Innovative Energy Recovery
INDOOR AIR QUALITY
Indoor Air Quality has become a focus of attention
for everyone: employees insist on a clean air environment;
lawyers look for “sick buildings”; and government agencies
enforce new regulations for clean air. Engineers are search-
ing for better solutions, and building owners are looking for
cost effective systems that provide satisfactory indoor air
quality. What is the answer?
Recently developed Heat Recovery/Energy Sav-
ing systems offer many possibilities to the discerning owner
to provide high quality indoor air while saving fuel. This
brochure introduces some of these new heat recovery sys-
tems.
AIR-to-AIR ENERGY RECOVERY
Air-to-air heat recovery systems are the specific heat
exchangers we will discuss. They transfer heat from the
exhaust airstream into the supply airstream. Flat-plate, heat
pipes, and rotary exchangers are normal types which can
recover up to 80% of heat exhausted for re-use to preheat
outdoor ventilation supply air. In addition, special flat-
plate and rotary exchangers, when treated with a desiccant,
can move moisture from the airstream with higher vapor
pressure to the other airstream. Depending on the applica-
tion and exchanger type selected, outdoor ventilation air is
pre-conditioned close to desired temperature and humidity
simply by re-using heat and moisture captured from the ex-
hausted air. Supplemental heating and cooling coils com-
plete the units to assure desirable temperature and humidity
to the ventilation air year ‘round at low operating costs.
XeteX specializes in applying and providing air to air heat
recovery ventilators of many sizes and types.
The Heat-X-Changer is a flat-plate air-to-air ex-
changer designed to recover waste heat from exhaust air and
use the waste heat to preheat the cooler fresh outside air.
Some of the unique features of the Heat-X-Changer are;
open exhaust air channel for reduced frosting and fouling,
rigid construction for long term durability and high differ-
ential pressure performance, and seamless air channels for
an airtight exchanger. The normal Heat-X-Changer is con-
structed of aluminum and can handle exhaust temperatures
up to 220oF. For higher temperatures or extremely corrosive
exhaust airstreams, epoxy coating, aluminized steel, and
stainless steel are also available.
AIRotor is a rotary heat exchanger that rotates
through two airsteams while absorbing sensible and latent
heat from one airstream and releasing it into the other. The
rotor media is constructed of alternate layers of flat and cor-
rugated thin sheet aluminum that are glued together to form
a rigid structure. A rigid tubular steel welded frame limits
rotor deflection to less than 0.03". Tight fitting brush seals
and a perfectly smooth rotor surface reduce air leakage to a
fraction of the competition. The AIRotor desiccant coating
is an aluminum compound that transfers sensible and latent
energy. The hygroscopic coating is permanently bonded to
the rotor media and can be cleaned with low pressure steam
without degrading unit performance. Constant speed or
Variable speed rotor drives are available as well as DDC
temperature controls.
In addition to standard energy recovery, XeteX
also provides innovative evergy saving systems that re-
duce energy consumption and provide high Indoor Air
Quality.
“Displacement” air systems provide exceptionally
clean Indoor Air Quality at low energy costs through effec-
tive removal of polluted air and introduction of 100% pure,
clean ventilation air at the occupant’s breathing level. This
“Displacement” air system is effective on any application
requiring ventilation air including classrooms, offices, res-
taurants, industrial plants, etc. An example of a welding
smoke removal system called Weld-Master will describe
the general principles of the “Displacement” system.
Unlike the typical ventilation system that simply
dilutes the poluted air with clean air, the Weld-Master sys-
tem introduces cool, slow moving fresh air through floor
mounted terminals that allow the fresh air to form a “lake”
of clean air on the shop floor. When any welder strikes an
arc, the welded metal
and the surrounding
air heats up and rises
naturally to the ceil-
ing. Clean, cool air
is pulled up around
the welder, displac-
ing the contami-
nated, hot, welding
fumes that rise to the
ceiling to be directly
exhausted. All occupants breathe absolutely clean, fresh air
since all the contaminated air has risen out of the breathing
zone, never to be re-mixed into recirculated or diluted air.
 Weld-Master systems offer the following distinct
advantages:
1. Ventilation air quantity is much lower resulting in
about half the fan motor HP and less than half as
much outside air to heat. In addition, it lowers fan
energy and fuel consumption operating costs.
A Dri-X-Changer system provides a solution to
this dilemma. Essentially, outdoor air is cooled in one side
of the heat exchanger before passing through the dehumidi-
fying cooling coil. The chilled, dehumidified air is then
reheated as it passes through the other side of the heat ex-
changer. Since the heat exchanger provides pre-cooling
and reheat, the cooling equipment is smaller. Energy and
equipment costs are reduced while providing desirable In-
door Air Quality.

