{"id":4517,"date":"2024-06-14T15:50:36","date_gmt":"2024-06-14T13:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/2024\/06\/14\/warewashing-aspiration-and-heat-recovery\/"},"modified":"2024-06-14T15:50:36","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T13:50:36","slug":"warewashing-aspiration-and-heat-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/2024\/06\/14\/warewashing-aspiration-and-heat-recovery\/","title":{"rendered":"Warewashing, Aspiration and Heat Recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text text_larger=&#8221;no&#8221;][\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text text_larger=&#8221;no&#8221;]All restaurants are equipped with a <em>washing area<\/em>.<br \/>\nFirst of all, the law requires it.<br \/>\nHowever, You wouldn&#8217;t do good business serving food on dirty plates&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The main machine in the washing area is obviously the <strong>dishwasher<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Which generates quite a bit of steam, and by consequence raising the temperature and percentage of relative humidity in the environment.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the point is: <em>is an extractor hood needed for the dishwasher<\/em>, even though it does not produce cooking fumes and, therefore, particulates that are harmful to operators?<\/p>\n<p>The answer, of course, is <strong>yes<\/strong>.<br \/>\nOtherwise, we wouldn&#8217;t have written this post, don&#8217;t you think??<\/p>\n<p>Above a dishwasher that carries out a fairly large workload at each service, it is better to have an extraction hood.<\/p>\n<p>They do contribute substantially to eliminating excess humidity and the heat brought by the steam produced by the washing water.<\/p>\n<p>Just an example: an experiment carried on in the United States demonstrated how, by dividing the kitchen into 3 zones depending on the work carried out, the washing area was the one with a relative humidity 55% higher than the average of the other zones, with peaks of 69%, with temperature ranges from 24\u00b0 to 32\u00b0C, with peaks of 38\u00b0C if the washing area is close to the cooking area (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cibse.org\/knowledge-research\/knowledge-portal\/ashrae-handbook-hvac-applications-2019\"><em>2019 ASHRAE\u00ae Handbook Heating, Ventilating, and Air-Conditioning Applications &#8211; 34.10<\/em><\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Besides that, it can be equipped with a <em>heat recovery system<\/em>, which allows you to recover part of the heat (duh!) released when the dishwasher door is opened.<\/p>\n<p>This will be used to heat the pipes containing the water used for cleaning dishes (or other operations).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aluminox.it\"><strong>Aluminox<\/strong><\/a> offers an external module, equipped with a refrigeration unit for condensation, equipped with a coil, a small boiler and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>If you want to know more, just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/contatti\/?lang=en\"><em>ask us<\/em><\/a> about the KV + Condensing module![\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text text_larger=&#8221;no&#8221;][\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text text_larger=&#8221;no&#8221;]All restaurants are equipped with a washing area. First of all, the law requires it. However, You wouldn&#8217;t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}