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Combustion Research Corporation "A Leader In Low Intensity Infrared Heating Since 1965"

Combustion Research Corp has been in the LowIntensity infrared heating business for over 50 years.

In industrial and commercial facilities, the heating system you specify has a direct impact on indoor air quality. Seale...
08/19/2026

In industrial and commercial facilities, the heating system you specify has a direct impact on indoor air quality. Sealed combustion heaters isolate combustion from the occupied space by design, keeping air cleaner and eliminating a common source of maintenance failure.

Read the full article to learn what this approach delivers for your next project.

Sealed combustion heaters help protect indoor air quality by isolating combustion from occupied spaces. The design also generates meaningful energy savings.

Historic buildings weren't built for ductwork, and forced-air retrofits often prove it the hard way. Radiant tube heatin...
08/14/2026

Historic buildings weren't built for ductwork, and forced-air retrofits often prove it the hard way. Radiant tube heating warms the room directly, with minimal new penetrations and no trunk lines threading through original plaster or masonry.

Read more and learn what a non-invasive system looks like for your building.

Church heating equipment in landmark buildings should avoid several existing structures. This includes the ductwork and masonry that supports the building.

Installing outdoor infrared heating requires precise gas line calculation. Undersized piping starves burners, drops BTU ...
08/10/2026

Installing outdoor infrared heating requires precise gas line calculation. Undersized piping starves burners, drops BTU output, and causes dirty combustion.

Read the technical rules for sizing manifolds and lines safely.

Commercial patio heaters draw real BTU loads. This is the major reason why undersized gas lines cause pressure drops long before anyone notices the problem.

A sanctuary depends on silence, and a cycling forced-air system works against that every service. Radiant heat warms the...
08/05/2026

A sanctuary depends on silence, and a cycling forced-air system works against that every service. Radiant heat warms the congregation directly instead of fighting high ceilings and stratified air.

Read the full article and see why more houses of worship are making the switch.

Church heating in a sanctuary has to compete with the silence that a religious service depends on. A noisy forced-air system works against that every week.

Combustible dust incidents have killed and injured hundreds of workers in facilities handling materials as ordinary as g...
07/31/2026

Combustible dust incidents have killed and injured hundreds of workers in facilities handling materials as ordinary as grain and feed.

In our latest article, learn how filter-free, sealed-combustion heaters remove a common ignition risk from barns and ag buildings without adding a maintenance burden.

Barn heaters for animals have to survive feed dust, bedding particulate, and manure fines. Here's how to solve this without becoming a source of combustion.

A few degrees of swing can shift mushroom yield, and forced-air heat creates exactly the air movement growers spend the ...
07/27/2026

A few degrees of swing can shift mushroom yield, and forced-air heat creates exactly the air movement growers spend the rest of their operation controlling. Surface-heating infrared, paired with available USDA efficiency grants, changes that math.

Read more to learn how the right surface heating equipment can increase your yield.

A mushroom heater maintains tight temperature bands in a humid, enclosed space. The challenge is to maintain the airflow that growers need for good yields.

Radiator sizing charts are calibrated for air heating. When engineers apply them to a commercial infrared installation, ...
07/20/2026

Radiator sizing charts are calibrated for air heating. When engineers apply them to a commercial infrared installation, the system ends up over-specified, under-specified, or both. CRC infrared systems are sized using heat loss calculations that account for floor mass, ceiling height, and door frequency.

Read more to find out in our latest article.

Commercial infrared BTU sizing is not a radiator sizing chart exercise. It requires heat loss calculations specific to infrared's delivery mechanism.

Multi-car garages fail at heating for three reasons: ceiling height, door frequency, and air infiltration. Radiant infra...
07/15/2026

Multi-car garages fail at heating for three reasons: ceiling height, door frequency, and air infiltration. Radiant infrared addresses all of them by heating the slab and occupants directly instead of conditioning air that escapes before it reaches the floor. See how CRC systems fit residential and commercial garage configurations.

Find out what the certification gap means for your crew in our latest article.

Multi-car garages lose heat through ceiling height, door frequency, and poor seals. Radiant infrared heaters for garages address all three complications.

Specifying a tube heater for shop use comes down to one ratio most buyers overlook: BTU input relative to tube length. W...
07/10/2026

Specifying a tube heater for shop use comes down to one ratio most buyers overlook: BTU input relative to tube length. When that ratio is off, efficiency suffers regardless of brand or fuel type. CRC builds every system around an optimum ratio from the start.

Get the full breakdown on our website.

When using a tube heater for shop spaces, match BTU input to tube length. Specify a system built for shop environments and always size for ceiling height.

A propane radiant system sized with natural gas tables will starve downstream burners. The specific gravity difference b...
07/06/2026

A propane radiant system sized with natural gas tables will starve downstream burners. The specific gravity difference between the two fuels changes how gas flows through the pipe at the same pressure, and standard tables do not account for it. Getting multi-burner vacuum radiant systems right starts with the right inputs.

See how the two stack up by checking the full article on our website.

Natural gas tables will undersize a propane radiant system. A propane pipe sizing calculator uses specific gravity, manifold loads, and vaporization rates.

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