HEAT RECOVERY VENTILATION

Heat Recovery Ventilation

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Heat Recovery Ventilation

Introduction

The paper discusses the working of a heat recovery ventilator in the process of ventilation. The details include the background of the study, benefits of the heat recovery ventilator (HRV) and effects on sustainability of a healthy environment. Furthermore, the case study reflecting the need and use of a heat recovery ventilator to enhance a sustainable environment at workplace and maintain indoor air quality requirements.

The purpose is to identify the way a heat recovery ventilator works and the way it helps maintain a healthy environment. Generally speaking, Heat recovery ventilator units can remove the dust from a workshop. They can also be used to control the indoor relative humidity, a blessing for those of us who suffer from arthritis, bursitis or rheumatism. However, we will discuss the heat recovery ventilation in detail within our following content.

Background

While homes with energy efficiency work well to keep your indoor air hot or cold, but also contain stale air and reticulated air; a ventilation system solves the problem of stale air by bringing fresh air into the houses of tight construction without wasting valuable energy. The Heat Recovery Ventilators recover heat energy during the heating season. Each home contains a certain amount of undesirable gases from different sources, building materials, the ground beneath it, your heating and air conditioning, and even people who exhale carbon dioxide. The easiest way to let in fresh air at home, of course, is by opening a window. The problem is that the process will trap warm air or cold. A ventilator allows your home to "breathe" to bring fresh air and healthy in a controlled manner. Before removing stale air from your home, it also recovers enough energy to heat and cool through the heat exchanger. Then transfer that heat or cold directly to the outside air pulled inward. Best of all is that the fan does this without ever mixing the two drafts. Incoming air is always fresh. And you keep the heating and cooling efficiency of your system.

HRV installed in an R-2000 can renew all the air in the house in three hours. Most Heat Recovery Ventilators are also equipped with moisture sensors that automatically increase the ventilation rate required, for example when taking a shower. Stale air is normally extracted from the kitchen and bathrooms, where moisture and odours are largely.

Heat Recovery Ventilation Units

If you want to enjoy the comfort of a warm home AND fresh, clean air, a heat recovery ventilation (HRV) unit may be just what you're looking for! HRV units exchange stale air for fresh air (ventilation), and recover as much warm air as possible so that your furnace is not heating exceptionally cold air in the winter (heat recovery). The heat recovery ventilation unit works with the following process:

One set of ducts collects stale, moist air from the kitchen, laundry, and bathroom, passes it through the HRV unit and then exhausts it to the outside.

A second set of ducts draws in fresh, clean air ...