Everyday savings with hot air

Fawn Litchfield of Mitsubishi Electric explains how organisations can make 100- 1000 small savings every day with Jet Towel hand dryers.

Flushing and hand washing will use notable amounts of water, while lights may be left on permanently when the washroom is only occupied for only a fraction of time. But the biggest potential saving is said to be almost certainly in hand drying.

Jet Towel was developed in Japan in 1993 and works differently from a conventional hot air dryer. Instead of using heat to evaporate water from the hands it blasts the droplets off using a high speed blast of air.

Typically it takes 10 seconds for Jet Towel to do its work, compared to 30+ seconds for a hot air unit. Based on 200 uses a day a Jet Towel will consume 0.4kW of electrical energy, costing 0.04 a day, compared to 4.0kW and 0.40 for a standard dryer.This gives an energy saving of 3.6kW and a cost saving of 0.36, when comparing the new technology with the old.