Eurovent has released a second version of its Recommendation 9/12 on the performance efficiency standard for evaporative cooling equipment.
The second edition includes radial fans, which are a sub-category of centrifugal fans.
Evaporative cooling products
The main purpose of this Recommendation is to define energy efficiency for mechanical draught evaporative cooling products and determine target levels to improve the energy efficiency of the population of mechanical draught evaporative cooling products within Europe and the Middle East over some time.
In this recommendation, the members of the Eurovent Product Group ‘Evaporative Cooling Equipment’ (PG-CT) provided the methods to be applied by suppliers to verify that the defined efficiency targets are met.
Ecodesign Regulation (EU) 2024/1834
Massimiliano Ferrario, Secretary of the Eurovent PG-CT, mentioned: “The second edition of this Recommendation follows the recently adopted Ecodesign Regulation (EU) 2024/1834 on industrial fans between 125W and 500kW, which will likely phase out centrifugal fans from our market. Consequently, we have updated the Recommendation to include radial fans, which will be the successors of centrifugal fans for cooling towers. It is remarkable to see how competitors can work together to promote a market driven by efficiency and quality.”
This document was published by Eurovent and was prepared in a joint effort by participants of the Product Group ‘Evaporative Cooling Equipment’ (PG-CT), which represents a vast majority of all manufacturers of these products active on the EMEA market.
