Baltimore Aircoil Company (BAC), one of the world's leading manufacturers of evaporative cooling towers, fluid coolers, and ice thermal energy storage systems, launched the BAC Expo Mobile Experience — a travelling exhibit that brings BAC's commercial cooling technology demonstrations directly to engineers, contractors, and building owners across North America, according to HVAC Insider coverage.
The BAC Expo Mobile concept — taking a physical technology demonstration on the road rather than requiring customers to travel to a showroom or manufacturer facility — is a response to the reality that commercial HVAC specification decisions are made by engineers and facility managers who have competing demands on their time. Getting demonstration equipment in front of decision-makers in their own markets rather than requiring them to visit Charlotte or another manufacturer hub is a genuine sales model innovation.
Who Is Baltimore Aircoil Company?
Baltimore Aircoil Company is an Jessup, Maryland-based manufacturer of evaporative cooling towers, fluid coolers, evaporative condensers, and ice thermal energy storage systems. Founded in 1938, BAC is one of the most established and respected manufacturers in the commercial heat rejection and cooling tower market — products that are critical infrastructure for large commercial HVAC systems, industrial processes, and data centres.
In the current data centre boom context, BAC's products are directly relevant to the same hyperscaler capital expenditure wave that is driving Trane's record backlog and Carrier's 500 percent data centre order growth. Cooling towers and fluid coolers reject the heat that data centre HVAC systems extract from the building — they are the final step in the heat rejection chain from server to atmosphere. At the scale of hyperscale data centre campuses, this is multi-million-dollar cooling tower infrastructure that BAC is positioned to supply.
Baltimore Aircoil Company's BAC Expo Mobile Experience travels to engineers, contractors, and building owners across North America to demonstrate evaporative cooling tower, fluid cooler, and ice thermal energy storage systems — a travelling demonstration model that brings commercial heat rejection technology directly to the specifiers and buyers making data centre and commercial HVAC infrastructure decisions.
What the BAC Expo Mobile Demonstrates
The specific technologies BAC is demonstrating in the mobile experience include:
• Cooling towers: BAC's evaporative cooling towers are specified in large commercial HVAC chilled water systems — hospitals, universities, data centres, and major commercial buildings. The demonstration allows engineers to evaluate tower design, efficiency characteristics, and maintenance requirements in a tangible way that specification sheets cannot replicate.
• Fluid coolers: Dry and hybrid fluid coolers that provide heat rejection with reduced or eliminated water consumption — directly relevant to the zero-water data centre cooling discussion and to markets with water availability constraints.
• Ice thermal energy storage: BAC manufactures ice thermal storage systems that allow buildings to shift cooling energy consumption to off-peak utility rate periods — producing ice at night when electricity is cheap and using it to meet daytime cooling loads. This technology reduces peak demand charges and can significantly lower annual energy costs for large commercial buildings.
The mobile demonstration format is particularly valuable for ice thermal storage — a technology that requires more explanation and visualisation than standard cooling equipment to achieve specification uptake, because most engineers have limited direct experience with thermal storage systems.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Baltimore Aircoil Company?
Baltimore Aircoil Company (BAC) is a Jessup, Maryland-based manufacturer of evaporative cooling towers, fluid coolers, evaporative condensers, and ice thermal energy storage systems, founded in 1938. BAC's products provide heat rejection infrastructure for commercial HVAC systems, industrial processes, and data centres across North America.
What is the BAC Expo Mobile Experience?
The BAC Expo Mobile Experience is a travelling exhibit that brings BAC's cooling tower and thermal energy storage technology demonstrations directly to engineers, contractors, and building owners across North America — allowing decision-makers to evaluate commercial heat rejection technology in their own markets rather than travelling to manufacturer facilities.
