INFRARED RADIATION

The sun is the most ancient and known source of radiated heat.
Every day, by means of the sun, we are in contact with infrared waves which heat the environment surrounding us.
The sun gets its energy from infrared rays contained in its core. In opposition to UV rays, the infrared rays bring benefit for the health. An ever-increasing number of incubators is also equipped with infrared heating systems to warm newborn babies.
Another heating waves system is the old tiled stove. The best place to build one is near the inside wall of a room so that it can irradiate as much heat as possible on the entire surface of the external wall. The intense heat  irradiation of the stove warms up the inside surface of the external wall, so to increase the surface temperature, however leaving the environment cool.
The radiating panels are the innovation.
No more wood but electrical energy to have the sun at home every day.
Only materials that satisfy the highest qualitative requirements of durability and environmental compatibility are used for the construction of the panels.

DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE CONVECTIVE HEATING AND THE RADIANT HEATING

Unlike the principle of convection, the radiant heat (radiating panels system)
transfers the energy not through the air but through electromagnetic waves, so that the air between the heat conductor and the beneficiary does not warm up. In the majority of cases the human body prefers the radiated heat ( also called thermal radiation) to the heat produced through convection.
Many people wrongly believe that the sensation of warmth or cold depends exclusively on the temperature of the air in a room. An experiment made at the John B. Pierce Laboratory, USA, clarifies better the goal of an intelligent heating system: a group of people in a room with a temperature of  50°C produced by hot air and cooled walls felt very cold; while the same group of people in a room with a temperature of 10°C and warm walls began to perspire.
As a proof of what has been said let us give here an example drawn from nature: skiers and climbers do not freeze, although the air surrounding them is very cold.

PHYSICAL WELLNESS

The infrared heating waves which are transmitted from the panels hit an object in the room (a wall, the ceiling,  the pavement, the furniture) which can absorb or reflect them: the waves that are reflected may hit another object until they are completely absorbed.
To understand the spreading of the infrared heating waves let us compare them to little bouncing balls thrown in a room. These will begin to spring everywhere, and every time they will hit a certain object they will lose a part of their energy. The bouncing balls ( infrared heating waves) will leap everywhere until their energy will run out and therefore be accumulated in the environment.
First the heating waves warm the upper layer of the wall and then the energy is largely irradiated again in the environment. Only 1/6 of the energy passes through the wall getting dispersed.
You can feel more at your ease thanks to the combination of a lower temperature in the environment, a higher temperature of the walls and a lower permanence of dust and humidity in the air. It is worth noting that the air which is going to be breathed in this kind of environment will be fresher, drier, and will contain a small amount of dust. This is the basic requirement for a healthy and light breathing. These remarkable advantages can be noticed in every kind of environment: in a living room, in a bedroom , in an office, etc.

INFRARED PANEL ( INFRARED ELECTRORADIATOR)

This new heating product knocks down the cost of domestic heating, particularly in Italy, where the high cost of fuel ( methane, gas oil, electricity) - one of the highest in the world-  causes heating fees to weigh considerably upon every family budget. For this reason it’s a valuable alternative to the traditional gas or gas-oil systems.

THE INFRARED ELECTRORADIATOR
It's a new generation of home appliances.

The technology used to manufacture the INFRARED ELECTRORADIATOR  is the result of the conversion of military/ space technology for the realization of civil-use products. The resistor is applied on the aluminium forepart; the middle part, made of a mineral, amplifies the heat; the brackets and the electric case with luminous switch are applied on the metallic back part. The whole is contained in an aluminium frame.
At the present time, every heating device uses resistors made of nichrome, a material of limited duration and high resistivity, sure enough to reach quickly the incandescence point causing a high energy consumption (electrical energy), as a matter of fact the common ventilated electrical stoves have a 2kW input!
The heating element of the INFRARED ELECTRORADIATOR is not made of nichrome, in its stead distributed electrical heaters are used, which have the power of dispensing heat homogenously on a surface.

The main advantage of distributed electrical heaters compared to hot nichrome wires lies in the creation of the homogenous thermal range with the least specific thermal power for object heated.

The use of special fireproof materials, which resist to high temperatures and to sudden thermal changes, allows to manufacture theoretically everlasting heaters.

The efficiency and the emitted temperature coefficient are very high, considering the low loss of heat in the transmission -through the dielectric- from the heating element to the object heated.

The electro-conductive and heating layer can be applied directly on the surface of the heating unit, thus allowing a reduction of electrical energy consumption and at the same time the greatest heating irradiation.

The PTF TECHNOLOGY - Polymer Thick Film - is a system for the production of resistors based on the screen-printing with electroconductive inks, obtained by mixing particular kinds of resins and pigments.

The desired temperature is reached uniformly on the whole surface in a short time and with low energy consumption.

PTC INKS - Positive Temperature Coefficient -
It's about inks which permit to screen-print resistors which are not constant to the variation of temperature, but increase little by little as the temperature raises.
In practice, this means that the higher the temperature gets, the more the developed heat would decrease. This characteristic is very important on all accounts, among which that of safety: these kinds of resistors are intrinsically self-limiting. With a saving up to 12% less than the nominal consumption.

Another feature is that with this kind of resistor imagination has no boundaries (mirrors, tables, kitchen tops,  bathrooms, trays, wardrobes etc.) its flexibility applies to every kind of surface without having to carry out  grooves or carvings, since the polyester sheets are flexible and adhesive.