HLR 100Z's low profile and quiet
operation make it ideal for installation in commercial
building plenums in schools, offices, warehouses, and
event spaces
WESTWOOD, Mass., June 11,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- enVerid Systems, a leading
provider of solutions to reduce the cost and carbon emissions of
heating, ventilating, and air conditioning buildings, announced
today the HLR 100Z, the newest addition to enVerid's family of HVAC
Load Reduction® (HLR®) modules, extending the
reach of enVerid's products to the individual building zone.
Similar in size and sound to Variable Refrigerant Flow (VRF)
terminal units, the HLR 100Z easily fits inside most plenums and
mechanical spaces serving one or more zones. The HLR 100Z works
with most commercial building HVAC systems and is ideally suited
for those served by VRF, active chilled beams, water source heat
pumps, and other de-coupled heating and cooling systems. The HLR
100Z may be used to reduce outside airflow, heating and cooling
load, electrical load, refrigerant charge, system weight, and cost
– resulting in savings on equipment and
energy use and lower carbon emissions.
![The HLR 100Z is the newest and most compact module in enVerid’s award-winning HLR product family. At the core of all HLR modules is enVerid’s innovative Sorbent Ventilation Technology (SVT). SVT filters harmful gaseous contaminants from indoor air, reducing the need for expensive, energy-intensive outside air ventilation to maintain indoor air quality. The HLR 100Z is the newest and most compact module in enVerid’s award-winning HLR product family. At the core of all HLR modules is enVerid’s innovative Sorbent Ventilation Technology (SVT). SVT filters harmful gaseous contaminants from indoor air, reducing the need for expensive, energy-intensive outside air ventilation to maintain indoor air quality.](https://mma.prnewswire.com/media/2434875/enVerid_Systems_The_HLR_100Z.jpg)
The HLR 100Z is ideal for installation in
commercial building plenums in schools, offices, warehouses, &
event spaces
When applied with ASHRAE's IAQ Procedure, the HLR 100Z can make
building electrification goals easier and more cost-effective to
achieve. Each HLR 100Z can offset 3-15 tons of peak cooling load
and reduce HVAC energy use by up to 40 percent. This in turn can
reduce HVAC system electrical requirements by up to 40 amps,
refrigerant charge by up to 10 pounds, and system cost by up to 30
percent. The HLR 100Z can also be used to earn up to nine LEED
points in the Indoor Environmental Quality, Energy &
Atmosphere, and Innovation credit areas using the U.S. Green
Building Council's LEED BD+C Minimum Indoor Air Quality
Performance: IAQP Compliance Path pilot credit.
"As the market has moved to smaller, decentralized
HVAC system designs, enVerid has responded with new products to
simplify and expand the applications that can be served with our
innovative Sorbent Ventilation Technology that is at the core of
all HLR modules," said Christian
Weeks, CEO of enVerid Systems. "In 2023 we launched the HLR
100C to expand from the applied market into the packaged rooftop
market. With the addition of the HLR 100Z for smaller zones, we now
have a cost-effective solution to implement Sorbent
Ventilation Technology and ASHRAE's IAQ Procedure across the entire
commercial HVAC market including the rapidly growing segment of the
market served by VRF, active chilled beams, water source heat
pumps, and other decentralized heating and cooling
systems."
enVerid's Sorbent Ventilation
Technology® (SVT®) filters harmful
gaseous contaminants from indoor air, reducing the need for
expensive, energy-intensive outside air ventilation to maintain
indoor air quality. Reducing outside air requirements using SVT and
ASHRAE's IAQ Procedure in Standard 62.1 supports building
decarbonization and electrification goals by reducing equipment
size to save on first costs and by lowering ventilation energy use
to improve efficiency. Reducing outside air ventilation also makes
buildings more resilient to polluted outside air including from
wildfires.
The initial market response to the HLR 100Z has been extremely
positive owing to its compact size and flexible integration
options. "enVerid continues to innovate, engineering its
HLR modules into smaller form factors to broaden the HVAC
applications served with SVT," said Alex
Goodwin, SVP Products & Engineering at enVerid.
"With a focus on smaller-scale spaces, the new HLR 100Z delivers
the benefits of SVT and the IAQ Procedure to
decentralized HVAC systems such as VRVs that are
increasingly in demand."
Recent updates to ASHRAE standards make design and
implementation of all HLR modules easy for the engineer and
cost-effective in today's pressing ventilation scenarios:
- Addendum aa to 62.1-2019 (Feb
2022) – made the IAQ Procedure more prescriptive by
defining contaminants of concern, design limits, and post occupancy
testing requirements.
- Addendum n to 62.1-2022 (Oct
2022) – raised the bar for compliant air cleaning
technologies like SVT by defining specific test procedures to
measure cleaning efficacy.
- Addendum c to 62.1-2022 (Oct
2023) – made applying the IAQ Procedure much easier for
engineers by providing an Excel calculator to calculate outside air
requirements using the IAQ Procedure.
A recent peer reviewed ASHRAE paper analyzed the impact on cost,
energy consumption, and carbon emissions of different ventilation
strategies for commercial and education spaces that comply with
Standard 62.1 (normal operations), Standard 241 ("infection risk
management mode" or IRMM), and ASHRAE's proposed Guideline 44
("wildfire smoke mode" or WFSM). The paper found that ventilation
strategies that use the IAQ Procedure require the least energy,
emit the least carbon, and are the only strategies that comply with
both infection risk management mode and wildfire smoke mode. Over
1,000 enVerid HLR modules have been field installed in full
compliance with the latest version of the IAQ Procedure.
The HLR 100Z is the most compact module in enVerid's
award-winning family of HLR products which also include the HLR
100C (integrated with rooftop curbs and inside AHR/RTU
cabinets), HLR 100M (for indoor
mechanical spaces), HLR 200M (for indoor mechanical spaces where
CO2 is a concern), and HLR 200R (for rooftop and
other outdoor applications). The HLR 100C was a 2024 nominee for
Consulting-Specifying Engineer's Product of the Year in the HVAC
category, the HLR 100M was named
Product of the Year in the HVAC category in 2021 by the readers of
Consulting-Specifying Engineer, and the HLR 200M received the AHR Expo Product of the Year
Award in 2019.
To learn more about the full suite of HLR products, visit the
enVerid product page.
About enVerid Systems, Inc.
enVerid Systems' award-winning Sorbent Ventilation
Technology® (SVT®) reduces the cost and
carbon emissions of heating, ventilating, and air conditioning
commercial buildings and increases their resiliency to polluted
outside air. SVT delivers these benefits by filtering harmful
contaminants from indoor air so that indoor air quality can be
maintained with less outside air ventilation, which is energy
intensive and expensive to condition and may be polluted. Reducing
outside air requirements enables building owners to install
smaller, less expensive HVAC systems that use less energy and to
operate existing HVAC systems more energy efficiently. SVT is
available in systems sold by leading HVAC manufacturers such as
Daikin and Oxygen8 and in enVerid's HVAC Load Reduction®
(HLR®) modules, which can be easily integrated with HVAC
systems from any manufacturer. Over 1,000 HVAC systems with SVT
have been installed into commercial, academic, and government
buildings globally over the past ten years in full compliance with
ASHRAE Standard 62.1 and the International Mechanical Code. SVT can
also be used to earn LEED and WELL points. For more information,
visit enverid.com.
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