HEATING > HEATERS - HEAT PUMPS
HIGH TEMPERATURE HEATERS
They are normally used when there is already a heaters system (centralized or independent), and the customer wants to enlarge the building, heating it with radiant floors: in this case a mixing valve needs to be installed in order to lower from 70-80°C to 30-40°C the water temperature. Other companies that produce radiant floors are bound to electro-welded grids or insulating panels with bulging mushrooms; so, since they can’t use Deltasolar’s patented system, they cannot place the right amount of piping in the bathrooms.
For this reason they have to use high temperature heaters to heat the heating furniture, and then use mixing valves to decrease the water temperature to be used in their radiant floors. This choice leads to higher costs due to the complexity of the system, which requires independent lines from the thermal unit to the heating furniture, mixing valves and a higher managing cost due to the high temperature.
LOW TEMPERATURE CONDENSATION HEATERS (ON THE WALLS OR ON THE FLOOR)
An optimal type of heaters for radiant floors is the condensation heater, which retrieves the latent heat of exhaust gases, providing a 110% performance. Furthermore, the fumes released in the atmosphere are clean and at a temperature of about 40-50°C, rather than 140°C released by traditional heaters. The lower is the temperature used the higher is the condensation rate: over 1 liter for any cube meter of methane when Deltasolar’s radiant floors are used. Some companies build non-condensation heaters that can work with temperatures above 35C°: these are more economical but they don’t have the same advantages of the condensation ones. Moreover, the same heater can provide at the same time hot water either on demand or store it in a tank, necessary for baths or Jacuzzis or when there is the need to use hot water by more than one person at the same time.
With Deltasolar’s technology, radiant floors are installed also in the bathrooms, and the potential integration is done through a piece of thermal furniture working at low temperature. The pipes don’t need to come from the thermal unit, but, through independent pipes, from the same manifold used by the radiant floors. It will work perfectly and it will save in installation and usage.
BIOMASS HEATERS
They are those working with wood, corn or other natural materials. They can work alone or connected to traditional heaters; they need to be completed with a tank and some technical precautions in order to have a perfect installation. There are different types of biomass heaters, and they are fueled with wood chunks, pallets, corn and other organic materials.
They can work on a daily load or fully automatically. To use them with radiant floors, they require a mixing valve.
AIR-WATER HEATING PUMPS
They are steamrollers that heat part of the system and cool down another part of it – similarly to the process of a fridge – by compressing gas, such as Freon. During winter they can heat radiant floors by cooling down the air, while during summer they cool and dehumidify the environments (heating the air).