Sistemas calefección con gas natural para calentar grandes espacios de forma eficiente

Efficiently heating large spaces or industrial warehouses is complicated, as a great deal of energy is lost from heating unnecessary areas. Natural gas radiant panel and tube heaters provide an efficient solution to this problem as they allow the heat to be focused on a specific area, thus maximising the energy without needing to heat the whole space.

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Efficiency and economic savings

Natural gas heating systems are highly efficient, as they directly heat the people, objects and spaces. The heating is controlled using a thermostat that detects the difference between the inside temperature and that set to maintain the comfort temperature.

In addition, they offer significant energy savings, of 30% upwards compared to other traditional systems.

At present, natural gas is the least polluting fossil fuel and the most affordable. It also has a large distribution network that means the solution can be quickly adapted.

How does radiant heating work?

The best way to understand how radiant heating works is to use the simile of solar radiation

Imagine a winter’s day, with a clear sky and an ambient temperature of under 0ºC. If you are in the sun’s rays, you feel good and start to feel warmer, and you may even have to take a layer of clothing off. But if the sun is clouded over, you will immediately begin to feel to cold again and if you want to maintain your body heat, you will have to wrap up again.

Advantages for spaces with a large air volume

Radiant systems offer many advantages, both technical and financial, compared to convection heating systems in industrial warehouses, storehouses, sports complexes, shopping malls, centres of worship, etc., which are more than 4 m high, i.e., in spaces that have a large air volume.

On the other hand, installing those systems is very straightforward, and easily adapts to each customer’s needs.

Heating techniques and scope of application

There are two heating techniques that are, mainly, used to heat those spaces with a large air volume:

• Convection heating or hot air heating
• Radiant heating

Either of those two techniques can be used. The main difference between them is the method used to transmit the heat from the heating system to the space to be heated. Therefore, if the aim is efficiency, you have to choose the one that best adapts to the characteristics and needs of each specific space.

Convection heating

The technique works by heating the air volume of the space to be heated. Therefore, there is a heat transmitting element. When it comes into contact with this element, the air heats and circulates in a natural or forced way. The difference is thus made between natural convection (radiators) and forced convection (aerothermics).

Radiant heating

This second technique works by producing a hot body by means of the emission of electromagnetic radiation.

The radiation is transmitted in a straight line and transforms into heat when it comes into contact with different surfaces (walls, machinery, tools, floor, people…), without directly heating the air of the space. In this case, the air is heated by coming into contact with those hot surfaces, i.e. by indirect convection.