![]() Much like the previous issue of unequal heat transfer, expansion problems are also a result of the naturally occurring scientific properties of water and heat. Getting the most out of your baseboard hot water heating system often means going through a trial and error stage that involves adjusting everything from your water flow to your floor plan. Sometimes something as benign as an item of furniture being in the wrong spot will cause it to absorb heat and impact the temperature of the entire room. However, these adjustments aren't always limited to the baseboard heater system itself. To ensure equal heating in all areas, a certain amount of adjustments have to be made. One common solution to this issue is to control the flow and quantity of water that is allowed to reach the first radiator in the series, allowing the quantity for successive radiators to increase progressively. As such, you'd expect the first radiator to experience the maximum heat and the last heater on the path to receive water that is markedly less hot. This means that rather than each room having its own unique line to the boiler, all the water travels along a common path to each room. Quite often the pipes or radiators are installed in rooms arranged in series. They are simply the unavoidable drawbacks that come bundled with this sort of heating process, though they do have clever workarounds you can employ. To be clear, neither of these circumstances are malfunctions or result from misuse. These are some of the issues that your may run into when using a baseboard hot water heater. The functioning of the boiler is connected to thermostats in the room or rooms being heated and when the temperature reading on these thermostats are increased a signal is sent which heats up the boiler and activates the pump to send water to the area demanding the heat. The quantity of water in baseboard hot water heating systems needs to be kept at a constant volume, and any loss of water has to be compensated from an overhead tank that contains the water storage. This radiator type structure is similar to the construction of radiators you would find in automobiles. The hot water pipes on these baseboard heaters are typically made of copper and are uniquely fin-shaped to ensure faster dissipation of heat from the surface of the pipe. The heat from this hot water is transferred to the room, and once the heat transfer has cooled the water down again, it's piped back to the boiler room, replaced by a fresh influx of hot water, and reheated. The hot water is pumped through a system of pipes that are installed in the baseboard. ![]() ![]() The hot water in the system is obtained from a boiler in a utility room, and this boiler is heated by gas, oil, or electricity. There was less extreme variation in room temperatures from ceiling to floor with Glassheat than with electric baseboard heat.If the idea of using water to heat the air in a room still seems odd to you, the following information should clue you in on how hydronic baseboard heaters work and how to deal with any problems that could arise.With Glassheat heating the heat distribution was about 31% better (more uniform) than with electric baseboard heat.In general, the smaller the room area the more energy efficient the Glassheat heating system when compared to electric baseboard heat.Glassheat reduced the watts used per day from 11% to 61% when compared to electric baseboard heat.Glassheat heating reduced the average heating cycle time from 54% to 68% when compared to electric baseboard heating.In addition, the Glassheat system provided more uniform heat distribution throughout the study areas than did the electric baseboard system.Ī summary of results from the observations obtained during the study is provided below: Under control conditions (as documented in the report) the Glassheat heating system was found to be much more energy efficient than the electric baseboard heating system. ![]() The study was designed to compare a Glassheat electric radiant heating system with a comparable electric baseboard heating system. Case study about electric baseboard heating system ![]()
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