HVAC

Free Hot Water When You're Cooling!

Reuse waste heat. Many opportunities exist to reuse thermal energy within a building. For instance, rejected waste heat from air conditioning or refrigeration equipment can often be used to serve building needs. To capture waste heat, hot gas desuperheaters, double-bundle condensers and auxiliary condensers can be used on just about every type of air conditioning and refrigeration equipment. Whether the recovery and reuse of waste equipment is practical, however, depends on the availability of and simultaneous need for that energy. The potential energy savings and cost benefits depend on how many hours-per-year of excess energy are available and also on whether that heat can be used for purposes that would otherwise require purchased energy.