EcoDrain – how to reduce heating costs Bashny.Net

The vast majority of eco-conscious homeowners keen to maximise the efficiency of the infrastructure of their homes. In the case of a bathroom, they are often focused on minimizing the use of water resources, because in most bathrooms are the sink, toilet and shower, through which the drain leaves tons of water.
But engineers from one of the Montreal company decided to study the problem from a different angle and realized that with the water the drain out, and heat energy.
Canadians created a device called the EcoDrain can dramatically reduce the house heating costs by recycling heat energy from the water that flows down the drain from the sink and shower.
Two features make this product unique: unlike vast majority of systems of recuperation of thermal energy, which is already on the market, the novelty is characterized by the ultimate simplicity in installation and increased compactness, which allows to minimize the numbers on the utility bill even owners of small houses and apartments.



Note that the EcoDrain prototype was presented in 2009 at the time this technology was still far from perfect. But engineers have continuously improved and tested their offspring, and now, the market received a truly complete product. According to the developers, the final version EcoDrain saves from $ 100 to $ 250 a year on utility bills (depending on your tariff for thermal energy, gas or electricity).

So how does this contraption actually works? When you take a shower a huge amount of warm water flows down the drain. If you install EcoDrain, before entering into the sewer heated H2O passes through a highly efficient heat exchanger.
Patented turbulator, which generates turbulence in the water, the heat transfer rate in this case is at a record high level, it is possible to avoid a significant reduction of water pressure in the pipeline. Recovered heat is directed into the heating system.

 

Source: www.ekopower.ru/