The challenge came from the expressed need to balance and control the individual hoods on each exhaust system depending on cooking. Impossible? Enter the Halton M.A.R.V.E.L. system. This unique Demand Control Ventilation system with Automated Balancing Dampers (ABD’s) allows each Capture Jet hood to be individually controlled and the gross exhaust on the system to be reduced proportionately. Halton quickly got to work laying out 24 hoods in 4 different cooking labs on the M.A.R.V.E.L. platform. The system was commissioned through the web linker incorporated in M.A.R.V.E.L. that allows for the Capture Jet hood’s sensors to be “seen” via the web.

One of the students was asked during a class if he was comfortable in the lab and if the hoods were working his exact words were” it is great, it just sucks the smoke right up and it disappears!” Although not the most qualified HVAC person ever interviewed, the point got across, the hoods and M.A.R.V.E.L. systems were a success!