The new ÖkoSchwimm is a hybrid heat recovery ventilation system that incorporates three different, highly effective technologies working together to create an optimal environmental control solution for high-specification pools.
Optimising heat recovery and energy-efficient dehumidification
The technologies focus on three main areas: the fans used in the units, optimising heat recovery ('free' heat), and energy-efficient dehumidification.
Firstly, the Ziehl-Abegg on-demand fan technology with backward-curved fans ("auto-fan" technology): the speed and power of the air-recirculation fan is managed automatically to enable significant energy savings whenever there is low demand.
Secondly, cross-flow Hoval recuperators to optimise heat recovery. The recuperator passively conducts heat from the exhaust air in the pool room via a series of adjoining plates directly to the incoming, colder fresh air. This process, in combination with the dehumidification heat pump, produces unrivalled levels of heat recovery.
Last but not least, an energy-efficient dehumidification system powered by Copeland Scroll compressors. The unit's dehumidification heat pump creates a cold evaporator coil to condense the moisture present in the air to reduce humidity levels. Through this process, the heat pump absorbs both latent and sensible energy, which is upgraded and recycled back into both the pool room air and pool water. Efficiencies of over 380% are possible through this process.
Pool heating is provided by the single packaged unit, using high-quality Behncke heat exchangers.
