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In HVAC the kW load demand required for fresh air purification is quickly outgrowing the energy required due to building thermal transmission. As building materials have improved and building design developed our buildings have drastically reduced thermal losses, but our acute awareness and regulatory requirements for fresh air (air changes per hour) has increased.
While in the past fresh air treatment might have only required 20% of the total demand, today this can reach in excess of 70%. Clearly saving energy for fresh air treatment must be applied. As we introduce fresh air we must expel stale air, this exhaust air is poor in terms of quality but rich in terms of energy as it has already been heated or cooled to room temperature. Recovering the energy from this exhaust air in the target.
Many other companies have also understood this requirement and Air Handling Units (AHUs) are frequently equipped with Enthalpy Wheels, Plate AIR to AIR heat changes or similar. These all share 1 common design flaw, they recover energy between fresh air and exhaust air directly. This method works well in high or low ambient temperature because the temperature between the two are high but extreme weather only occurs 1-3% of the time! What about the other 97%.
---Example of an Enthalpy Wheel--- ---Typical annual ambient mapping---
Thermodynamic Energy Recovery (THOR) is different… but first a small amount of technical talk is required.
Cooling in packaged air conditioning systems is done via the refrigeration cycle where a compressor compressors gas and condenses the gas to liquid (hot side-Typical 50oC) and then expands the same gas (cold side-Typical 7oC). The compressor uses the most energy in this process and more than the ventilation fans.
THOR uses the exhaust air over the refrigeration condenser (in cooling mode) and reduces the hot side from the Typical 50oC to approximately 35oC. In doing this the compressor uses less power. This effect is irrespective of ambient temperature and as such THOR has high efficiency in more climatic conditions.
OA=Outside Air, SA=Supply Air, EX=Exhaust Air, RA=Return Air
There are a few other saving factors but this gets too in depth for today’s news.
Please read our detailed document for more information.
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