Evaporative module
Evaporative modules are available in a range of sizes from 600mm to 4,200mm wide and 625mm to 4,000mm high.
Condair ME
Evaporative humidifier and cooler
The Condair ME provides low energy humidification and evaporative cooling to an air handling unit or duct. A single unit can provide up to 1,080kg/hr of humidification and 740kW of evaporative cooling to an air stream while operating on less than 1kW of electricity.
This system is designed with advanced hygiene technologies, including aerosol-free humidity control and optional UV water treatment.
This system is designed with advanced hygiene technologies, including aerosol-free humidity control and optional UV water treatment.
Condair ME evaporative humidifier and cooler
Innovative hydraulic unit
The Condair ME has a patented compact hydraulic unit that can be mounted on the evaporative module inside the AHU or externally on the outside wall. Exterior mounting enables service work to be carried out without AHU downtime. Interior mounting minimises installation requirements.
The innovative hydraulic unit incorporates a water tank, up to seven pumps and a pump assisted drain. It is delivered fully assembled and has simple push-fit pipe connections, finger release screws and hand tightened pump mounts for easy servicing.
The full hydraulic unit, or any of its individual components, can be removed and exchanged in minutes making the Condair ME ideal for critical applications that require minimal downtime.
The innovative hydraulic unit incorporates a water tank, up to seven pumps and a pump assisted drain. It is delivered fully assembled and has simple push-fit pipe connections, finger release screws and hand tightened pump mounts for easy servicing.
The full hydraulic unit, or any of its individual components, can be removed and exchanged in minutes making the Condair ME ideal for critical applications that require minimal downtime.
Ideal for direct and indirect cooling
The Condair ME is trusted by the world’s leading data centre companies to provide low energy cooling across various AHU evaporative cooling strategies. It can be used to boost the cooling capacity of free-air cooling systems, or in combination with heat recovery units to pre-cool incoming fresh air, through humidification and cooling of extract air prior to exhaust.
Low energy, pump-driven stage control
Multiple low energy pumps provide up to five-stage control as standard on units up to 3m wide. On units from 3-4.2m wide, up to seven-stage control is available using two hydraulic units. Unlike single pump systems, output adjustments can be made on the control panel without any mechanical alterations to valves.
Multiple pumps also reduce running costs as low outputs can be met with the minimal number of pumps and a respective reduction in energy consumption. With two pumps running the humidifier only consumes 85W, unlike a single pump system that would need up to 500W.
Multiple pumps also reduce running costs as low outputs can be met with the minimal number of pumps and a respective reduction in energy consumption. With two pumps running the humidifier only consumes 85W, unlike a single pump system that would need up to 500W.
Modular design
Evaporative modules are available in a range in sizes from 600mm to 4,200mm wide and 625mm to 4,000mm high. Cassettes are delivered flat-packed for easy assembly on site in a 304 stainless steel framework.
Finger release screws
Thoughtful design allows for quick access to the hydraulic unit and easy servicing.
Frictionless magnetic pumps
Mulitple 24V dc pumps provide up to seven stage control. The pumps have magnetic drive impellors for frictionless operation, exceptionally long service lifetime and low energy use.
Touch screen control panel
A touch-screen control panel with intuitive interface allows software-based commissioning and has detailed operational, servicing and fault displays.
Pump assisted drain
A pump assisted drain improves humidity control by draining significantly faster than a gravity drain and reduces servicing by removing more deposits from the system.
Drain tray with submerged UV
An optional submerged UV combats microbial growth in the water after it has been exposed to contaminants in the airstream.
Frequently asked questions
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Facebook / Meta, Sweden
This data centre in Lulea Sweden is one of the world's most efficient and sustainable data centres. Condair evaporative humidifiers add up to 22,800 litres per hour to the air in the penthouse ventilation systems to maintain the humidity to ASHRAE standards across the data halls.
McEwan Hall at the University of Edinburgh
The pipe organ in McEwan Hall is one of the hall’s most distinctive features and historically one of the more unusual organs in Britain. The organ was built in 1897 by the innovative British organ builder and inventor Robert Hope-Jones and refurbished in 2010 by Forth Pipe Organs. Condair resistive steam and evaporative humidifiers are helping maintain the ideal humidity for optimum musical resonance and preservation.
Jaguar Land Rover, UK
Jaguar Land Rover employ Condair evaporative humidifiers for use in its exhaust emissions testing facility at the company's Product Compliance Centre in Solihull, UK. The evaporative humidifiers provide humidity control to two rolling-road engine test cells to ensure compliance with international environmental parameters.
Microsoft, Ireland
Microsoft Dublin uses an "open air cooling" system rather than mechanical chillers to maintain the low internal temperatures required around its servers. Fresh air is continuously introduced into the building and mixed with recirculated indoor air.
35 Condair evaporative humidifiers provide up to 8C of energy-efficient evaporative cooling to its huge data rooms. This combined use of fresh air and evaporative cooling has enabled the data centre to eliminate the need for mechanical cooling for 95% of the year.
35 Condair evaporative humidifiers provide up to 8C of energy-efficient evaporative cooling to its huge data rooms. This combined use of fresh air and evaporative cooling has enabled the data centre to eliminate the need for mechanical cooling for 95% of the year.
Cork Internet Exchange, Ireland
The Condair ME evaporative humidifier is providing adiabatic cooling in an innovative indirect cooling system at the Cork Internet Exchange (CIX) in Ireland. An indirect air-to-air evaporative cooling system maintains the temperature across CIX's data halls without using any chillers and with 75% less energy than a traditionally cooled data centre.
