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Uponor presents Comfort Panel High Performance

Air conditioning by high-performance roof

Source: Uponor03/05/2010

May 3, 2010

Uponor has developed High Performance Panel Comfort, a solution of air conditioning for cooling in summer and heating in winter, a single system for the whole year. The solution is composed of registrable and built roof plates from a special material based on graphite, which favors the heat conduction. Steeped in graphite, Comfort Panel High Performance incorporates tubes of lattice polyethylene for the movement of water through its interior.

The upper part of the system, which is not visible after installation, just with a layer of acoustic and thermal insulation. And the lower part visible, is formed with a sheet of galvanized steel with a finish in white glass fibre. The resulting set is a solution very aesthetic control, and with identical attributes to the Invisible air conditioning.

Comfort Panel High Performance guarantees high levels of comfort thanks to its principles of operation, without flows of air or noise, typical of traditional systems.

This new product of Uponor is accesible, which means that it is possible to install it to an open space and then the end user of the building, without virtually reforms, can adapt the solution to your needs. For this reason, it is possible to ensure that the solution reached high levels of thermal comfort for end users, as well as being a healthier than traditional solutions of air conditioning system. Comfort Panel High Performance not bases its operation on air currents that create discomfort in end users, as well as the movement of particles of dust and mites that cause allergies and other ills of the respiratory system.

Energy saving is one of the benefits of the new Comfort Panel High Performance of Uponor. The solution uses water to moderate temperature, both in winter as in summer, so it reduces consumption by up to 70%, in combination with the use of alternative energy. "Comfort Panel High Performance represents the desire of Uponor develop solutions to improve the quality of life of its end users," says Juan Francisco Martínez, director of projects of Uponor.

Comfort Panel High Performance achieves energy savings of up to 70%, in combination with the use of alternative energies

The benefits of the new High Performance Comfort Panel should add freedom of interior design. I.e., the system does not occupy place, is integrated into the structure of the building by offering a full freedom in the interior design.

This is the ideal system for the non-residential and industrial market, either in the segments of new of reform work.

Quality assurance

Uponor has extensive experience in the design of this type of solutions and meet the demand of the market with its air conditioning solutions. Comfort Panel High Performance is intended for non-residential and industrial market, basically, hotels, public buildings, office buildings and warehouses, whether new construction or reform. Likewise, installation is simple and quick, so it does not interfere in the implementation of the rest of work to do.

The solution of Uponor has passed the strictest quality controls. The thermal power of the panel has been tested according to UNE-EN 14240, resulting in a nominal power of cold 74 W/m² and a nominal power in heat of 100 W/m² in the conditions of that trial, and may exceed power output benefits, in the normal conditions of operation of the interior of the buildings.

With regard to the behaviour against noise, the system has been subjected to sound absorption tests marked by the standard EN ISO 11654.

Comfort Panel High Performance consists of: