Thermocold - Climatizzazione e condizionamento industriale e residenziale

Conferences – Bari 25th of February, Milano 3rd of March 2011

In collaboration with the Engineering Consultant Rocco Luciano Uva, Thermocold analyzes the birth of a new Thermal Era and the application of multifunctional hydronic heat generators in building constructions, presenting the DUO innovation.

The UE plans (20-20-20) for the reduction of refrigerants with greenhouse effect, for the use of renewable energy source and for the reduction of energy consumption are focused to promote the urgent need of energy efficiency especially in homebuilding.

With the new Energy Certification has also changed the design approach not only the “heating system”, but of the whole “building-plant”. The energy ratings of buildings, the restrictions on legal limits for dispersions and performances, are leading to a return to centralized systems and to design of high efficiency cooling-thermal tower.

Manufacturers, consultant and customers plan to reduce energy consumption and reducing pollutant emissions.

The market therefore requires the study of more efficient integrated projects and with high-tech content, confirming the importance of heat pumps in the current energy and environmental context.

DUO innovation overcomes the limitations of traditional heat pump (strong decrease in performance with low outdoor temperature) in addition to providing winter heating, summer cooling and hot sanitary water (HSW) up to 80 C° retaining a constant heating capacity at different outdoor temperatures up to -40 C°.

The DUO is a multifunction unit where the key of his innovation is the advanced electronic that allows to manage complex refrigeration cycles in an interactive way through a full inverter technology applied to compressors, circulators, electronic expansion valves, allowing to set up different and completely independent set point for HSW, winter heating, summer cooling, and also managing with absolute fluidity the Digital Defrost System (intelligent digital technology defrost).

The use of primary energy of the Duo is both substantially lower than a methane condensing boiler, and a last generation heat pump.

Energy saving is the most clean and affordable form of energy and the use of heat pump allows the achievement of targets for primary energy savings, increase of renewable energy and reducing emissions of CO2.

Therefore the heat pump can be regarded as a technology able to make a tangible contribution to the environmental strategies of the European Community.