Guidance and advice you can trust
Condair is passionate about promoting best practise in humidity control and evaporative cooling. On this page you will find a selection of informative articles providing expert advice on issues such as how to increase productivity in industrial manufacturing, how to select the correct humidifier for a certain application and how to install it or service it.
Our team contains some of the foremost humidification experts in the world. If you have a problem with dry air, think that humidity could be affecting your production processes or just a question about a humidifier, please contact us. We can help you achieve your environmental control objectives.
Product and application advice
The specification of humidification
Dave Bull details the important questions to consider when specifying humidifiers.
Direct and indirect evaporative cooling strategies
Dave Marshall-George looks at the different evaporative cooling strategies for AHUs.
Dehumidifier specification - how to size and select a dehumidifier
The key things to consider when specifying dehumidifiers or designing a dehumidification project.
The energy of humidification
Dave Marshall-George explains how much energy commercial humidifiers need and what are the options for those buildings that need to minimise energy use.
Desiccant vs condensing dehumidifiers
Dave Marshall-George, Sales Director at Condair, compares dehumidifier technologies and gives an overview on best practise dehumidifier selection.
A cool recovery with humidifiers
Recovering thermal energy for cooling in the summer offers huge potential. This article explains how it works and why you should be doing it.
An overview of hybrid cooling systems
Core principles of hybrid cooling, including components, key benefits and design considerations.
Evaporative cooling
Tim Scott describes how cold water humidifiers are used to provide low energy, low cost cooling.
Humidifiers de-mystified for the AC contractor
David Gates gives an overview of the main options used by the AC contractor.
Dehumidification – a hot topic
Dave Marshall-George explains the heat management aspects of a dehumidifier project.
The economy of gas
David Marshall-George examines the benefits of using gas-fired humidifiers.
Reducing the cost of humidification
David Marshall-George discusses how to reduce the cost of humidification.
Electrode vs resistive steam humidifiers
Dave Marshall-George compares electrode & resistive humidifiers.
Health-related humidity advice
Return to work: how to manage a healthy humidity
Dave Marshall-George looks at how businesses can adhere to guidance on indoor humidity levels in a post lockdown, COVID world.
Consider your humidity when increasing your ventilation
Tony Fleming explains how increasing ventilation in heated buildings without humidifying may be protecting us in one way but harming us in another.
Making buildings healthier
Dave Marshall-George examines the potential for improving public health through humidification and other HVAC strategies.
Indoor humidity
David Marshall-George examines the importance of humidity control in our lives for health, productivity and success.
Humidity and healthcare
Dave Marshall-George examines the implications for hospitals of a recently published study on humidity and infleunza infection
Humidification for health – is it worth the energy?
Tim Scott weighs the benefits to health of humidity control vs the energy required to maintain it.
Service-related advice and guidance
Installing humidifiers - a contractor's guide
Neal Hiscock, Application Manager at Condair plc, looks at the important issues contractors ought to consider when installing a humidification system.
Importance of expert commissioning
Tony Tullett, Service Manager at Condair plc, explain the importance of using specialists when undertaking final commissioning of a humidifier.
Advice on improving productivity in manufacturing and commerce
Fighting static with humidity
Preventing ice & mist with dehumidifiers
Control humidity and improve productivity in digital printing
Improving food productivity with humidity
Humidity and healthcare
Making buildings healthier
Consider your humidity when increasing your ventilation
Return to work: how to manage a healthy humidity
Direct and indirect evaporative cooling strategies
