Heat Exchanger Grow Room

The hot saturated air is being pushed trough the pvc pipe in the other direction to leave the room.

Heat exchanger grow room.

A good use for hot water would be to heat your grow room at night. Probably 200 or so. The air heat exchanger consists mainly of an aluminum pipe made from soda cans that sits inside a wider pvc pipe. If you have no heat coming into room.

For that size grow it jsut doesn t pencil out as you only need a 12k or 18k mini split. With this system you can do away with your in and out ducting and keep everything but the water chiller inside the garden. It exhausts stale air outdoors and draws in fresh filtered and conditioned air to replace it while the intake and extract airflows are fully separated. Also keep your reservoir below 50f.

Coolant is piped to a wall mounted heat exchanger and fan located inside your grow room. Units of this type are expensive but use very little interior space and can be installed without damaging or modifying your room. I would however run a sepperate ground loop of pex that terminates in the grow room. This is useful to control rh and thus reduce potential for powdery mildew and related problems.

Hydro innovation s 6 ice box heat exchanger is very effective at removing heat from a sealed room. If your grow room is 6 feet wide 6 feet long and has an 8 foot ceiling you have 288 cubic feet of air in the room 6x6x8 288. It can be done and it is pretty slick but its expensive you would have to have a seperate geo thermal heat pump for the grow room. The colder the better.

Benefits of a heater for the grow room or tent great for heating your room when the temperature fluctuates too much. The ice box is a water cooled heat exchanger that can be used to cool the hot air generated by your lights. Vents micra 150 is a single room heat recovery ventilator used most frequently in bedrooms living rooms offices as well as apartments and small commercial places. However to remove the heat produced by a single 600w 1000w bulb you will need to either daisy chain 2 of them together or purchase an 8 ice box instead.

So if your blower is rated at 265 cfm and it has no restrictions on the intake or exhaust side it should take about a minute to replace all the air.