Heating/cooling walls and ceilings
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing radiant heat transfer systems for heating or cooling rooms suffer from energy loss, temperature regulation difficulties, and high inertia, with inadequate heat diffusion and inefficient contact between metal diffusion plates and tubes.
Innovation Solution
A radiant heat transfer system using stainless steel plates with serpentine flow channels and laser-welded connections, featuring direct contact with the heat transfer fluid and surface texturing to enhance heat exchange, allowing for quick and easy installation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Area of stationary object
If metal diffusion plates are combined with tubes fixed to the ceiling, then heat transfer surface is increased, but heat diffusion efficiency deteriorates due to poor contact between plates and tubes
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the tube and diffusion plate into a single integrated unit where the tube is embedded within the plate structure. This eliminates the contact interface between separate components, ensuring continuous heat transfer from the circulating fluid through the tube wall directly into the plate material, thereby resolving the heat diffusion efficiency problem while maintaining large heat transfer surface area.
2Ease of manufacture
If traditional tube networks are used in plasterboard or lime plates, then installation is straightforward, but energy loss increases and temperature regulation becomes difficult due to high inertia
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs a composite structure combining metal tube and metal plate materials, creating a unit with optimized thermal properties. The metal-metals interface ensures superior thermal conductivity compared to traditional plasterboard encasements, reducing energy loss and thermal inertia while maintaining ease of installation through the pre-integrated design that requires no complex assembly on-site.
3Area of stationary object
If fins are added to tubes to increase heat transfer, then heat exchange surface is expanded, but device complexity and installation difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
Rather than adding fins as separate attachments to tubes, the patent integrates the heat exchange surface directly into the plate structure itself. The plate acts as the primary heat transfer surface, eliminating the need for additional fin structures and reducing overall device complexity while maintaining effective heat exchange area.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The system achieves high energy performance and comfort with uniform temperature distribution, low inertia, and reduced maintenance, utilizing any heat transfer fluid, including water, with improved heat exchange efficiency up to 30% compared to untreated panels.
Implementation Method 1
a flow channel arranged in a serpentine manner between the first plate and the second plate for the passage of an energy transferring heat transfer fluid
Implementation Method 2
These heat transfer systems work by radiation
Data Source
AI summary
A radiant heat transfer system for heating or cooling a room, has at least one heat exchange element in the form of a panel formed by a first plate and a second plate, the first and second plates being symmetrically profiled to form a flow channel arranged in a serpentine manner between the first and second plates for passage of a heat transfer fluid, wherein the first and second plates are pressed steel plates and are connected to each other by welding over the entire surface of the contact areas between the first and second plates, wherein the connection between the plates is made by laser welding, and wherein a surface texture obtained by laser treatment is present on the surface in contact with the heat transfer liquid of at least one of the first and second plates to increase the heat transfer.