A cool recovery with Konvekta
The Condair ME evaporative humidifier is being used by energy recovery specialists, Konvekta, as one of its standard adiabatic cooling solutions. As an example, a recent installation at a clinic in Tyrol, Austria, resulted in a confirmed annual energy recovery across the Konvekta systems of 92% for the building. A single Condair ME humidifier contributed more than 60,000kWh/a of cooling during this period from just 3,800kwh/a of consumed electricity.
The State Hermitage Museum
The Hermitage is not only part of the St. Petersburg historic city center, which has been designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, but is also one of the world's largest and most important art museums. The Hermitage contains over 350 exhibition rooms in which 65,000 pieces are displayed. In all, the archive is home to an impressive 2.7 million exhibition pieces and archaeological artifacts from Russia and Central and Western Europe, including antique artworks and prehistoric objects. To help keep the exhibits in top condition, Condair steam humidifiers are used to ensure optimal air humidity levels.
Apple Campus, Cupertino
Cupertino, California, located close to San Francisco, is home to the headquarters of American technology company Apple. The building was designed by British architect Norman Foster, who realized the idea of an oversized ring in connection with the former Apple Campus at Infinite Loop No. 1 in Cupertino.
At a diameter of almost half a kilometre (461 m), the building complex offers a gigantic usable area of 260,000 m2 and space for 12,000 employees. The ring contains a 130,000 m2 park with rest areas, cafés, sports facilities and a rainbow-coloured festival stage, which was inaugurated by Lady Gaga in 2018. Powered entirely by renewable energy,
the building features a 17-megawatt rooftop solar energy system and energy-efficient evaporative cooling from Condair.
At a diameter of almost half a kilometre (461 m), the building complex offers a gigantic usable area of 260,000 m2 and space for 12,000 employees. The ring contains a 130,000 m2 park with rest areas, cafés, sports facilities and a rainbow-coloured festival stage, which was inaugurated by Lady Gaga in 2018. Powered entirely by renewable energy,
the building features a 17-megawatt rooftop solar energy system and energy-efficient evaporative cooling from Condair.
Boston Scientific
The Boston Scientific Corporation is a worldwide developer, manufacturer and marketer of medical devices whose products are used in a range of interventional medical specialties. It is primarily known for the development of the Taxus Stent, a drug-eluting stent, which is used to open clogged arteries.
National Museum of Ireland
National Museum of Ireland - Decorative Arts and History, including the Great Seal of the Irish Free State, is the part of the collection kept at the Collins Barracks site, a former military barracks named after Michael Collins in 1922. Condair evaporative humidifiers are helping maintain the ideal humidity for preservation of the artefacts.
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children
Condair evaporative humidifiers have been selected by AHS (Air Handling Systems) to provide evaporative cooling in the innovative OptEvent&trade air handling unit. The humidifier cools the return air with low energy cold water humidification in this packaged heat recovery system that has been independently verified by BSRIA. Working on behalf of a leading and progressive London children's hospital, AHS was tasked to develop a packaged liquid-coupled heat recovery system to meet the hospital's demands for hygiene, comfort and energy efficiency. The result was OptEvent, which packages a Condair evaporative humidifier with an AHU and includes a pre-programmed ECM (Energy Control Module) that constantly ensures the minimum amount of energy is used to meet the air requirements.
Lakeland Pavers Ltd
Lakeland Pavers manufacture of top-quality concrete block paving and permeable paving and supply many stockists and contractors throughout the UK.Evaporative humidifiers from Condar are helping cure Lakeland Pavers concrete products.
University of Glasgow
The University of Glasgow is the fourth oldest university in the English-speaking world and was founded in 1451. Glasgow is the largest university in Scotland by total enrolment and with over 19,500 postgraduates and the second-largest in the United Kingdom by postgraduate enrolment.Condair humidification systems are used in many buildings at The University of Glasgow, across research, healthcare, archive and art gallery areas, as well as for animal and human health purposes.
Warburtons Ltd
Warburtons is a British baking firm founded by Thomas Warburton in 1876. The company has a 24% share of the UK bread market and is the most popular bread in the United Kingdom.Condair evaporative humidifiers are providing evaporative cooling and humidification to its Bristol bakery.
Quotes from our customers
What’s important for us in choosing a humidifier partner is having confidence that they understand the application and that the solution genuinely fits the environment we’re working in. Condair’s range gives us that flexibility. Whether we’re dealing with a large performance venue or a much smaller, more challenging space, Condair’s humidifiers and application advice always help us find the right humidity solution.
By reducing the temperature of the outside air entering the penthouse ventilation area with the Condair MEs, the air being drawn into the external airstream of the air handling units is significantly cooler than the outside air. This enables the indirect cooling system to maintain the desired data hall temperature of 24°C, even in the hottest months of the year.
Konvekta has standardised its exhaust air cooling systems on the Condair ME humidifier as its evaporative cooling solution. The reliability of the unit is second-to-none. It incorporates the highest quality components that give utmost longevity and performance to our clients. Alongside the product’s USPs, Condair is also a very solutions-oriented partner.
Weatherite only uses the highest quality components in its HVAC solutions, and this includes Condair’s evaporative humidifier. It certainly delivered on our specific requirements for operation, control and hygiene management, and we’ve been very pleased with the support offered by Condair in connection with this successful project.
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