How Heatsavr works
Swimming pool heat loss
The problem is simple. Heat is lost from a swimming pool via evaporation. Evaporation counts for between 70% and 90% of pool heat loss. If you reduce evaporation, you reduce heat loss and as a consequence, less energy is required to heat your pool.
Heatsavr™ works by drastically reducing evaporation thus leading to a saving in heating costs, with the added benefit of reducing water and chemical loss.
There are a number of factors that affect evaporation;
- Ambient air temperature
- Pool temperature
- Humidity
- Wind speed
Ambient air temperature, pool temperature and humidity apply to all types of pool whether indoors or out and wind speed is obviously a factor for outdoor pools.
So why not use a traditional material pool blanket?
Traditional material pool covers have a number of inherent disadvantages;
- They can only be applied to square or oblong pools
- Health & Safety require they be fixed, so are expensive
- Evaporation can still occur at the edges
- Less hygienic - Bacterial growth means regular cleaning
- They require labour to remove & re-deploy each day
- They sustain damage easily
- They are usually not biodegradable
- Their manufacture is usually not eco-friendly
- They requires special disposal due to materials used
- Their rollers are unsightly
- The pool cannot be used 24/7/365
The mono molecular layer
Heatsavr works by forming a mono molecular layer between the pools surface and the atmosphere around the pool. This layer helps to dramatically lower evaporation, which reduces pool heat loss.
This mono molecular layer, also known as a solar pool cover, is invisible and undetectable by pool users and is PH neutral, odourless, tasteless and leaves no residue on skin. With regular dosing of the product, this cover is ever present and working while the pool is calm, helping to retain the heat in your pool 24/7/365.
The pool can be used as normal without any adverse effects on its bathers. The cover is disturbed while the pool is in use, but it quickly reforms once the water becomes calm.
The scientific view
Scientists have known for more than 5 decades, that a 1 molecule thick layer, spread evenly over a pool helps to reduce evaporation and heat loss. Until the advent of Heatsavr, no one could create a substance which was cost effective, biodegradable, that spread quickly, spread evenly and reformed rapidly after disturbance.
Heatsavr is made from ingredients which are lighter than water giving them the ability to float to the surface. The mono molecular particles are attracted to each other, so once on the surface, they quickly form an invisible cover where they prefer to have their feet in the water and their heads in the air. They are 500 times smaller than the openings in the highest quality filters, so will not affect the operation of the filtration system.
The product is biodegradable with a half life of two days which means that after two days, half of the product will have degraded, and within four days, all of the product will have dissipated.
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