Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Type Of Heaters And Their Effectiveness

By Alex D White


What usually crosses your mind whenever someone mentions heaters? Well, it may be anything depending on what you are used to. Different kinds of heaters exist each of which function differently. Your choice of heater will greatly rely on the various heaters that you already know.

First off, there is the electric water. A cold shower on a very cold evening bites, right? You need to invest on a water heater. Water heaters are basically made of a wire that has a high resistance that heats up when a current passes through them. Once they are heated, they in turn heat the water. Silica is used in water heaters to reduce chances of electric shocks. Go for a high quality and efficient water heater like the solar heater to avoid breakdowns.

Electric heaters or electric stove heaters use electricity to provide heat. They turn electricity straight into heat via a resistance aspect in the metals involved. Heat distribution will however change from heater to heater. They are fairly priced and economical because of the convection heat they produce.

Convection heaters heat the air around them then it spreads out to the rest of the room and heats the room in that process. Infrared heaters work by heating objects directly instead of the air while heat pumps work by removing warm air from the outside and taking to a cold inside and vice-versa.

Convection heaters are a type of heaters powered by a resistor that opposes the flow of electricity. The electric energy turns into heat and then it flows through the metal heating element. Convection heaters heat energy above them directly, the air rises and spreads out into the room. Some heaters such as the forced air convection heaters usually heat air through blowing air over heated coil using a fan. This air spreads out into the room and in the process the room gets heated up.

Another common type of heaters is the radiative heaters. These use aspects of much greater temps compared to convection heaters. These heating elements are enclosed inside a protective cover for instance quartz in a bid to stop heat from getting away. This maintains the heating unit at very hot temperatures. They are good in heating objects compared to heating air. They heat your body directly when you stay close to the heater. They are cheap and excellent when utilized in areas that need short time for heating.

You will also find heat pumps that use a pump in driving a liquid through two coils. This liquid is known as a refrigerant. It flows via a condenser coil indoors, where the majority of the heat is moved in to the air. This in event warms up the area and cools the refrigerant simultaneously.

This happens when the refrigerant gets decompressed in the evaporator coil outside the house. The outside heat warms up the refrigerant as it moves back to the compressor. It goes on in a cycle taking air from the outside and pumping it to the inside, continuously until the whole room gets heated. They are cheap, efficient and they provide both heating and cooling.




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