EcoDrain - Industries

Home shower

Ecodrain is an efficient, next generation heat exchanger designed to fit in your home. The more you shower, the more you save. Turns out its one of the simplest, most cost effective home improvements you can make.

Multifamily buildings

Urban Geothermal

Harvesting geothermal energy has been proven to be a reliable clean source of energy in some applications. But typical geothermal systems require digging deep into the ground, or being located near a body of water, something that is often not practical in a dense urban environment. Fortunately, drain water can act as a geothermal ground source that is accessible and reliable in many multifamily buildings. When installed in this configuration, the ecodrain can be used to augment space heating and cooling, and can be combined with a heat pump to provide even greater savings.

Hotels

Hotels consume a lot of hot water in showers, laundry and dishwashing. Many hotels encourage guests to reuse towels to cut on the energy and environmental cost of unnecessary laundry.

Laundry

In a coin operated laundry, the utility expense can be more than 50% of the cost of operations. Installing ecodrain in the laundromat will cut the operating expense, and put more money in your pocket.

Gyms, spas, public pools and other heavy use showers

A high frequency shower consumes a lot of energy that is easily recoverable.

Dishwashing

Commercial dishwashers running regularly consume significant volumes of hot water. Ecodrain's A1000 heat exchanger has been tested by the Food Service Technology Center for heat recovery on conveyor dishwashers with positive results.

Tempering drain water

In many municipalities, drain water must be cooled to below 140F prior to entering the sewer system. Hotter drain water, such as at the exit of a dishwasher, can damages pipes. The current solution is to mix cold fresh water with the hot drain water to lower its temperature below the maximum. But this solution wastes water and energy. A better solution is to use ecodrain to cool the drain water, and at the same time preheat cold fresh water for later use.

Office Buildings

Office buildings typically use a lot of cold water for bathrooms. Office buildings also use a lot of air conditioning in the summer. Since heat always naturally travels from hot to cold, air conditioners consume a lot of energy because they pump hot inside air into the even hotter outside air, against its natural tendencies. A more natural way to cool is to transfer heat from the hot air into cooler water. Cooling air using fresh water is not allowed in most buildings because it wastes water. However, cool drain water can provide the same low cost cooling, without wasting any water. Dumping heat from your building into cold drain water is more efficient than dumping it into hot air.

Hair salons

In a hair salon, it pays to be green. According to Green Cirlce Salons, the average salon produces 821.76 kg of waste every year. Every time hair is washed with warm water in a salon, energy and money go to waste.

Data Center Cooling

Data centers located in office buildings can use cool drain water to pre-cool water in a closed loop chilled water system.

Shower at Work

These days, more people are biking to work. Not everyone needs to shower at work, but for those who do, why not make that shower green, and save some energy and money.

Urban Geothermal

Harvesting geothermal energy has been proven to be a reliable clean source of energy in some applications. But typical geothermal systems require digging deep into the ground, or being located near a body of water, something that is often not practical in a dense urban environment. Fortunately, drain water can act as a geothermal ground source that is accessible and reliable in many commerical buildings. When installed in this configuration, the ecodrain can be used to augment space heating and cooling, and can be combined with a heat pump to provide even greater savings.

Hospitals

Hospitals consume large volumes of hot water for sanitizing, cleaning, dishwashing and for laundry. Hospitals with on-site laundry can benefit greatly from recapturing heat from drain water.

Army barracks, police stations, fire stations

These facilities often use hot water for cooking, clothes washing and showering.

College campus

Schools, Universities, Colleges use a lot of hot water in showers, dishwashing and for laundry.

Corrections facilities

Hot water is consumed in showers, dishwashing and laundry.

Agricultural

Dairry farms are some of the largest users of energy in agricultre. Hot water is used for cleaning the milk contact surfaces of the milking equipment and the bulk tank, making them prime candidates for heat exchanger installation.

Parts washing and processing

Many production parts and components need to be washed at some point during the production cycle.

Food Processing

Food production requires the consumption of large volumes of hot water for cleaning and sanitizing.