomery, Alabama-, Columbia, South Carolina, and Chattanooga TN. Were excited to be extending our reach and our great service throughout the southeast. Alternatively I just met with our partners at Portable Rental Solutions in Texas and the new Airrex line of portable air conditioners looks sweet. Airrex has put out a killer water cooled portable A/C for users who can't duct into the crawl spaces. I just returned from India where I was assisting fellow entrepreneurs expand and create new business. It was a bit humbling to sleep without air conditioning when your company is involved with one of the most niche aspects of the business. That said, I've had a few college professors remark that the southern united states owes a large part of its success to the introduction of the climactic controll. I know that where people in India can afford air conditioners they deffinitely had them. I never got a chance to stroll through Infosys but I'm sure that there server rooms have a couple hundred tons of A/C...for backup.