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The document discusses designing an air replacement system for an eco house that can extract heat from warm stale air being expelled. EP Consultancy will mathematically design and analyze several types of heat exchangers, including cross flow, shell and tube, and plate types. The analysis will evaluate the designs based on factors like effectiveness, practicality, size, and expected energy savings.

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Introduction

The document discusses designing an air replacement system for an eco house that can extract heat from warm stale air being expelled. EP Consultancy will mathematically design and analyze several types of heat exchangers, including cross flow, shell and tube, and plate types. The analysis will evaluate the designs based on factors like effectiveness, practicality, size, and expected energy savings.

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introduction to save on the energy required to heat the eco house all most all draughts will be sealed

resulting in no mass transfer of heat energy throught the hot fluid escaping and cold fluid entering. The Building Research Establishment [1] notes that the exfiltration
of warm air can account for as much as 30% of the heat loss through a buildings envelope.

As the required air changers required per hour for hermitically sealed house is 0.6 per hour [2] the aim of EP consultancy is to design a suitable air replacement system that can extract as mutch usefull heat from the warmed slate air , Reducing the enviromental impact of the house. Hope fully gainin the aproval of channel fours Kevin mercloud.. essesially EP will mathmaticaially desighn and anlise sevral different types of heat exchanger namely, cross flow, shell and tube and plate type.all spefications will be suitable for the eco house. design, sizing and rating analysis shall be conducted through several different methods; Log Mean Temperature Difference. Epsilon-Number of thermal units. Overall Heat Transfer co-efficient. Full descriptions of each method shall be given in the body of the report and all geometric configurations shall be evaluated and compared from the perspective of price ,effectiveness ,practabilty, size, and expected enegy saving. heat exchangeres are a device for efectivially tranfering heat between two mediums.the gouvning principal that drives this heat transfer is the "Zeroth law" stating that if a fluid or medium is in contact with another fluid whoes tempreature is lower than its own, given enough time the two fluids will reach thermal equalibrium.the second law of thermodynamics is also of critical importance to heat exchangers "energy cannot be created or destroyed only converted from one from to another. meaning that the total energy lost from the warm stale air must be gained by the cold fresh air. Of course assuming no external heat loss is present and the operation is steady state. Predicted by theory and proven by practise E.P Consultants will supply a correctly specified and practically sized heat exchanging air replacement system. Witch shall pay back its initial capital out lay in ((((years))

The Building Research Establishment notes that the exfiltration of warm air can account for as much as 30% of the heat loss through a buildings envelope. [1]. Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE) (2002). TM 23 Testing Buildings for Air Leakage. London [2] taken from http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/A/AE_air_change.html on the 2/1/2012

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