Test results and methods: residential air-to-air heat exchangers for maintaining indoor air quality and saving energy.

Gives a general description of air-to-air heat exchangers. Discusses criteria for measuring the performance of heat exchangers. Briefly discusses factors affecting actual performance. Describes the heat exchanger facility atLawrence Berkeley Laboratory. Reports tests on four commercially available heat exchangers and one home-made exchanger. Gives results of tests of effectiveness and airstream static pressure drop. Concludes that heat exchangers with performance characteristics superior to those tested can be manufactured for a reasonable cost.