Swimming Pool Heat Exchangers
There a number of ways for heating pools. You have the heaters that are designed solely to be heating the pool water. There are heat exchangers you can use that are for taking heat from the home central heating. Many swimming pool owners now are looking at the heat exchangers that take heat from the air and put it into the pool water.
Corrosion-Resistant Materials
Units are available in titanium, cupro-nickel and stainless steel, the type of materials of the heat exchanger will depend on the type of water you are using. Salt water is corrosive and so is chlorinated water too. The materials that the exchanger is made from will be determined by the pool water. The salt water pools need the heat exchangers to be constructed from titanium and bronze. Units are constructed of corrosion resistant cupro-nickel tubes and bronze end covers. Titanium is so suited for swimming pool use that you will often find you can get a 10 year anti-corrosion guarantee.
Using Central Heating Boilers To Heat The Water
Conventional pool heaters will be fairly inefficient at about 50 to 60 percent efficiency, while the Central heating boilers can get up to 90 percent efficiency. So you can imagine there will be cost advantages to heating pool water indirectly from a central heating boiler. The Eco friendly pool heaters that use the ambient air to Heat the water are most efficient of all and can really reduce the costs of running a pool. The benefit of that is the extra days you can be using the pool during a swimming season. They work in a similar way to fridges but in reverse.
Applications for Pool Heat Exchangers
The heat exchangers that you can use with your Pools, can also be used for spas and hot tubs, domestic hot water and industrial And sea water applications waste water heat recovery. Titanium models as with other construction materials have a high rate of water flow which means that there are self cleaning. Low maintenance being one of the benefits of that.
Swimming Pool Heater Heat Exchanger Sizing
Typical applications for these pool heat exchanger units are for heating of pools using boilers or solar panels with either hot water or glycol as the heating medium. The manufacturer will have work out tables for the matching the size of the heater with the size of the pool, so pool heater exchanger sizing is a painless affair.
