Creating new and ultra-efficient renewable energy technologies is not just about harnessing the sun or wind and feeding it into our homes and office buildings. Making the most of what is already there also helps reduce our collective impact on the environment, and that includes the amount of heat we lose to the environment on a daily basis.
HEAT RECOVERY
WHAT IT IS?
Heat recovery systems make sure that the heat we produce on a daily basis is not wasted. This can include the warmth created by an office environment, the heat from ground floor heating that otherwise go to waste.
Not only that, heat recovery can work to draw warmth from places you may not even have thought of like the air outside or the ground in your garden. It allows us to be more efficient and can help reduce the amount we pay for our energy bills.
HOW IT WORKS?
Heat recovery systems work by drawing on that potentially valuable warm air or water in a property and getting it to work just a little bit harder for us. We do this by drawing wasted warm air from areas i.e. the kitchen and running that air into a heat exchanger where it transfers that heat to fresh air drawn in from outdoors. This heated fresh air is then blown into i.e. bedroom. Creating warm and filtered fresh air thought the property.
When something hot passes next to something cold, the heat travels towards the region of lower temperature in what is called a heat exchange. Being green is not just about making use of renewable technologies, it’s also concerned with making the most of what we produce. It’s about getting that warmth we create almost constantly and recycling it back into our buildings.
