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High Efficiency HVAC System from Energy Kinetics

Plumbing and heating contractor Frank Iadarola meets with Mike Kaufmann to look at the high-efficiency System 2000. The low mass unit will be used to supply both the heat and hot water for the entire house.
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High Efficiency HVAC System from Energy Kinetics

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" Right now let's join Mike Kaufman who's from energy kinetics in Clinton New Jersey worn by inventors and makers of the system 2000. Gloria very good thanks what do you think this is a pretty impressive installations we've got here practice that are of great job got a great bomber but let's talk about. They yellow box in front of us and all these components because. I don't really understand how works I know if there's gas coming to -- natural gas. And that this system is for providing all the heat and all the domestic hot water that we need here right."

" That's correct what you have is a -- man spoiler. With low water content four gallons of water 190 pounds man it's okay let's review that a -- look what is low mass means. Well -- would be the them out of metal to be heated up. That's actually what makes up the boiler itself OK so it's not like those old boilers that had a huge cast iron. Lamb chops or whatever that's correct OK correct and then the other thing is at least for now or gallons of water isn't that the total content of water inside -- This is our larger boiler do we make us more mortal with -- and -- gallons of water. And then what are some of these components what's this thing here for example this is your external played exchanger to make your domestic hot water when you have is the hot water would come up through a pump away in the circulator on the supply side. With a bypass line going down through the plate exchanger. Which is every other play it is domestic water in every other plate is for the war the so you never touch this is my hot water heater for the whole house that is correct. It fits in the -- I think that's. How can that possibly work. What you've got your maximum thermal transfer between the plates. You're boiling waters going through and you're domestic orders coming in cold in every other plate is heating up he has thermal transfer between it too is allowing for. If it's fifty degree water temperature read it could be a 150 degree water temperature right -- over degree rise going often being stored. Into the top of the 220. Gallon storage tanks you have here for your domestic duties okay at an an incredibly fast rate correct. This whole supply at 200000 BTUs in -- before gallons a minute. Or to order forty gallons of our recovery and is it still efficient and summer when we no longer need that the hot water for repeating the house. Making hot water is extremely expensive this is about the lowest cost that we're aware of right now making -- work OK and because of the storage tank systems were not making X we're not holding on to. Hot water at all times -- making it on demand that's correct this boiler will stay cold. Until it's called for demanding. Whether the demand being in this house you have an assortment of demands -- submersible house where you have radiant domestic space -- don't want. When this gets -- heat up. And turn around and start immediately without condense within -- condensing unit will recover your hot water and stored between a balance of recovery and storage. That's something this complicated have to have a computer attached to it somewhere right. This is the assistant manager of the actual brain if you will that actually controls every demand that comes in from the house. In this literally tells -- system. What to do next and how to distribute heat. So. This basically acts in conjunction with."

" All of the piping and all the different zone valves that is correct. What do you think is installation this is one of the finest. The visions of breaking the zone valves down. To be able to balance the house battered the size or any size let's get frank got a row over here -- he's really the man responsible for installing all this copper it precht. Nice job can you tell us exactly what you got going here. Well what we've done here Bob -- taken out each individuals own an isolated it with each one of these doubts that -- here see here one in the return. And another one on the supply which is right here so it. Basically we have ease of servicing if you have a problem down the road and one of the circuits -- one of the zones. You can isolate it without shutting down the whole system now I've got a third floor that is basically a -- week there -- gone -- to school. Do I come down here or shut down some of the ozone well no that's done automatically what you're setback thermostats OK we. Setback thermostats in each of the zones we will. Control the amount of heat win in a -- OK and then although we're talking. Gas as a fuel source and we're talking copper pipes filled with hot water in fact -- We're delivering heating to visit to the to the different rooms in the house via forced -- right. That's correct so what we've got to look at now is what you got an air handler. Yes all right Mike thanks we're gonna gonna the next step for a minute. Okay -- so what's what's happening here. Well John is assembling the return -- planning for this -- brewery unit this is the unit that's dedicated for the first floor. Heating and air condition okay so the platinum is where the air collects before being. Either needed or cool -- correct -- from the rooms are being brought back through discipline methods -- duct work. Brought up through the unit which is move with a blower it's. Posts rule a hot water coil that's being Fed from the boiler that we just let -- boiler this is supposed to be vertical though it that's correct is it ready go it's very very having. It's very heavy I'm gonna get -- it all right. -- and yet."

" And that's just it just sits on a slab Russia or Florida now we have a campus -- here which eliminates any vibration noises or anything -- Rubber ice connect -- transition between the ductwork and me that's correct that kills all the noise all the sound excellent and then. The copper pipes will be joint here but can we take a look in inside here to -- of course."

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