Healthcare
Energy conservation, occupant comfort and a healthy environment are just a few of the factors that must be addressed when designing HVAC systems for institutional and healthcare facilities. Whether you’re designing for new construction or just improving conditions in your existing building, we have the knowledge and resources to create an environment that ensures patient health and safety.
AEC is proud to be Kentucky’s exclusive representative of the following products.
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Air-Handling Units
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AEC offers ClimateCraft, VTS, Annexair, Semco, SystemAir and AAON air handling units. Our many options result in units that are engineered for performance, flexibility, and serviceability. We can design custom replacement units to fit in the tightest of spaces or provide any configuration required for new construction.
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Bi-Polar Ionization IAQ Systems
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This equipment is mounted inside the central air conditioning system either in the air-handling unit itself, or on the main supply ductwork. The ions generated attack pollutants where they are most problematic – where we work, learn, live, eat, and sleep. Learn more about Bi-Polar Ionization IAQ Systems on Plasma Air's website.
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Chillers
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Air Equipment Company is the exclusive representative in Kentucky for AAON. AAON chillers are engineered for performance and serviceability. Variable-capacity compressors and high-efficiency air-cooled and evaporative-cooled condensing are available to maximize performance. Factory-engineered and installed chilled water pumping packages complete the system. Factory installed controls arrive ready for operation. AAON chiller outdoor mechanical rooms feature weatherproof double wall rigid polyurethane foam panel construction with lighted walk-in service compartments to allow maximum accessibility while installing and maintaining the equipment. A boiler and boiler pumping package can also be factory-installed in the outdoor mechanical room.If you have a critical application where redundancy is required. Multistack modular chillers offer high efficiency, redundancy, expandability, serviceability, low sound and minimal carbon footprint. Multistack boasts speedy ship cycles including the best in the industry for modular chillers.
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Critical Airflow Controls
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Whether it’s a research environment with fume hoods, a life science lab or a healthcare application, Air Equipment Company and Phoenix Controls are the experts at providing safe, reliable and cost-effective solutions for ventilation, pressurization and comfort controls of these critical environments. Our solutions start at a project's planning phase and continue through project commissioning, ensuring the best owning experience possible.
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Custom and Modular Air-Handling Units
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For those who can’t afford equipment downtime, AEC offers ClimateCraft, VTS , SystemAir, Annexair and AAON units. Many of our manufacturers offer units that are a plug-and-play style unit that are ready to install with factory mounted controls and end devices. They can ship in one week!
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Condensers & Condensing Units
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AAON Condensers & Condensing Units are engineered to be energy-efficient, long lasting, and easy to install. All condensing units are completely factory-assembled, piped, wired, and run-tested. Many available options are factory-installed to minimize field installation time and reduce costs.
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Dehumidification Equipment
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Using desiccant-based technology, Desert Aire’s and CDI dehumidification equipment systems provide for plastic injection molding, confectionery production, pharmaceutical pill coating, environment chambers, filter weighing rooms, ice rinks and water treatment plants.
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Electric Heaters and Air Curtains
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The VTS VOLCANO is a heating unit is a device used for heating small, medium and large spaces such as a shop, car workshop, greenhouse, production hall, arena or warehouse. The optimal shape of the fan and the use of an efficient EC motor provide up to 40% energy savings compared to traditional solutions.
The VTS WING air curtain is a device that aims to create an invisible barrier that separates environments with different air parameters from each other. The curtain is available in three sizes with three options - a two-row water heat exchanger, an electric heater and an option without a heat exchanger.
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Energy-Recovery Systems
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Air Equipment Company represents Annexair, SystemAir, Desert Aire, and AAON outside air and energy-recovery systems. Products include modular outside air units, heat pipes, enthalpy wheels, air-to-air heat exchangers and pool systems.
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Fan Coil Units
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As the leader in hydronic fan coil units, International Environmental Corporation (IEC) covers a full spectrum of horizontal and vertical systems, modular hi-rise, and belt-driven fan coils.
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Filters & Air Cleaners
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Dynamic Air Cleaners utilize active–field, non-ionizing polarized-media technology. These filter replacement air-cleaners are based on charging or polarizing fibers in a media and particles within the air in order to generate an electric force between the fibers and particles. Dynamic Air Quality Solutions is dedicated to providing advanced and affordable solutions that optimize air quality, energy consumption, and their impact on the environment.
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High Efficiency Filters, Frames & Housings
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HEPA and ULPA filtration products are for sensitive applications where high levels of protection via filtration are required. Special applications such Cleanroom Panels, Ducted Terminal Modules, Fan Powered Terminals / Fan Filter Units, Pharma-Replaceable Terminal Modules and Critical Environment Diffusers are where the Filtration Group specializes. A proud full-line supplier of both filters and filter housings, Filtration Group offers custom housing to specification to fit every end user need. Design considerations can include number of stages, filter types and sizes, and of course, total airflow. From products as simple as filter holding frames to Pleat V-Bank housings, HEPA multi-stage housings, Bag-In/Bag-Out housings, and Isolation Room Containment systems, your filtration needs are met.
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Hospital Air Terminal Units
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Looking for Hospital Air Terminal Units? Air Equipment Company is the exclusive representative for Precision Air Products, manufacturers of laminar flow diffusers and integrated ceilings. Applications:
- Operating rooms
- Airborne infection control for labs
- Burn units
- Isolation rooms
- Bone marrow and organ transplant rooms
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Humidifiers
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With Condair humidifiers, you can select a system that is right for your unique application. Available options include operating through electrode steam, subsonic air nozzles, high-pressure nozzles, evaporative steam injection, steam exchange, or gas-fired technology.
