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Radiator reflector panels being installed behind a domestic radiator A radiator reflector is a thin sheet or foil applied to the wall behind, and closely spaced from, a domestic heating radiator . The intention is to reduce heat losses into the wall by reflecting radiant heat away from the wall.
In a steam heating system, each room is equipped with a radiator which is connected to a source of low-pressure steam (a boiler). Steam entering the radiator condenses and gives up its latent heat, returning to liquid water. The radiator in turn heats the air of the room, and provides some direct radiant heat. The condensate water returns to ...
Electric heat can be accurately applied at the precise point needed in a process, at high concentration of power per unit area or volume. Electric heating devices can be built in any required size and can be located anywhere within a plant. Electric heating processes are generally clean, quiet, and do not emit much byproduct heat to the ...
A radiator is a device that transfers heat to a medium primarily through thermal radiation.In practice, the term radiator is often applied to any number of devices in which a fluid circulates through exposed pipes (often with fins or other means of increasing surface area), notwithstanding that such devices tend to transfer heat mainly by convection and might logically be called convectors.
The radiators and steam supply pipes are pitched so that gravity eventually takes this condensate back down through the steam supply piping to the boiler where it can once again be turned into steam and returned to the radiators. Despite its name, a radiator does not primarily heat a room by radiation.
Thermoelectric cooling uses the Peltier effect to create a heat flux at the junction of two different types of materials. A Peltier cooler, heater, or thermoelectric heat pump is a solid-state active heat pump which transfers heat from one side of the device to the other, with consumption of electrical energy, depending on the direction of the current.
All electrically resistant heaters are 100% efficient at converting incoming electric energy into heat. However, since most of an oil heater's main electricity is produced by coal, oil, or gas generators with ~30% efficiency, electric heat is often less efficient and more expensive than combustion heaters (which directly convert oil or gas to ...
Mehdi Sadaghdar (/ ˈ m ɛ d iː s ə ˈ d æ ɡ ˌ d ɑːr / MEH-dee sə-DAG-dar; [2] Persian: مهدی صدقدار, romanized: Mehdī Ṣadaqdār, IPA: [meɦd̪iː sæd̪æʁd̪ɒːɾ]; born 13 January 1977) [3] is an Iranian-Canadian [4] electrical engineer who hosts the comedic educational YouTube channel ElectroBOOM.