A Ventilation Solution – Reducing Internal Temperature by over 25%

Key Objectives

The Challenge

Whatever your work environment, maintaining a comfortable internal temperature all year round is challenging.

Whether caused by humid weather or heat-generating processes in your facility, rises in temperature can affect employee and customer well-being.

One of our customers, a whisky producer, faced this challenge within their bottling hall. The heat-intensive manufacturing processes and a large number of people in their plant saw internal temperatures drastically increase.

Due to regulations at the time, they were unable to find a suitable air conditioning or ventilation solution that met their needs. Our combined solution reduced internal temperatures by over 25%, improving staff productivity and enhancing customer comfort while reducing CO₂ emissions and reducing costs.

The Solution

Once our team understood the challenge, they carried out an extensive site survey to determine the facility’s requirements and how best to help supply cool and fresh air to our customer’s bottling hall.

Following the survey, we determined that combining both evaporative cooling and hybrid roof ventilation would offer the best results and ensure all objectives were met.

Evaporative cooling provides the most cost-effective, energy-efficient cooling solution for large industrial facilities.

In comparison to traditional air conditioning, which is associated with high capital and regular maintenance and running costs, evaporative cooling is both cost-effective to maintain and boasts an 80-85% saving on energy costs compared to regular A/C, resulting in a lower carbon footprint.

Evaporative coolers use 100% fresh air, drawing hot ambient (outside) air through a wetted matrix that absorbs the heat ensuring cooled air is passed into the building.

Hybrid roof ventilation offers a highly efficient, quiet, lightweight and low-energy method of ventilating buildings and enclosed spaces by extracting stale, warm air. The installation process is simple with a single-phase power input and advanced EC motor technology delivering long-lasting performance and durability.

Its two-mode system, controlled to minimise energy consumption, maintains acceptable indoor air quality and thermal comfort by combining natural and mechanical ventilation.

When required, performance is boosted by activating mechanical operation to ensure desired airflow rates are achieved.

Traditionally, excess heat and fumes have been exhausted from buildings by expensive-to-run, noisy, high-maintenance mechanical extraction systems. But, especially in well-sealed modern buildings, hybrid roof ventilation is an effective, durable and energy-efficient way to keep your internal temperature appropriate.

The Result

This combined solution, which saw stale, warm air removed by the hybrid ventilation system and cool, fresh air delivered into the building by the evaporative cooler, resulted in a drop in internal temperature of over 25%.