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Indoor Environmental Quality
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As the leading manufacturer of integrated sensing and control solutions, Aircuity reduces building energy and operating expenses while simultaneously improving indoor environmental quality.
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Isolation Room Exhaust Fans
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Strobic Air’s unique Tri-Stack design ensures adequate velocity and dilution to effectively discharge fumes away from air intake systems and building roofs. New York Blower manufactures industrial-quality centrifugal and vaneaxial fans. Fans are available with corrosion-resistant coatings, stainless steel and fiberglass construction. Applications include TB isolation rooms, laboratory fume hood exhaust, and diesel-generated exhaust.
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Isolation Room Pressurization
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Phoenix Controls manufactures room pressure monitors and controllers. A color touch screen can be customized so each individual facility may incorporate their preferred images, messages and icons. Phoenix Controls manufactures precision airflow control systems for patient rooms, isolation rooms, operating rooms, and hospital pharmacies.
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Modular Central Plants
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Modular central plants from Systecon & AAON are custom-designed, factory-assembled and performance-tested central plants. Plants integrate chillers, boilers, generators, cooling towers, heat exchangers, pumps, and controls. Plants can be designed for indoor applications or include an enclosure for outdoor installation. Overall risk to the owner, engineer and contractor is reduced by providing systems that are factory-assembled and tested.
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Modular Chillers
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A modular chiller design features a small footprint with redundant operation. Multistack chillers are available in multiple tonnages that can be combined to obtain specific project turndown and capacity requirements. The modular design also accommodates future expansions by allowing modules to be added in stages accommodating increasing cooling requirements. Modular chillers are utilized in a wide variety of commercial and industrial applications such as cooling, heat recovery, geothermal heat pump and simultaneous heating and cooling heat recovery.
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Operating Room Air Distribution Systems
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Precision Air Products manufactures laminar flow diffusers and integrated ceilings. Applications for Operating Room Air Distribution Systems include operating rooms, airborne infection control for labs, burn units, isolation rooms, and bone marrow & organ transplant rooms.
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Outside Air Monitoring and Control Systems
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Looking for outside air monitoring and control systems? Air Monitor Corporation manufactures high-quality air measurement and control devices such as electronic thermal-dispersion airflow measuring stations, probe traverse airflow measuring stations, fan inlet airflow traverse probes, stainless-steel airflow traverse probes, static pressure probes and more.
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Packaged Rooftop Units
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Looking for packaged rooftop units? Whether you need heat pumps, split systems or packaged units, Air Equipment Company offers AAON units that provide efficient solutions for dehumidification, heat recovery, heating, cooling, make-up air, air quality and controls.
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Polypropylene Piping Systems
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Air Equipment Company is the exclusive representative in Kentucky for Polypropylene Piping Systems, or ISCO PP-RCT. ISCO PP-RCT pipe and fittings are made using a unique random copolymer polypropylene high-crystallinity resin. An encapsulated layer reduces thermal expansion by up to 75% compared to other plastic piping systems. The coefficient of linear expansion with PP-RCT is similar to copper piping systems. This mix of materials produces higher temperature and pressure ratings than the standard commercially available PPR products.
Applications For Use
- Hot and cold potable water
- Cooling tower water supply/return recirculation
- Chilled water distribution
- Propylene and ethylene glycol distribution
- Hydronic heating distribution
- Plant water distribution
- Chemical process piping
- Fire sprinkler piping
- Recycled, reclaimed and rainwater retention applications
- Compressed air
Polypropylene Is Rapidly Replacing
- Copper
- CPVC
- Stainless Steel
- Carbon Steel
- Black Steel
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Pool Units
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Desert Aire manufactures pool units, spa units, and natatorium units that specialize in heated pool water with recycled energy, horizontal and vertical configurations, outdoor rooftop and indoor installation and more.
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UV Lights & Carbon Products
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Fresh-Aire UV is an innovation leader in the field of indoor air quality. They offer UV light and carbon products designed to fight mold, bacteria, viruses and odors in commercial and residential HVAC systems. Their products include Blue-Tube UV, the world’s most popular germicidal UV light, the revolutionary APCO PCO/carbon whole-house air purifier, and Mini UV the first UV light system designed specifically for mini-split AC systems.
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Variable Frequency Drives
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ABB is the world’s largest manufacturer of variable frequency drives. For half a century, ABB has been leading the way in optimizing HVAC systems using drive control to ensure that you can take comfort for granted. The new ACH580 series of variable frequency drives (VFDs) provide the quality, reliability, and energy savings you expect, and are easy to use and safe to maintain.
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Variable-Refrigerant-Flow (VRF) Systems
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Variable-Refrigerant-Flow (LGVRF) Systems transport heat between an outdoor condensing unit and a network of indoor units near or within a conditioned space through refrigerant piping. Attributes that distinguish VRF from other DX systems include multiple indoor units connected to a common outdoor unit, scalability, variable capacity, distributed control, and simultaneous heating and cooling. We are the exclusive representative for LG VRF and Duct-Free Systems as well as HMax line sets, brackets, condensate pumps and valves/fittings for ductless systems.
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Water-Source Heat Pumps
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Water-source heat pumps are good for many reasons. As the most energy-, cost-, and space-efficient systems in the industry, ClimateMaster and AAON Water-Source Geothermal Heat Pump systems can be used in either heating or cooling mode year-round.
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