Turn the heat your site already rejects into useful energy.
Manufacturing lines, data centres, cooling plant and many other processes throw heat away all day. Our commercial heat-recovery systems capture that energy and put it back to work — as space heating, hot water or process pre-heat on the same site.
From waste stream to working heat, in four steps.
Heat recovery captures thermal energy that would otherwise be lost and repurposes it for heating, hot water or pre-heating on the same site.
Waste heat is identified
Manufacturing, data centres, cooling systems and many other processes generate excess heat as a by-product. We survey the site to find it.
A heat pump captures it
A MasterTherm ground source or air source heat pump absorbs the waste thermal energy through a heat exchanger.
Temperature is lifted
The compressor raises the recovered heat to a usable 35–80°C — suitable for space heating, hot water or process pre-heat.
Energy is used or stored
The recovered energy feeds heating, hot water or pre-heating. Surplus heat can be held in thermal storage, such as a buffer tank, for later use where the system is designed for it.
Specialist units built for recovery duty.
Alongside our standard range, MasterTherm's AquaMaster models are designed specifically for heat recovery, handling wider conditions than a standard ground source heat pump.
- AquaMaster 52kW and 78kW
Purpose-built recovery units achieving a Coefficient of Performance (COP) of up to 6.5 at W40/W65 — 6.5kW of useful heat per kW of electricity at that operating point.
- Wide operating envelope
Source inlet temperatures from 0–45°C, load outlet temperatures of 35–80°C.
- Cascade configurations
Multiple units combine for capacities beyond 1,000kW.
- Remote monitoring
Smart controls and remote supervision through MasterTherm Online.
Wherever a site heats and cools, there is heat to recover.
MasterTherm’s heat-recovery equipment is designed for commercial and industrial duties. We assess the source, demand and operating temperatures for each proposed installation.
Manufacturing & processing
Process lines, compressors and cooling water reject heat continuously — a steady source for space heating and process pre-heat.
Data centres & server rooms
IT loads reject heat around the clock. Recovery is designed around the cooling duty, never at its expense.
Explore data centresFood, drink & breweries
Refrigeration, brewing and food production create warm streams that can pre-heat water the same processes then consume.
Metal, chemical & plastics
Galvanic treatment, chemical processes and plastics production run hot — recovered heat offsets the energy they buy back in.
Agriculture & milking parlours
Milk cooling is a textbook recovery source: the heat taken out of milk becomes the hot water the parlour needs for washing down.
Hotels & office buildings
Kitchens, laundries and server rooms reject heat while bedrooms and hot-water systems demand it — often at the same hour.
Mine-water heat recovery.
At Lindsay near Ammanford, the Mining Remediation Authority developed Wales’s first commercial mine-water heat scheme in partnership with Thermal Earth, with Innovate UK funding. Submerged heat exchangers recover heat for our industrial unit and offices.
It is the same discipline as any recovery project: characterise the source, match it to a real demand, and lift the temperature only as far as the demand requires.
Explore mine-water heat recoveryHeat recovery, answered.
Part of our commercial capability
Heat recovery sits alongside heating, cooling and system design in one accountable commercial team.
Explore commercial systemsEvery cooling load is a heat source
Cooling and recovery are two sides of the same system — the heat you reject is the heat you could reuse.
Explore cooling systemsShow us what your site throws away.
Tell us what rejects heat, what could use it, and the temperatures and hours involved. Our engineers will tell you whether recovery stacks up — and what to measure next.