Cool solution for Cosworth factories

Working with Workplace Safety Management, AmbiRad has designed a low cost cooling system to efficiently cool three factories for Cosworth in Northampton which are used for machining engine components.

The evaporative cooling system ColdAIR cools air using a natural principle and is said to be on average 75% cheaper to install than air conditioning. Suitable for use where a conventional air conditioner would prove logistically difficult, the coolers can reduce the internal air temperature when required.

In Cosworth's Factory 12, for example, which has a volume of 10,650m3, eight ColdAIR RA150 units were installed onto roof input fan ducts. The fans were removed and ducting modified to accept the external cooler and 8 way discharge plenum. Existing roof extraction fans were maintained as extraction rates matched the air input rates.

AmbiRad says the ColdAIR evaporative cooling system uses only 20% of the energy used by traditional air conditioning and makes use of free latent energy in the atmosphere.