Water and energy recovery, authorised Australian dealer
Between 25 and 40 percent of the energy used in a commercial laundry goes into heating water, and almost all of it leaves through the drain. AquaTherm recovers 60 to 90 percent of that energy and puts it straight back into the incoming cold supply, cutting a typical laundry's total energy bill by around 25 percent. Aqualogic is the authorised AquaTherm dealer in Australia, supplying and supporting the core four systems: Micro, Midi, Maxi and Monster.
Sizes in this range
Pick the model that matches your load. Full specifications for each are further down this page, and our team will confirm the right size for your site.
Talk to a specialist
Tell us how your laundry runs and we'll come back with the right models, the running costs and a firm price. Every enquiry sent from this page is tagged to the AquaTherm Heat Recovery Range so nothing gets lost in translation.
60-90%
Of waste water energy recovered and reused
~25%
Average reduction in total laundry energy bill
20-30%
Shorter drying times from hot rinsing
6-18 mths
Typical payback on the investment
If you stop energy and water leaving the building, you never have to buy them again. Every AquaTherm system shares the same DNA: industry leading heat recovery, precise control, and a design that runs for years without cleaning or routine maintenance.
At the heart of every unit is a unique stainless steel tube formed internally and externally into a double helix. It keeps waste water in high turbulence, which stops lint and dirt sticking and lifts heat transfer by 75 percent compared with plain tube.
Up to 1,200 metres of tube carries waste water through the exchanger while fresh water flows around the outside of every tube in perfect counter flow, transferring up to 90 percent of the available energy in minutes.
Laundry effluent is a cocktail of chemicals, dirt, lint and fibre that blocks conventional exchangers. Controlled velocity and turbulence keep AquaTherm clear, with no cleaning schedule and no sophisticated pre-filtration required.
Every unit is designed to be connected online from the factory for remote monitoring and support. Flows, temperatures, performance and cost savings are displayed transparently and retained in memory.
Hotter rinse water means less moisture retained after extraction. A drier load, heated all the way through, dries faster, which lifts output and saves energy a second time in the dryer.
The core four cover everything from a boutique on-premise laundry at 1,000 litres per hour to a multi-module tunnel plant well past 100,000 litres per hour, using the same proven exchanger technology.
How it works
Every kilowatt used in a laundry is eventually lost to the drain or the atmosphere, and has to be bought again as new energy. AquaTherm intercepts the hot waste water on its way out and uses it to preheat the incoming cold process water, reducing the steam or gas demand for washing to a small fraction of what it was.
The engineering
Shell and tube is the most efficient way to move heat between two liquids without contact. The reason most laundries never installed one is that laundry water blocks them. AquaTherm solved that with tube geometry rather than filtration.
The tube
Every AquaTherm tube is formed internally and externally into a double helix. That shape is the whole secret: it holds the waste water in constant turbulence, so lint and chemical residue never settle on the tube wall and the exchanger never needs opening up.
The range
All AquaTherm models share the same DNA and design principles, with industry leading rates of heat recovery and precision control. The difference between them is simply how much water your laundry puts through them each hour.
The business case
Heat recovery is not only an energy line item. It shortens cycles, unblocks the dryer bottleneck, reduces boiler loading and improves linen quality, which is why payback lands between six and eighteen months in most Australian laundries.
Before you buy
Every laundry is different, so the optimum solution is rarely obvious. The AquaTherm Simulator models your site across ten key areas, then we reconcile the modelled result against your actual utility bills before running what-if scenarios. It is a free service and it is the honest way to decide whether a system is worth installing at all.
Installation
The AquaTherm Micro is a fully packaged water and energy system: fresh and waste buffer tanks, control panel, level sensors, flow valves, temperature sensors and waste pumps, all pre-wired and tested. Floor space is minimal and configurable, so even a crowded plant room can take one.
All four share the same exchanger technology and control philosophy. The right one is determined by your hourly water flow, not by the size of your building.
| Model | Flow range | Best suited to | Configuration | Maintenance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Micro | 1,000 to 10,000 L/h | Smaller commercial and on-premise laundries | Fully packaged plug and play with integrated buffer tanks | None routine |
| Midi | 7,000 to 17,000 L/h | Mainstream commercial laundries, the bestselling unit | Exchanger plus two separate external buffer tanks | None routine |
| Maxi | 17,000 to 27,000 L/h | High output tunnel washer plants and high demand washer extractor rooms | Same format as Midi with nearly 1km of spiral tube | None routine |
| Monster | 27,000 L/h and up, in modules | Large multi-line plants and industrial laundries | Modular: 27,000, 54,000, 81,000, 108,000 L/h and beyond | None routine |
Flow ranges overlap deliberately. Where your laundry sits between two models, we size on peak hourly flow and future growth, not average consumption.
Most installations need nothing more than the unit itself. These options solve specific site problems where they exist.
| Option | What it does | When you need it |
|---|---|---|
| Steam or electric post heating | Tops up recovered water to final wash temperature | When you want to remove the central hot water system entirely |
| Post heat recovery filtration | Filters water after recovery, cutting effluent charges and reuse volumes | Where trade waste charges are high or water reuse is the goal, can cut consumption by a third |
| Aquascreen rotary screen filtration | Removes debris and coarse material before it reaches pumps | Where lint and solids risk blocking pumps and pits |
| Insulated tanks and scavenger pumps | Stores waste water without losing the heat you are trying to recover | Where waste currently sits in an uninsulated pit or underfloor drain |
| pH control | Keeps effluent inside the consent limits set by the water authority | Where temperature, pH or solids limits carry financial penalties |
| Aquasteam | Uses recovered warm water with steam injection so process water arrives already heated | Where the laundry runs on cold water and live steam rather than a conventional hot water system, lifting productivity |
Options are specified from the simulator output, so you only pay for what actually improves the result.
Aqualogic supplies, installs and supports the full AquaTherm range across Australia. We will model your laundry with the simulator first, show you the real numbers against your own bills, and only recommend a system if the payback stacks up.
Make an EnquiryBetween 60 and 90 percent of the energy in your waste water, depending on your temperatures and flows. Across a whole site that typically reduces total energy consumption by around 25 percent. The simulator gives you a site-specific figure before you commit to anything.
Most installations repay the investment in six to eighteen months once energy, water, drying time and productivity gains are counted together. Sites with high gas or trade waste costs sit at the faster end of that range.
No. That is exactly the problem AquaTherm was engineered around. The double helix tube keeps waste water in a state of high turbulence so solids stay in suspension rather than settling on the tube wall, which is why the systems run without cleaning or routine maintenance.
It is decided by peak hourly water flow. Micro covers 1,000 to 10,000 litres per hour, Midi 7,000 to 17,000, Maxi 17,000 to 27,000 and Monster starts at 27,000 and scales in modules. We measure or model your flow rather than guessing from machine count.
The Micro is genuinely plug and play: position it, connect water, electricity and compressed air, locate the scavenger pumps and it runs. Midi and Maxi need buffer tanks positioned and connected. Monster is modular and needs more planning, which we handle as part of the project.
Yes. Because the heat is stripped out before the water leaves, effluent goes to drain only a few degrees above the incoming cold supply, which keeps you clear of temperature penalties. pH control and filtration options are available where consent limits also cover pH and solids.
You can, but many laundries find recovered heat cheaper than low temperature chemical programs. With AquaTherm you can wash at 85 degrees or higher without the usual energy penalty, then trade that back for shorter process times or reduced chemical dosing.
Yes. Aqualogic is the authorised AquaTherm dealer in Australia, covering supply, installation, commissioning and ongoing service and monitoring support.
