

Indirect/Direct Evaporative Cooling
Nothing beats evaporative cooling as the "greenest" method to cool a space. From kitchens and factories to data centers evaporative cooling is the most efficient cooling system available. Look for the entire evaporative cooling product line under the Product Catalog tab.

DDC Controls
Adaptaire DDC controls are standard in most Applied Air products giving you accurate control, real time monitoring, and available web access to your equipment. For more information click the link to Adaptaire.

Building Information Modeling
Applied Air offers a downloadable library of Autodesk Revit BIM objects. To see what is available follow the link to the BIM object download page.

Computational Fluid Dynamics
If the temperature distribution in your building is critical and you really want to know what to expect, contact your Applied Air representative and ask about the Applied Air CFD analysis program.
Parts for Applied Air, Alton, Aztec, and King Equipment
Applied Air and its independent rep organization is dedicated to supporting our products before and after the sale. To locate the Parts source nearest you please go to the Support-Parts link.


Direct Gas Fired Makeup Air
The Applied Air DFL is just one part of the extensive line of direct gas-fired equipment for efficient heating in a wide variety of buildings. If your building suffers from negative pressure then you need a makeup air system. Click the link for more information about the Applied Air DFL.
Who We Are
Applied Air is a manufacturer of Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) equipment ideal for controlling the temperature and quality of the indoor air in any commercial or industrial building. Our product mix includes packaged dedicated outdoor air systems and ventilation equipment, direct gas fired, indirect gas fired, air turnover, and evaporative cooling systems. Applied Air HVAC systems can provide makeup air, ventilation air, space heating, space cooling, or “green” cooling. See our product catalog to view the full range of heating, ventilating and air conditioning products.
Typical Applications
Applied Air HVAC products have been used in warehouses, distribution centers, kitchens, gymnasiums, schools, factories, waste water treatment plants, prisons, military bases, temperature critical storage, and offices. To determine whether you need an Air Turnover, Dedicated Outdoor Air Systems (DOAS), Direct Fired, Indirect Fired, or Evaporative Cooling system, visit our product selection page and choose your application from the list.
Why Use Applied Air?
Applied Air HVAC products have one of the lowest warranty cost histories in the industry. Applied Air products are designed to make post-sale service and maintenance simpler. In addition Applied Air incorporates technologies such as DDC controls, high turndown gas heat technology, digital R410a compressors, heat reclaim, outside air reheat, integrated airflow stations, web-based control interfaces, and indirect or direct evaporative (adiabatic) cooling. Applied Air also provides unique design support tools such as Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) modeling and Building Information Model (BIM) objects in Revit format.
Announcements
Air Pollution and HVAC
Over the Christmas/New Years holiday break I was able to spend some time on the road crossing Texas, New Mexico, and parts of Arizona. While I saw plenty of interesting sights it is not the ...More...
Mestex, Division of Mestek YouTube Channel
Mestex, the Dallas division of Mestek has created a YouTube channel, MestexHVAC (http://www.youtube.com/MestexHVAC?feature=guide). Mestex will start using this format website to post ...More...
Aztec Evaporative Cooling for Data Centers at Data Center World
Aztec Evaporative Cooling Solutions, a Mestex (Division of Mestek) company, will be exhibiting their evaporative cooling solution for data centers at the Data Center World Conference and Exhibit. ...More...
GreenBuild Toronto
This past week I was able to participate in the GreenBuild conference in Toronto. This was my first opportunity to attend and I have come away with a few ...More...
Trane Division of Ingersoll-Rand in Lawsuit Over Wireless Technologies
Anyone who follows what is going on in the cellular phone business these days knows that Apple and others launch a lawsuit almost daily against their competitors claiming infringement of ...More...
New BIM Objects From The Aztec Brand
We have been promoting the Aztec evaporative cooling line to the data center market lately due to the increased interest in using outside air to cool the equipment under the new ASHRAE ...More...
DOE Proposes Building Rating System
For those who might not have seen this through their own trade associations here is an announcement of a program being planned by the US DOE. It sounds similar to programs in some European ...More...
The Importance of Correct Static Pressure for Direct Fired Make-Up Air Equipment
This particular article might get a little more technical than some previous articles but a recent visit to California prompted me to put this together.
During a meeting with a ...More...
Instant Online Document Lookup Using Microsoft Tags
Over the next weeks units shipped from Mestex Dallas will begin to include a small feature that we believe will provide large benefits to our contractor customers. A common ...More...
Do Evaporative Cooling Systems Use Too Much Water?
One of the issues that will ultimately confront designers when considering evaporative cooling solutions for data centers, or any other application for that matter, is the issue of water use. ...More...
Sustainability at Mestek Dallas
I am currently at the FMA Sustainability Conference in Florida and have been listening to 2 days of presentations about ways to be a more sustainable operation. Most of the audience would be ...More...
Facebook Offers Their Outside Air Cooling Solution To All Data Center Owners
The big announcement in the information technology and data center world today was that Facebook has decided to make their data center and custom server designs open to the public to use in their own ...More...
Restaurant Energy Saving Idea That Can Be Used Anywhere
For those who might have missed it there is an interesting Technical Feature in the March, 2011 issue of the ASHRAE Journal. The article deals with "Energy Savings for Quick Service Restaurants" ...More...
Planning for Volatility
This post is a little different than most of my entries but is something that anyone in the construction related industries should pay attention to. We all feel the results of the Middle East unrest ...More...
Ever Wonder Where the Power Goes in a Data Center?
This diagram illustrates how the various components in a typical data center, designed according to old practice, contribute to overall data center energy use.
The interesting, and ...More...
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