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  2. Underfloor heating - Wikipedia

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    There is a likelihood that underfloor heating may add to offgassing and sick building syndrome in an environment, particularly when the carpet is used as flooring. [citation needed] Electric underfloor heating systems cause low frequency magnetic fields (in the 50–60 Hz range), old 1-wire systems much more so than modern 2-wire systems.

  3. Underfloor air distribution - Wikipedia

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    The ground floor with a slab on grade has less temperature rise compared to middle and top floors, and an increase of the supply air temperature causes a decrease in the temperature rise. The temperature rise is not significantly affected by the perimeter zone orientation, the internal heat gain and the window-to-wall ratio. [16]

  4. Stable and unstable stratification - Wikipedia

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    In engineering applications, stable stratification or convection may or may not be desirable. In either case it may be deliberately manipulated. Stratification can strongly affect the mixing of fluids, [5] which is important in many manufacturing processes. Underfloor heating deliberately creates unstable stratification of the air in a room.

  5. Thermal destratification - Wikipedia

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    The study indicates that stratified buildings tend to overheat or overcool based on the temperature at the thermostat, which tends to be lower than the overall heat energy present in the room. The study also showed that energy waste due to stratification was present at ceiling heights ranging from 20 ft. to 40 ft, and higher ceilings caused ...

  6. Radiant heating and cooling - Wikipedia

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    The lower temperatures and large surface area of underfloor heating systems make them ideal heat emitters for air source heat pumps, evenly and effectively radiating the heat energy from the system into rooms within a home. The maximum temperature of the heating surface can vary from 29–35 °C (84–95 °F) depending on the room type.

  7. Hypocaust - Wikipedia

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    Hypocaust under the floor in a Roman villa in Vieux-la-Romaine, near Caen, France. A hypocaust (Latin: hypocaustum) is a system of central heating in a building that produces and circulates hot air below the floor of a room, and may also warm the walls with a series of pipes through which the hot air passes.

  8. Newton's law of cooling - Wikipedia

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    This final simplest version of the law, given by Newton himself, was partly due to confusion in Newton's time between the concepts of heat and temperature, which would not be fully disentangled until much later. [3] In 2020, Maruyama and Moriya repeated Newton's experiments with modern apparatus, and they applied modern data reduction ...

  9. Thermal stress - Wikipedia

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    This is a combination of a large temperature gradient due to low thermal conductivity, in addition to rapid change in temperature on brittle materials. The change in temperature causes stresses on the surface that are in tension, which encourages crack formation and propagation. Ceramics materials are usually susceptible to thermal shock. [2 ...