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What heat recovery actually saves on a tunnel oven

8 April 2026 Applications Engineering 5 min read

Recovery payback depends on run hours and make-up air volume, not on the size of the oven. The arithmetic is short.

Heat recovery on a tunnel oven preheats make-up air with exhaust that would otherwise leave the building.

The saving scales with run hours and with how much make-up air the plant moves — not with oven length. A short oven in a three-shift plant pays back faster than a long oven running one shift.

Bring us your run hours and your air volumes and we will do the arithmetic before you specify.

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