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Ducted Exhaust System

Ducted Exhaust System

Ducted Exhaust System

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Hi,
Does any one have information or experience for heat removal by ducting the exhaust (hot air only) of a few machines.  Each machine has a cooling fan and the heat comes out of a grill on the side of the machine where I can collect the out flowing hot air. Is there a collecting system we can just buy.  The hot air will be sent to out side the building.  This air is clean and no filteration is needed.

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RE: Ducted Exhaust System

Sounds like an ideal application for a small HRV (heat recovery ventilator) if you are in a cool/cold climate.    You'd have to install sheet metal ductwork to connect the exhaust points up into a main exhaust trunk duct, then the HRV can provide pre-heated outdoor air as make-up air if you are in a cold climate.  

If you are not in a cold climate then you'll have to buy an exhaust fan, design some exhaust ductwork, and get the thing installed.  You still need a source of make-up air to replace the exhausted air.

RE: Ducted Exhaust System

If you take air out, you will have to put air back in.

Heat recovery is a good idea.

RE: Ducted Exhaust System

Look at the "Industrial Ventilation" handbook to obtain some basic guidelines

RE: Ducted Exhaust System

Go to a local HVAC contractor.  There won't be an 'off the shelf' system you can just buy but there should be nothing difficult about getting it designed and installed installed.

RE: Ducted Exhaust System

Depending on the airflow, temp of discharged air, etc, a Nederman exhaust extraction arm is an ideal "off the shelf" system, that allows the exhaust system to be swung out of the way when working on the machine.  Web-search on Nederman.

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