Air to Air Heat Exchangers

Building performance Equipment, Inc. is a manufacturing company dedicated to meeting heat recovery needs for air or other gases. The company is incorporated in the State of Delaware with Corporate Offices in Delaware and New Jersey. They have manufacturing facilities in both states that allow them to address large orders with greater flexibility.

As the designers and patent holders on a number of Air to Air Heat Exchanger Designs, BPE is the authoritative source on heat recovery systems!

Air is free.

But when freezing or sweltering, it is expensive to heat or cool. Many exisitng buildings lack the ablitity to heat and cool enough air to improve indoor air quality to acceptable modern standards.

The BPE X-Type high efficiency air to air energy recovery device is 87% plus thermally efficient with no cross contamination and can be installed in existing building were needed without expensive existing HVAC modifications. A typical 10 person office suite can be ventilated with a BPE X-Type with no tie-in to existing heating or cooling systems and provide fresh air within a few degrees of room temperature without the need for additional mechanical heating or cooling.

BPE products make the air virtually free again no matter what the temperature and improve indoor air quality while helping the environment! With limited or no modification to existing buildings heating and air conditioning systems.

By using BPE patented technologies, you are able to precondition fresh outdoor air to room temperature for your building, school, office, or home, substantially reduce your energy bill, and improve indoor air quality, all with reliable equipment that needs no maintenance typically for 15 years.

Why Use Air to Air Heat Exchangers?

Why Bother with mechanical ventilation for Homes and Commercial Buildings?

National codes and building standard require a prescribed amount of fresh outdoor air. More fresh outdoor air generally means less indoor air pollution (IAP) and better Indoor Air Quality (IAQ).

Indoor air pollution (IAP) is ranked by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) among the top five environmental risks to human health. The World Health Organization estimates that nearly one in every six commercial buildings in the United States suffers from sick-building syndrome and that occupants of another one in twelve suffer from building-related illnesses. Indoor air quality (IAQ) problems cost American business $10 billion per year through lowered productivity, absenteeism, and medical costs.

The World Health Organization reports that one billion people are regularly exposed to dangerous levels of indoor air pollution, whether at home, at work or when traveling by mass transit.

EPA - Sources of Indoor Air Pollution - Organic Gases (Volatile Organic Compounds - VOCs)
Volatile organic chemicals (VOCs) are emitted as gases from certain solids or liquids. VOCs include a variety of chemicals, some of which may have short- and long-term adverse health effects. Concentrations of many VOCs are consistently higher indoors (up to ten times higher) than outdoors. VOCs are emitted by a wide array of products numbering in the thousands. Examples include: paints and lacquers, paint strippers, cleaning supplies, pesticides, building materials and furnishings, office equipment such as copiers and printers, correction fluids and carbonless copy paper, graphics and craft materials including glues and adhesives, permanent markers, and photographic solutions.

Organic chemicals are widely used as ingredients in household products. Paints, varnishes, and wax all contain organic solvents, as do many cleaning, disinfecting, cosmetic, degreasing, and hobby products. Fuels are made up of organic chemicals. All of these products can release organic compounds while you are using them, and, to some degree, when they are stored.

EPA's Total Exposure Assessment Methodology (TEAM) studies found levels of about a dozen common organic pollutants to be 2 to 5 times higher inside homes than outside, regardless of whether the homes were located in rural or highly industrial areas. Additional TEAM studies indicate that while people are using products containing organic chemicals, they can expose themselves and others to very high pollutant levels, and elevated concentrations can persist in the air long after the activity is completed.