Calorex dehumidifiers
are fully self-contained, packaged units which incorporate
an air circulation fan and a totally CFC free refrigeration
circuit. The fan draws room air into the machine passing
it firstly across a refrigerated heat exchanger (evaporator).
This cools the air, causing the moisture in the air-stream
to be precipitated onto the evaporator as water.
The electrical driving energy, the energy recovered
from the air-stream and the latent energy gained from
the dehumidification process is combined and fed to
the refrigeration condenser which is thereby heated.
The cool dry air from the evaporator passes across
this heated condenser before being passed back into
the room, dry and warm. The moisture collected from
the process is fed away to waste.
Due to the unique nature of a refrigeration circuit,
energy removed from the air during the dehumidification
process is converted into useable heat. Typically,
for every 1kW of Electrical energy that a dehumidifier
consumes, it will give out 2.5kW of heat energy. Thus
by removing moisture from the air, rather than heating
it to a high temperature, Calorex dehumidifiers will
dry in a gentle, more controllable manner. This alleviates
possible material shrinkage and cracking problems
associated with high temperature drying methods and
saves substantial running costs.
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