The EcoThermics Solution
Political, economic, and environmental pressures now place energy consumption, conservation, and the protection of our global environment at the forefront of global conscientiousness. We believe these are not stumbling blocks to economic progress, but rather stepping stones to uncharted achievement and exceptional opportunities.
"EcoThermics has potentially game-changing technology."
Glen Barton
Retired CEO
Catepillar, Inc.
The consolidated collection of EcoThermics technology features and capabilities are nonexistent today’s marketplace. These products utilize a proprietary suite of intellectual property in fluid mechanics and thermal dynamics listing the following advantages:
- Durability - Lubrication problems that cause existing compressors to fail have been successfully addressed. The compressor is exceedingly robust with impressive power-density.
- Energy Efficiency - The RWH variable compressor presents a ~20% increase in energy efficiency and an additional ~30% will be recognized by implementing the integrated energy recovery module, for a combined increase of ~50% compared with typical FC based systems.
- Capacity – The EcoThermics compressor is variable in capacity from ~1.5 tons to ~7 tons. Enhanced efficiency is maintained through an entire range of continuously changing system demands.
- Hydronic Motive - The two-stage heat exchanger and compressor are the primary components for the hydronic heat pump, enabling hot and cold hydronic piping configurations, or thermal energy grid, a super-efficient method of distributing and conserving thermal energy.
- Modular - For diverse power inputs, either electric motor or hydraulic drive is available. This is critical in mobile and disaster recovery applications where the electric grid is unavailable and mobilization outweighs efficiency in first response. Offering diverse selection of efficiency ranges, variability and energy recovery are also modular options warranting product premiums.
- Manufacturability -Smaller, quieter and lighter than conventional designs, with significant design, manufacturing and inventory economies of scale and no exotic raw materials.
For environmental control applications, the R744 heat pump unit will provide a very high rate of investment return in new construction as well as retrofits by providing superior comfort, efficiency, and health benefits of the hydronic method. Providing both heating and cooling capabilities at high efficiency, this technology will exploit the growing market trend of re-emerging hydronic heating systems with the inclusion new cooling capabilities.
This untapped, cost effective, dual hydronic heating and cooling ability will vastly expand the heat pump market for environmental control applications into high-volume residential and commercial markets. This ability and potential is mirrored for innumerable industrial processing uses that assign great value to energy consumption reductions.