HVAC - HEATING, VENTILATION AND AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEM
comfort you can count on
EMEX CO. is a high standard company specializing in heating, cooling and ventilating. Time for a new furnace, boiler or air conditioner? Whatever your indoor comfort needs are, either residential or commercial, we have state of the art equipment with qualified technicians to meet those needs. If your cooling system is more than 10 years old, a complete system can be up to 56% more energy efficient.

FORCED-AIR HEATING SYSTEM
More than 70 percent of America's homes are heated by forced-air heating. With this type of system, room air is pulled into a furnace through large return-air ducts. The furnace warms the air and then sends it back to rooms throughout the house through a different set of ducts and registers.
Most forced-air furnaces burn natural gas, though some use oil, propane or electricity. Forced-air heating systems are very popular, but if not professionally installed they can be noisy and inefficient.

 HOT-WATER HEATING SYSTEM (HYDRONIC)
These systems employ a boiler to heat water, which circulates through pipes or tubes to radiators or registers that radiate heat into the rooms.
Benefits of hydronic system
Health - with hydronics, there is no recirculation of air from the basement or from other rooms, blowing dust, odors, germs or spores throughout the house. Hydronic heat is a sealed system; it neither adds nor subtracts moisture in the house, so normal patterns of cooking and washing usually can maintain proper humidity levels without additional equipment.
Reliability - hydronic systems are reliable from the day they're installed and offer trouble-free service for decades. The basic equipment boiler, baseboard units, and tubing is sturdy and reliable.
Comfort - Conventional hydronic systems bring warmth to a room through the unnoticed flow of warmed air through the room from an enclosed heating surface inside baseboard units. Zoned heat provides the ultimate in comfort the temperature you want, when you want it, in each part of the house.

 

GLOSSARY OF TERMS

BTU - British Thermal Unit. In scientific terms, it represents the amount of energy required to raise one pound of water one degree Fahrenheit. One BTU is the equivalent of the heat given off by a single wooden kitchen match. For your home, it represents the measure of heat given off when fuel is burned for heating or the measure of heat extracted from your home for cooling.

Compressor - The heart of an air conditioning or heat pump system. It is part of the outdoor unit that pumps refrigerant. The compressor maintains adequate pressure to cause refrigerant to flow in sufficient quantities in order to meet the cooling requirements of the system.

HSPF - Heating Seasonal Performance Factor. Refers to the efficiency of the heating mode of heat pumps over an entire heating season. The higher the number, the more efficient the unit.

SEER - Seasonal Energy Efficiency Ratio, a rating that measures the cooling efficiency of a heat pump or air conditioner. The higher the number, the more efficient the unit.

Split System - Refers to a comfort system configuration consisting of components in two locations. Common examples include an outside unit, such as an air conditioner, and an indoor unit, such as a furnace and coil.

Thermostat - A temperature control device, typically found on a wall inside the home. It consists of a series of sensors and relays that monitor and control the functions of a heating and cooling system. American Standard's programmable thermostats allow you to program different levels of comfort for different times of the day.

Ton - A unit of measurement used for determining cooling capacity. One ton is the equivalent of 12,000 BTUs per hour.