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Jerry Shiner
Microclimate environmental
control systems can provide safe and accurate control
of humidity, temperature and pollution in museum display
cases and storage environments.
- Environmental Control Units can provide humidity
tempered air at flows varying for practically any
size or design of showcase or enclosure.
- Microclimate units may be located almost anywhere,
from beneath a small display case to as far away as
500 feet/175 meters.
- Stable humidity levels can be maintained indefinitely,
even as temperatures vary, with no media to change.
- Effective Pollution Control techniques can
be easily installed in all units.
- Substantial Energy Savings can be found simply
by controlling only the microenvironment surrounding
sensitive artefacts in large rooms.
 What
is a microclimate?
A microclimate is the environment immediately surrounding
an artefact. A microclimate can be created and controlled
in a sealed showcase, storage cabinet or archive room.
What
happened to Microclimate Technologies International?
Keepsafe Microclimate Systems
is pleased to answer queries about Microclimate Technologies
International Inc. or their machinery.
Why create a microclimate?
Creating and maintaining a microclimate in a showcase
or storage cabinet is easier, more accurate, and far more
cost-effective than modifying the environment in an entire
building, gallery, or room.
 Some
Supportive Research:
"… over half the costs
of energy for humidification and dehumidification is saved
by changing relative humidity setpoints … The absolute
value of calculated savings was between 130,000 and
184,000 kWh per year." from Energy
Use Impacts of Te Papa Relative Humidity Setpoint
by Rob Bishop, Energy Solutions, Wellington, NZ
"While heating, ventilating, and air
conditioning (HVAC) standards and the tolerances of buildings
housing collections may continue to dictate environmental
standards as a whole, the display case becomes the
area within which the greatest good or harm to objects
is realized."
from Pollutants in the Museum Environment by Pamela
Hatchfield, Museum of Fine Arts of Boston
"Providing a microclimate in a well-sealed case is
a low-cost alternative to controlling the entire exhibit
space." from Exhibition Conservation Guidelines
by Toby Raphael and Nancy Davis , National Parks Service,
Harpers Ferry, VA
"... it is more cost and energy efficient to
provide microclimates for the artifacts themselves rather
than for the building, in whole or in part."
from In Search of the Black Box, a report on the
proceedings of a seminal Workshop on Microclimates held
at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto in 1978.
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