About this session:
Laboratory buildings typically exhaust a great deal of air and bring substantial amounts of outside air to maintain safe indoor air quality. As such, the energy consumption for HVAC (heating and air conditioning) in labs is relatively high compared to traditional classroom and office buildings. This case study explains that in a particular case, the air handlers were originally outfitted with energy recovery wheels, a competing technology to heat pipes; however, the wheels never performed as expected. The building maintenance and energy efficiency staff at the University were looking for an alternative to the energy recovery wheel that could be retrofitted into the air handlers with minimal changes. They had considered heat pipe heat exchangers but ruled them out as they assumed they would only work in one season. An introduction to ACT’s pump-assisted air-to-air heat pipe heat exchanger (AAHX) convinced them that this technology was available for retrofit, would operate in both seasons with their challenging geometry, and was determined to meet the energy recovery needs, as well as promising the energy recovered will pay back the cost of the system within 2 years of installation.
Start Time:
3/21/2023 11:00:00 AM
End Time:
3/21/2023 12:00:00 PM
1. The difference between an energy wheel and a Heat Pipe Heat Exchanger.
2. Differences between a passive Heat Pipe Air-to-Air heat exchanger (AAHX) and a Pump-assisted heat pipe AAHX.
3. How heat pipe technology can benefit IAQ (indoor air quality) standards.
4. How to identify when a Pumped-Passive Heat Pipe AAHX is a good fit to provide two season efficient energy recovery.
Session ID:
T3.24
Room Number:
324
Audience:
Intermediate
CEU:
1 hour