Whois & Analysis for captiveaire.com

CaptiveAire Systems is the largest privately held manufacturer of commercial kitchen ventilation systems in the U.S. The company, founded by Robert L.

Luddy in 1976, is headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Since its inception, the company has expanded from fire suppression to a wide array of products including exhaust, pollution control, fire suppression and prevention, and utility distribution.

Kitchen ventilation is the branch of ventilation that specialises in the treatment of air from kitchens.

Kitchen ventilation presents the problems of grease, smoke and odours not usually found in other ventilation systems.

Indoor air quality (IAQ) is a term which refers to the air quality within and around buildings and structures, especially as it relates to the health and comfort of building occupants.

Ducts are conduits or passages used in heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) to deliver and remove air.

The needed airflows include, for example, supply air, return air, and exhaust air.Ducts commonly also deliver ventilation air as part of the supply air.

As such, air ducts are one method of ensuring acceptable indoor air quality as well as thermal comfort.

Heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) is the technology of indoor and vehicular environmental comfort.

Its goal is to provide thermal comfort and acceptable indoor air quality.

HVAC system design is a subdiscipline of mechanical engineering, based on the principles of thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and heat transfer.

Refrigeration is sometimes added to the field's abbreviation as HVAC&R or HVACR, or ventilating is dropped as in HACR (such as the designation of HACR-rated circuit breakers).