Heat Recovery
In Summer helps keep inside air as you want it, cool. In Winter helps keep inside air as you want it, warm. All year round, energy and money savings.
Heat recovery keeps heat energy generated inside, inside. Is a fantastic energy saving feature and is useful from large commercial situations to more domestic situations like your home.
Mechanical ventilation with heat recovery captures heat from the outgoing exhaust air and use it to passively heat up incoming fresh air. The recovery of this heat energy (or in the case of summer bypass cooling (link), expelling) can be applied to heating, cooling or domestic hot water in your household system.
The most common method of heat recovery is via a cross flow heat exchanger. A cross flow heat exchanger uses an air handling unit (AHU) to exchange heat between incoming and outgoing flows of air. Each airstream is contained and separated by a thin membrane of exchange most often made of aluminium.
Heat recovery ensures the indoor comfort of the dwelling — temperature and in the case of ERV humidity — is maintained year-round. An experience and energy saving which many dwellings in Australia might be be unfamiliar with.
Heat recovery is about quality control of the climate within your home, maximising your energy efficiency and savings on energy. Maintaining a constant and even climate inside translates to less heating or air conditioning use. This is air control — fresh and filtered, delivered to your living areas, where you want — without relying on potluck window exchange, which really just let heat energy — as money — drift out into the wild blue yonder.