HVAC

HVAC energy costs can make up 15 - 30% of the total energy spent for most buildings. We are blessed to have an HVAC engineering team with a combined 70 years of experience in helping companies reduce energy waste, improve air quality and heat recapture, and design and implement energy-smart solutions that improve work environments for team members and reduce energy waste.

HEAT RECOVERY

Heat Recovery (Waste Heat)
Waste Heat Recovery is the green energy of the future. Most of our clients have yet to learn how much electric energy we can generate from their waste heat. At Energy Design Engineers, waste heat recovery is more than helping our clients save money. This work is integral to who we are and what wakes us up at night. While everyone is responsible for being more sustainable, it is an essential part of our mission that we live out daily.
Companies today have to do more with less, and waste heat allows them to do just that. Our “Heat Engine” design can generate up to 10 megawatts of continuous renewable green energy from waste heat. A large heat recovery project can create more power than the average solar farm (5 megawatts). DTE (utility) has a 360-acre solar farm in Lapeer, Michigan that generates 48 megawatts to give you some sense of scale to the amount of power generated from waste heat.
Reclaiming your waste heat provides the following benefits
  • Energy Savings: Heat recovery systems capture and reuse waste heat from various processes or systems within your facility. Instead of letting this heat dissipate into the environment, it’s harnessed and repurposed for heating water, creating electricity and other purposes.
  • Lower Operating Costs: The company saves monthly money by using less energy to operate its business. As the cost of electric power continues to increase, this investment in waste heat recovery becomes even more essential and saves even more money with each year’s rising energy costs.  
  • Environmental Benefits: Heat recovery saves money and reduces your operations’ environmental impact. Decarbonizing your building is a big step forward with your heat recovery project.  
  • Long-Term Investment: While installing heat recovery systems will require an initial investment, the long-term benefits far outweigh the upfront costs. These systems have a relatively long lifespan and continue to deliver energy savings over many years.  As energy rates continue rising, you will not have to pay for some of those increasing costs because you are generating green energy at your facility.  
  • Resilience and Reliability: Heat recovery systems can improve the strength and reliability of your operations by providing an additional energy source. In case of disruptions or fluctuations in the primary energy supply, having a heat recovery system ensures continuity in your energy supply.
  • Large Utility and Federal Incentives/Rebates: Today (2023), if you can generate green energy (renewable), substantial sums of money are available to pay for part of the project costs.
Our work projects provide a wide range of benefits, including the following but limited to:

Remove dust, dirt, oils, and other pollutants from your facility's air to reduce the number of respiratory problems

Is an area of your facility not meeting the required temperature? Allow our experienced engineering team to help. If your work surface temperatures are 90F or above, your productivity decreases by an estimated 

Reduce the risk of fire and explosions.  Remove toxic gases and fumes to meet all the required safety standards.  

A healthier work environment with reduced risk of injury will increase your productivity.  In today’s challenging labor market, why would someone want to work in a work environment with pollutants, dust, gas and fumes, chemical vapors, and smoke when they work down the street at another company without these issues for the same amount of money? 

Overall, reducing the temperature and humidity and cleaning up the air in your facility will make your workplace a better place to work.  This does lead to improved employee job satisfaction and more excellent retention.

We optimize all aspects of your HVAC systems and find significant energy waste in all our HVAC audits.

Our work quickly cleans up even the dirtiest environments (see story below).

Filter changes and additional labor hours were a big part of many of our client's quarterly budgets.  With the properly engineered ventilation system, we reduce energy costs and improve your facility in many other ways.

Slippery floors, staircases, and equipment can all cause a slip and fall. One slip and fall injury can lead to costs hundreds of times more expensive than our services. Fumes, gases, and smoke in the air aggravate employees' respiratory systems and lead to higher absenteeism and sick leave.

One of our projects (24 x 6) had a cleaning schedule consisting of four major cleaning sessions per day because of partials in the air. At 6 a.m., the trash containers were emptied and cleaned. By 8:30 a.m., the trash container lid had a very noticeable layer of dust, and by the 10 a.m. cleaning, there was a heavy coating of dust on the same lid. This was everywhere in the facility, and all the employees and equipment struggled with it.  

One three-month project solved this problem; today, the facility is cleaned once daily in the evenings. This is the power of sound engineering and the ability to solve problems in these difficult work environments. 

How we can help your company

  • Improve work environments (removing smoke, oil, dust, and higher temperatures).
  • Cost-effective design and implementation services for existing and new construction.  
  • We specialize in process improvement, helping clients modify existing processes to be more efficient and cost-effective, improve safety, and reduce carbon.  
  • Establish clear metrics, wireless reporting, and system optimization to allow our clients to detail energy, labor, and materials costs.  
  • Analyze manufacturing processes to improve quality and efficiencies and reduce labor costs.
  • Dirty Air and smoke hinder your workers and make your business less desirable.  While others will tell you it can be done, we are cleaning up air quality in foundries and other challenging environments.  
  • Heat Recovery: Ask us about our Heat Engine and how we can turn waste heat into recurring green energy.

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