Hand Drying Takes Off With The Xlerator
The Xlerator hand dryer from Excel Inc. might well change the way people think about hand dryers. One of the reasons people still prefer to use paper towels is that they simply dry hands faster than the average hand dryer. However, with the new Xlerator, you can watch your hands go from dripping wet to dry in just 10-15 seconds – not much longer than you’d spend drying your hands with traditional paper towels. What’s more, the Xlerator hand dryer uses only a fifth of the energy of conventional dryers, making it a more efficient alternative not only to other conventional hand dryers, but to paper towels, too.
Conventional automatic hand dryers take about 30-45 seconds to fully dry your hands, which, for a lot of people, is just a bit too long. Even if you’re willing to stand for a hand drying marathon of this length, odds are you still won’t get your hands completely dried, as moisture clings to the webbing between your fingers. With the Xlerator on the other hand, you’ll have completely dry hands in about a third of that time – saving you time as well as electric consumption. Indeed, even running for the same length of time as a traditional electric hand dryer, the Xlerator typically draws on only 1.4 kilowatts of electricity, 80% less than the 2.3 kilowatts of your average conventional hand dryer.
Compare this cost with that of paper towels. In terms of energy use, each paper towel requires the actuation of 743 kilojoules - that, believe it or not, is the net energy required for the processing and production of that one strip of paper. Hand dryers on the other hand require only 76 kilojoules per use – that’s a difference in energy efficiency of nearly 900 percent! Aside from that, the Xlerator hand dryer is a one-time purchase, single install investment, requiring far less labor and maintenance. You don’t need to pay for someone to refill the dispensers or clean up the mess of paper towels people leave behind. For paper towels, these days you’re liable to pay around $15-$30 (or more) per case, whereas you’ll need to pay as little as 1/10th of a cent per day to run the Xlerator – that’s a saving of as much as 99.9 percent!
Of course, the Xlerator is not the first to use high velocity air to dry hands, but it’s the only one that that combines this technology with hot air (proven to be lab safe), leaving the skin of your hands warm and dry when you walk away. The only downside to this perhaps is the loud sound produced by the airflow, which can noise levels as high as 90 decibels. However, this can be easily reduced by increasing the distance from your hands and the hand dryer. This, counter-intuitively, also reduces the time it takes for your hands to dry. .
With your choice of chip resistant, white epoxy paint or electroplated chrome case, the Xlerator hand dryer is easy to install and maintain. It also fits inconspicuously into the restroom design in most public washrooms around the world, be they in schools, hospitals, airports, restaurants, stadiums, cinemas, health clubs, offices, or hotels.
The Xlerator hand dryer is probably the best alternative for hand drying mainly because of the lesser impact it has on the environment as well as the convenience it presents to the users. Aside from being three times fast than conventional hand dryers, it is also, to reiterate, 99 percent less costly to maintain and with 80 less the environment impact of paper hand towels – even excluding the impact of paper towels on water pollution, resource depletion and waste disposal. It seems that, with the advent of technologies like the acceleration, it really is not too hasty to conclude that it’s time to throw in the towel.
