Case Studies Category: Research

The Challenge: The project was an environmental control unit (ECU) for a clean room in a research complex that presented challenges in both space restriction and climate control. The project needed multiple clean room air conditioners that could fit into a small, restrictive space while still providing the temperature, humidity, and static pressure control required […]

The Challenge: An international photonics manufacturer that builds photometric testing devices for imaging devices in aerospace, medical, optics, and a variety of other industries approached Air Innovations for help in designing an effective sphere spectrometer system to rate the lumens (luminous flux) in light emitting diode bulbs (an LED characterization system). Since the light output […]

This case study discusses how we met linear accelerator cooling requirements for a federal laboratory. The Challenge: Air Innovations was approached to design and build a linear accelerator cooling system for a silicon pixel sub-detector (PXL) inside the “STAR” detector, which is located inside the linear accelerator of a federal laboratory. Weighing 1,200 tons and as large […]

Water-Cooled Environmental Control for Research Lab A university research lab wanted to expand its infrastructure in the field of nanophotonics and approached Air Innovations for help. In response to their needs, we built a three-cubed, water-cooled air conditioner (each cube 26″ x 30″) with dry-steam humidification for an e-beam lithography tool. The tool will be used to support […]