Air Compressor Heat Recovery Unit Using Gas To Heat Water

Air compressors produce a large amount of waste heat during operation, which usually exists in the form of high temperature gas or thermal oil. The role of the heat recovery device is to recycle this waste heat to improve the efficiency of energy use and reduce energy consumption and operating costs.

Common methods of heat recovery include the use of heat exchangers to transfer waste heat to a medium that needs to be heated, such as air, water or oil. In this way, heat that would otherwise be wasted can be efficiently utilised for preheating combustion air, heating water or other processes.

Water is heated using high temperature gas recovered from an air compressor. This approach can provide thermal energy for a variety of applications that require hot water, such as cleaning and heating processes in industrial production, or heating and domestic hot water supply for buildings.

The principle of operation is generally to allow the high temperature gas to pass through one side of the heat exchanger while the water flows on the other side. During the heat exchange process, the heat of the gas is transferred to the water, raising the temperature of the water, thus realising the purpose of converting the heat energy of the gas into the heat energy of the hot water.

Advantages

Energy saving and consumption reduction: Recycling the waste heat generated by the air compressor reduces the need for traditional energy sources and lowers energy consumption and energy costs.

Improvement of energy utilisation efficiency: Converting wasted heat energy into useful heat energy improves the energy utilisation efficiency of the whole system, in line with the requirements of sustainable development.

Reduced environmental impact: Reduces dependence on traditional energy sources, which correspondingly reduces greenhouse gas emissions and other pollutant emissions resulting from energy production and consumption, and has a positive significance for environmental protection.

Stable hot water supply: It can provide stable hot water supply according to the actual demand, meet the hot water demand in industrial production or life, and improve the production efficiency and quality of life.

Application Fields

Industrial field: such as chemical, pharmaceutical, food processing and other industries, can be used for heating process water, cleaning water, steam generation, etc., to reduce production costs.

Commercial field: such as hotels, hospitals, schools and other places, can be used to supply domestic hot water, heating, etc., to improve energy efficiency and reduce operating costs.

Other fields: it can also be applied to some special occasions that need hot water or thermal energy, such as the heating of greenhouse greenhouses, the heating of swimming pool water and so on.