At Ventilation Pros, we focus on energy efficient strategies for air movement. One of the original HRV and ERV designers was Jack Neuzil. Jack was a born in Eastern Iowa and raised near Solon, IA. From a family of farmers, Jack was always a curious mind. He was a teacher, farmer, and inventor. While teaching at Kirkwood Community College in Iowa City, IA, Jack was encouraged (via government funding) to develop an ERV (Energy Recovering Ventilator) for new home construction. Jack was successful in obtaining a patent on this ERV design, and today is commonly referred to as Geo-Thermal.
Next Neuzil set his sights on the Ag Industry, specifically Hog Confinements. Livestock, such as hogs, create a great deal of heat as well as toxic gas! Moving this gas out of the confinement while recovering that heat seemed like a great idea. This is when Jack got to work developing a “nested” HRV, or Heat Recovering Ventilator, design. Admittedly Jack is not a salesman. He’s an inventor. His plan was to simply sell the design concept to local farmers who could then build their own systems. Some people did create their own systems but this was not a simple task. Eventually, with the help of Mike Stibal, Jack created the NeuAir Heat Exchanger for commercial sale. Mike was a salesman and found that the Welding and Fabrication Industry was a great application for this new technology. Simple and effective, the NeuAir Heat Exchanger began to be installed in welding and fabrication shops all over the midwest.
NeuAir became Keep The Heat in 2005 with Mike and his son Kevin taking over the sales and manufacturing of the Air to Air Heat Exchanger, still known today as Keep The Heat. As we head into the colder months of fall and winter, now is the time we start to see the doors shut and the Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) start to get worse. Keep the Heat will help keep the IAQ at an acceptable level and the heating bills down.
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