Energy recovery unit
AssigneeSpinnaker Industries Inc.
InventorMaurice Lattanzio
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Abstract
An energy recovery unit has an energy recovery wheel located in a plenum. Expelled air from the return duct is delivered to the plenum and after passing through the wheel is expelled by an exhaust fan through a side wall. Makeup air is delivered to the plenum and after passing through the wheel is supplied to the return duct by a fan. The makeup air follows a serpentine path from an intake in a side wall to the return duct.
Claims10
An energy recovery unit comprising a plenum, an energy recovery wheel located within the plenum and passing through a divider that subdivides the plenum into a pair of compartments, an expelled air duct extending from an inlet through one of said compartments to an exhaust, a makeup air duct extending along a serpentine path from an intake through another of said compartments to a discharge, said intake and said exhaust being located on oppositely directed walls of said unit and said inlet and discharge being located on a common wall.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.