As anybody who has ever designed heat transfer equipment will tell you, it all comes down to tradeoffs. The specifics of the application and the priorities of the equipment’s end user will always have the greatest impact on a heat exchanger’s eventual design. For some applications, minimizing a coil’s total cost is the top priority. In such situations, our engineers will try to design a heat exchanger that’s as small as possible, using the least amount of raw materials and labor needed to meet the thermal requirement. On the other hand, for a heavy industrial application where service life and durability are the considerations of record, our approach to heat exchanger design would be entirely different.

In industries like commercial and industrial HVAC, there’s an understandably massive focus on innovations aimed at improving efficiency. Billions of dollars are spent every year on research and development to drive down operating costs without compromising on performance. Doing more with less is the name of the game, and included among the measures intended to do so is the economizer.

Cooling data center IT equipment using air has been the industry standard for as long as there's been a data center industry. However, advances in computing technology have pushed the limits of what air-cooled systems are able to efficiently keep cool, as the amount of power needed to operate those systems increases.