Indoor swimming pool areas often have deteriorat-

ing structures, poor indoor air quality, and are expensive to
operate. The Pool-Master system was developed in response
to these common problems.

Pool-Master is custom designed for each pool ap-

plication to provide a complete pool environmental system.
A single compact, self-contained, corrosion-resistant unit
includes a highly efficient heat recovery exchanger, blow-
2. Heat Recovery devices are very effective...the un-
ers, dampers, economizer, auxiliary heater, and all safety
diluted exhaust air is very warm and has more po-
and operating controls. Temperature, humidity, and out-
tential to preheat the cool outside air. Fuel con-
door ventilation air are automatically regulated to the pool
sumption is further reduced by as much as 70%.
area. Simple, reliable, automatic controls and the energy-
reducing features of the heat exchanger keep operating costs
3. All occupants, including welders, enjoy clean, fresh
to a minimum.
air undiluted by welding smoke.

BOCA and ASHRAE 62-1989 Ventilation Stan-

dards have imposed severe cooling and dehumidifying con-
ditions on normal air conditioning units for all types of
applications. In some applications such as classrooms, out-
door air quantities have tripled from previous requirements.
Often, engineers cannot find equipment capable of provid-
ing comfortable indoor air quality without the high costs of
oversized cooling and energy wasting reheat.

Chilled Dehumidified Air

Summer
Outside Air

All of these energy recovery/energy saving sys-

tems provide better Indoor Air Quality while reducing
the consumption and cost of energy. Contact us or one of
Heat-X-Changer
our factory representatives for more information on any
DX Coil

of the XeteX products.

Re-Heated
Dry Supply Air

Pre-Cooled Air
 XeteX
The Leader in Air-to-Air Energy Recovery

XeteX Air-To-Air Heat Exchangers

XeteX is intent on providing the most cost-effective

air-to-air heat exchangers available today. Based on
technical design and application experience on com-
mercial HVAC equipment since 1960, XeteX was in-
corporated in 1984 to develop heat exchangers and sys-
tems appropriate for the expanding needs of commer-
cial buildings for better indoor air quality.

As the need to design, fabricate, and supply heat ex-

changers in the USA increased, XeteX established a
plant in LaCrosse, Wisconsin, where air-to-air heat ex-
changers are fabricated. XeteX has supplied alumi-
num and stainless steel flat plate exchangers made in
the USA to a large variety of applications ranging from
100,000 CFM indirect evaporative coolers to
50 CFM residential ventilators and 12000 CFM high
temperature process to 4000 CFM precooler/reheaters.

XeteX Test Site

XeteX Test Labs
XeteX is not standing still - we are on the edge of sig-
nificant advances in heat exchanger design and pro-
duction. Already the patent-holder on a high efficiency,
double-pass heat exchanger, we have several more
patents on the way.
XeteX has also entered a joint research venture with
the Center for Interfacial Engineering (CIE) and Tech-
nical Institute at the University of Minnesota to docu-
ment actual exchanger performance, and maximize heat
and energy transfer by designing cost-efficient ex-
changers.

XeteX has installed a complete research laboratory and
test facility fully instrumented to comply with
ASHRAE Standard 84-1991, "Method of Testing Air-
to-Air Heat Exchangers." Performance tests on Heat-
X-Changers by XeteX are documented by an inde-
pendent test laboratory.
And XeteX continues to contribute to industry devel-
opment by serving on the technical committee of air-
to-air heat exchangers at the American Society of Heat-
ing, Ventilating and Air Conditioning Engineers
(ASHRAE) and contributing directly to writing and
illustrations for ASHRAE technical publications.

XeteX has a vision - to create and produce a better,

more cost-effective means of increasing indoor air qual-
ity. Even today we believe XeteX produces the best
air-to-air heat exchangers available - and we welcome
the opportunity to help you apply them.