Eskimo’s Outline radiators - low water volume
means high energy savings
Outline radiators feature extremely low
water volume – an average Outline
radiator uses only 1/3 of the water of
a standard steel panel radiator and
only 10% of the water required by
cast iron radiators.
Not only do Eskimo’s Outline range of radiators
look beautiful with their clean lines and multitude
of finishes and colours, they also utilise Eskimo’s
unique aluminium heat exchanger “engine” that
provides huge heat output from a deceptively
small, slim package.
What is less well known is that the Outline range
also features extremely low water volume – an
average Outline radiator uses only 1/3 of the water
of a standard steel panel radiator and only 10% of
the water required by cast iron radiators.
“Why do I care about water volume?” you’d be
entitled to say, as after all most people use a
closed system that only needs filling up very rarely,
so it’s worth looking at the physics:
It takes 4.18kW to raise the temperature of 1 litre
of water by 1ºC in 1 second and an average steel
panel radiator has a water volume of at least 5
litres. If you have 10 radiators in your system that’s
50 litres of water that you need to heat to 70ºC
before that radiator starts delivering its rated
performance. It also means about 17.5kW of power
used if you raise that 50 litres of water to
temperature in 10 minutes.
BUT if your radiators only use 1/3rd of the water,
then you use 1/3rd of the power to get the radiators
to temperature, meaning the radiators start
working much more quickly, meaning you don’t
need to program your heating to come on ½ an
hour before you get home, you program it to come
on 10 minutes before you get home – added up
over the course of a year for an average home
that would mean a saving of something like 1606
kw/hours or £190 at current energy prices and a
significant reduction in your carbon footprint.
The other problem with a system having a high
water volume is that it takes a long time to cool
down. We’re all familiar with the vagaries of the
British Climate, rain one minute, sun the next.
That means your heating system has to cope with
huge variations over the course of a day. If your
heating system takes 40 minutes to cool down
when the spring sun comes out your only way of
preventing things getting uncomfortably hot is to
open the window, at which point all that heat you’ve
paid for and which has used up precious natural
resources disappears into the atmosphere.
Radiators used:
Eskimo’s Outline range –
bespoke sizes throughout
Standard sizes also available
in electric models
Radiator Finish:
Powder coated in a bespoke
colour – precisely matched to
a swatch provided by the client
Supermirror
Gong
Brushed
Radiator retail price range:
Between £506 & £2,780 + VAT
depending on size and finish
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www.eskimodesign.co.uk
Outline Radiators - low water volume, Eskimo, December 2011