Higher Education

Sorbent Ventilation Technology^®

For colleges and universities looking to achieve sustainability goals, improve learning outcomes, and save money, enVerid’s award-winning Sorbent Ventilation Technology reduces the energy and carbon intensity of HVAC systems, improves indoor air quality, and lowers the cost of new HVAC equipment. Sorbent Ventilation Technology delivers these benefits by filtering harmful gaseous 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.

enVerid’s HVAC Load Reduction^® (HLR^®) modules, which use Sorbent Ventilation Technology to clean indoor air, are ideally suited for buildings installing new HVAC equipment or seeking to make existing HVAC systems more efficient. Multiple types of HLR modules exist for simple integration with all types of HVAC systems in both new and existing buildings. When combined with ASHRAE’s performance-based Indoor Air Quality Procedure (IAQP) ventilation design method, the use of HLR modules is fully compliant with ASHRAE standards and the International Mechanical Code.

By permanently reducing load on HVAC systems, HLR modules lower the energy and carbon intensity of HVAC systems, which helps achieve sustainability goals while saving money and extending equipment life. The reduction of required outside air also decreases the cost of installing new HVAC equipment and electrifying buildings by allowing for HVAC system downsizing.

The use of Sorbent Ventilation Technology is also a great way to earn up to 9 LEED points and up to 2 preconditions, 3 optimization points, and 3 points under an Alternative Adherence Path in the WELL Air concept category.

Sorbent Ventilation Technology improves indoor air quality by removing carbon dioxide (CO₂) and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) generated by building materials, furniture, and classroom and cleaning supplies from indoor air, and by reducing the intake of particulate matter and ozone from outside air polluted by exhaust from highways and airports, smoke from industrial parks and wildfires, and pollen.

Compared to other energy saving sustainability initiatives that increase project first costs and have long payback periods, Sorbent Ventilation Technology allow for the use of ASHRAE’s IAQP to deliver both first cost savings from downsizing new HVAC equipment and ongoing energy savings by permanently reducing load on HVAC systems.