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Trane Air-to-Air Energy Recovery En29-05 PDF
Trane Air-to-Air Energy Recovery En29-05 PDF
A wheel differs little from a supply fan, ■ at low temperature, usually to local
however. If the wheel “breaks” due to a
mixed-air units; or
failed bearing, belt, or motor, the faulty
component must be fixed to assure ■ at space-neutral temperature,
continued operation of the system. As
usually to a mixing plenum or
wheels become more widely used and
accepted, reductions in heating-plant directly to each space.
capacity should become more common. ■
© 2000 American Standard Inc. All rights reserved Volume 29, No. 5 ■
Mixed-air systems supply a blend of Table 1. Applications for Air-to-Air Energy Recovery
outdoor air and recirculated return air to Ventilation System Energy-Recovery Technology
each space. The central air handler
Supply-Air Outdoor-Air
delivers the supply air either: Source Temperature Supply-Air Tempering Preconditioning
Dedicated Cold Not applicable ■ Sensible or total
■ at modulated temperature and outdoor air
Neutral ■ Sensible ■ Sensible or total
constant volume, usually to a single (parallel or series)
space; or Mixed air Modulated ■ Sensible ■ Sensible or total
(outdoor air plus (constant volume) (parallel or series)
■ at low temperature and varying recirculated return air)
Cold Not applicable ■ Sensible or total
volume, usually to multiple spaces. (variable volume)
Our investigations show that when $11,300 can be used to subsidize the
preconditioning outdoor air, a total- cost of the wheel.
energy wheel provides the greatest recovers 243,000 Btu/h from the
favorable impact on first cost— and Although the total-energy wheel exhaust air. Wheel operation can
usually the best payback potential. Let’s removes both sensible and latent reduce the design capacity of the
look more closely at the operation of energy from the exhaust air, only the heating plant as well as its first cost.
systems that use total-energy recovery sensible portion can be used to reduce Assuming an incremental cost of
to precondition outdoor air. heating-plant capacity during the $20 per 1,000 Btu/h, the resulting
heating season. Without the bathroom heating-plant savings approximate
exhaust, the total-energy wheel (still $4,900.
with an effectiveness of 82 percent)
Preconditioning for
Dedicated Outdoor Air
A system that includes a dedicated
Figure 3. Control Modes for Preconditioned Outdoor Air and Neutral Supply Air
outdoor-air unit (Figure 3) can benefit
from preconditioning with total-energy
recovery, if properly applied and example school in
controlled. This holds true whether the Jacksonville, Florida
dedicated air handler delivers the
preconditioned outdoor air to other
mixed-air units or directly to the
occupied spaces. full recovery,
RA partial cooling,
no recovery, h
partial tempering
total- (shown) partial cooling, RA
or sensible-energy partial tempering SA
SA DP
recovery
partial no recovery,
full recovery, recovery partial cooling
supplemental heating, only partial recovery,
supplemental preheat full recovery, partial cooling
supplemental heating
SAT
RAT
maintain the target supply-air dry bulb. 4 Partial recovery only OA airflow = minimum set point 62 hr (2%) 496 hr (19%)
OA DB > critical temperature [62 hr (2%)] [853 hr (32%)]
5 Full recovery, OA DB < critical temperature 0 hr (0%) 481 hr (18%)
Decreased hours at Region 6
supplemental heating [124 hr (5%)]
conditions mean decreased hours of
6 Full recovery, OA DB ≤ frost threshold 0 hr (0%) 44 hr (<2%)
heating-plant operation. supplemental heating,
supplemental preheat
a OA = outdoor air, RA = return air, SA = supply air, DB = dry bulb, DP = dew point
b Annual operation is based on 10,000 cfm of outdoor air and 7,000 cfm of exhaust air. Values enclosed in brackets []
represent annual operation based on 9,500 cfm of exhaust air (i.e., the addition of the bathroom exhaust).
SAT
than enthalpy not only misses many full recovery, supplemental heating, partial cooling
supplemental preheat
hours of energy recovery, but also no recovery,
RA
yields many hours of wheel operation full recovery, partial no recovery, economizer plus h
that add to the cooling-plant load. supplemental heating recovery only economizer only partial cooling
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