Energy Recovery
The Kathabar Twin-Cel Energy Enthalpy System is used for reclaiming air into air energy in air-conditioning and ventilation systems.
How the Twin-Cel System operates
Kathabar Twin-Cel systems exchange temperature and humidity between building outside and exhaust airstreams by using an energy transfer solution, Kalsorb. The solution passes through supply and exhaust packed towers where it contacts the air stream and results in the transfer of moisture and heat.
The difference in energy content between the exhaust air and the outside air is key to the Twin-Cel energy recovery process. In summer, the moist, warm, outside air is cooled and dehumidified by the relatively cool and dry building exhaust. In winter, the cold, dry, outside air is heated and humidified by the relatively warm and moist building exhaust. The potential recoverable energy from the exhaust air is basic to the Twin-Cel energy recovery process.
Applications
The operating characteristics of Kathabar energy recovery systems make them appropriate for a wide range of applications, such as:
• Hospitals and health care facilities - critical areas, patient rooms, labs, kitchens, nursing homes.
• Laboratories - research, animal, educational, toxicology.
• Pharmaceutical processing plants - production, research, general ventilation.
• Food processing plants - production, central kitchens, laboratory, storage.
• Industrial plants - high or critical ventilation areas.
Benefits of a Kathabar Twin-Cel System
• Recovers energy usually wasted in the building exhaust air.
• Recovers sensible (temperature) and latent (humidity) heat. In the summer it cools and dehumidifies. In the winter it heats and humidifies.
• Remote intake and exhaust units save ductwork.
• Eliminates microbiological and particulate cross contamination.
• Removes 94% of all bacteria, viruses and molds from the air streams, both supply and exhaust.
• Reduces building operating and maintenance costs.
