Gerbig offers new cleanroom energy analysis service
Companies keen to ‘go green’ when it comes to improving cleanroom energy efficiency can benefit from a new service from design specialist Gerbig Engineering.
The privately owned company based in Burnsville, Minnesota sees many companies attempt to reduce cleanroom energy consumption by performing activities that degrade the cleanroom.
Their new service aims to analyse energy consumption rates in cleanrooms, compare them with best design practices and detail a plan on how to reduce energy consumption. The aim of which is to provide the client with a reasonable goal for energy reduction and a plan to achieve that goal.
"Energy costs are a huge issue and it is only going to become bigger," said company president Fred Gerbig. "We come across clean rooms that are consuming 4-10 times more energy than what they should consume. Companies are spending thousands of dollars per month more than they need to for a high quality clean room system.
"While mechanical equipment has become more energy efficient over the years, poor cleanroom system design is by far and away the biggest cause of excess energy consumption. We see systems that are wasting energy by cooling ambient air to remove moisture, and then heating it back up again. There are much more effective ways to achieve this. Another common problem we see is poor ducting which results in much more pressure in the system than needed."