ARLINGTON, VA — Improving comfort and energy efficiency through energy recovery ventilation (ERV) is the topic of the Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Institute’s (ARI’s) latest consumer brochure.
The brochure explains how ERV reduces peak demand, increases system efficiency, and improves humidity control. ERV uses an air-to-air heat exchanger to recover space-conditioning energy from exhaust air, and then uses that energy to pre-condition the outside air before it enters the building or hvac system.