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Heating With Domestic Hot Water

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cgw
cgw Member Posts: 42
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Is there a unit heater that can be used to heat using domestic hot water, Does the coil need to comply with ANSI/NSF61?

It would be to heat an apartment building stairway. The building does not have a heating hot water system but it does have a central domstic hot water system.

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  • Charlie from wmass
    Charlie from wmass Member Posts: 4,422
    You would need to check local codes

    If it were my job I would not do what you are attempting due to possible bacterial contamination of the domestic hot water system. What does the building use for heating currently?
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  • EricAune
    EricAune Member Posts: 432
    X-Pump Block?

    What about using a Taco X-Pump Block?  Its made for this type of application, I have no idea what may be needed in your exact application....just an idea.

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  • Ironman
    Ironman Member Posts: 7,859
    OT, Eric

    Just read the article about you in the PHC news. Congrats.
    Bob Boan
    You can choose to do what you want, but you cannot choose the consequences.
  • cgw
    cgw Member Posts: 42
    OK, thinking out load:

    The Taco X-pump is not ANSI/NSF 61 any more than a unit heater coil. Maybe less so. A unit heater coil is copper piping (like the distrubution piping) with a bunch of turns.

    I need to look into ANSI/NSF 61.

    It will be bad enough heating with 115ish deg water much less running that water through a heat exchanger (for which I don't see any inofrmation).
  • EricAune
    EricAune Member Posts: 432
    Thanks!

    Thanks!

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