An economizer is a mechanical device intended to reduce energy consumption or to perform a useful function such as preheating a fluid; in simple terms, an economizer is a heat exchanger. The term is used across several contexts, since boilers, power plants, heating, refrigeration, ventilating and air conditioning systems may all use an economizer, most commonly to recover waste heat that would otherwise be lost and use it to preheat water, air or another process fluid entering the system.
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Technology Type Invented Year1845 is Edward Green's patented boiler economiser, the origin of the familiar name. Robert Stirling had already used the term for a heat exchange component of his hot air engine in 1816, an earlier but differently applied use of the idea. Classification
MaturityTRL 9: Actual System Proven in Operational Environment 1 Sources
1. Wikipedia: Economizer
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It was patented by Edward Green in 1845, and since then has been known as Green's economiser.
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In simple terms, an economizer is a heat exchanger.
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The term is used across several contexts, since boilers, power plants, heating, refrigeration, ventilating and air conditioning systems may all use an economizer, most commonly to recover waste heat that would otherwise be lost and use it to preheat water, air or another process fluid entering the system.
In Group: Heat Exchangers and Boiler Components, Lead
Economizers (US and Oxford spelling), or economisers (UK), are mechanical devices intended to reduce energy consumption, or to perform a useful function such as preheating a fluid.
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