environments they are designed to heat or cool. There are many subcategories of radiant heating and cooling, including: "radiant ceiling panels", "embedded surface...
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Underfloor heating and cooling is a form of central heating and cooling that achieves indoor climate control for thermal comfort using hydronic or electrical...
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Heat exchanger (redirect from Heating coil)
used to transfer heat between a source and a working fluid. Heat exchangers are used in both cooling and heating processes. The fluids may be separated...
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Electric heating Fan coil unit Glossary of HVAC terms Head-end power Hotel electric power Mechanical engineering Outdoor wood-fired boiler Radiant cooling Sick...
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District cooling is the cooling equivalent of district heating. Working on broadly similar principles to district heating, district cooling delivers chilled...
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separate electrical supply. Also known as "radiant heat", underfloor heating uses a network of pipes, tubing or heating cables, buried in or attached beneath...
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automation and control systems for applications such as heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning control (HVAC), lighting control, access control, and fire...
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2015-01-15. "History of Radiant Heating & Cooling Systems" (PDF). Healthyheating.com. Retrieved 2016-05-19. Donald N., Clark (2000). Culture and Customs of Korea...
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gain prevention) or by removing heat from the building (natural cooling). Natural cooling utilizes on-site energy, available from the natural environment...
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Ground source heat pump (redirect from Geo-thermal heating and cooling)
A ground source heat pump (also geothermal heat pump) is a heating/cooling system for buildings that use a type of heat pump to transfer heat to or from...
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gradients are dissipated. Convection-cooling is sometimes loosely assumed to be described by Newton's law of cooling. Newton's law states that the rate...
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for basements and garages where spot heating is desired. More generally, they are an excellent choice for task-specific heating. Radiant heaters operate...
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Uponor (category 2023 mergers and acquisitions)
Finnish company that sells products for drinking water delivery, radiant heating and cooling. With approximately 3,700 employees, its head office is located...
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a building. Furnaces are mostly used as a major component of a central heating system. Furnaces are permanently installed to provide heat to an interior...
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Ceramic heater (section Heating principle)
aluminium fins, thereby heating the fins. A fan blows air across the fins, cooling the fins as they heat the air. Electric heating elements made of resistance...
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A cooling tower is a device that rejects waste heat to the atmosphere through the cooling of a coolant stream, usually a water stream, to a lower temperature...
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Antifreeze (redirect from Dex-Cool)
processing applications, and can also be used in enclosed spaces. Similar mixtures are commonly used in HVAC and industrial heating or cooling systems as a high-capacity...
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for heating rooms in residential and small commercial settings. They are often mistaken for electric radiators, which are devices that use radiant heating...
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radiative cooling (PDRC) (also passive radiative cooling, daytime passive radiative cooling, radiative sky cooling, photonic radiative cooling, and terrestrial...
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Gas heater (redirect from Gas heating)
gas heaters have been further developed to include units that utilize radiant heat technology, rather than the principles of the Bunsen burner. This...
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systems, hydronic radiant heating and cooling systems, domestic water piping, insulation for high tension (high voltage) electrical cables, and baby play mats...
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Solar thermal collector (redirect from Solar heating)
generator. Flat-plate and evacuated-tube solar collectors are mainly used to collect heat for space heating, domestic hot water, or cooling with an absorption...
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heaters, fireplaces, and solar heating. Heat pumps: They can be used for heating and cooling, transferring heat using refrigerant and electricity, making...
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words θερμός thermos, "hot" and στατός statos, "standing, stationary". A thermostat exerts control by switching heating or cooling devices on or off, or by...
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Infrared heater (redirect from Infrared heating)
As the tube heats, radiant energy from the tube strikes floors and other objects in the area, warming them. This form of heating maintains warmth even...
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needs heat, and uses the same heat pump in reverse to reject heat when it needs cooling. In periods of simultaneous cooling and heating demands this...
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Autonomous building (category Buildings and structures)
which would be comfortable without heating and cooling, which would make its own electricity, collect its own water and deal with its own waste...These houses...
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David Brower Center (category Buildings and structures in Berkeley, California)
systems. The radiant system is used for both heating and cooling. To chill the water in the radiant system, the system makes use of a cooling tower located...
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Hydronics (redirect from Hydronic cooling)
water) as a heat-transfer medium in heating and cooling systems. The name differentiates such systems from oil and refrigerant systems. Historically, in...
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Coolant (redirect from Cooling fluid)
refrigerant. Air is a common form of a coolant. Air cooling uses either convective airflow (passive cooling), or a forced circulation using fans. Hydrogen...
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