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13.  "What is HRV technology?"

HRV stands for Heat Recovery Ventilator. It is a technology that has been used for the last 40 years worldwide to provide high quality indoor air into buildings for the benefits of the occupants. HRV technology is used for commercial and industrial buildings as well as residential buildings.

All HRV systems generally provide the following:

  • fresh air into a building,
  • extract stale air from the building,
  • filter the fresh air entering the building to remove pollutants,
  • recover heat from the stale air using a heat exchange core,
  • and transfer the recovered heat to the incoming fresh air.
HRV systems are fully ducted systems delivering fresh filtered air to living and bedrooms and extracting stale air from high moisture areas such as bathrooms, kitchens and laundries. Typically, an HRV is able to recover 70 to 80 percent of the heat from the exhaust air and transfer it to the incoming air.

For more detailed information read Heat Recovery Ventilator

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