In detail: TransShare - Distributing geothermal energy made easy.
Hoval TransShare: save time with individually manufactured heating distributors Highly complex heating distributors – for industrial operations, residential developments and hotels, and district heating networks, for example – present a challenge to every installer. Hoval reduces the complexity and the often prevailing time pressure with individually manufactured distributors, which are now also available in an output range from 150 kW. Firstly, the planner: Together with the investor, the planner determines the energy sources, defines the output spectrum and temperature ranges and draws the flow diagram. Then the installer: The installer has to work very hard carrying out welding operations in order to connect the pipes and set up the desired heat distributor…. but it doesn’t have to be this way. The installer can leave this to Hoval. “We have recently started to manufacture heat distributors for higher performance ranges from 150 kW too”, says Urs Westreicher who heads the district heating/combined heat and power plant product management division at Hoval.
Save time and resources
Each distributor is an individual item
In other words, this means that installers save valuable time that they can use to do other work; they no longer need to arrange for temporary additional resources for welding large-scale systems and do not have to call in an electrician and a specialist for the insulation during this phase. Urs Westreicher: “We are undertaking all work together with our partner company YADOS”. (Read more about the collaboration with YADOS on page 8.)
Hoval and Yados manufacture TransShare heat distributors in exact accordance with individual planning requirements. Every system is a completely individual item. Pumps and valves as well as shut-off devices and thermostats are also precisely coordinated. The installer just has to lay pipes to connect the heat generator(s) to the distributor. Once the pre-wired heat distributor is positioned, the electrician is briefly involved in the process. Depending on requirements, the length of the power cable already corresponds to the distance from the heat distributor to the switch cabinet. Costs and work involved reduced by a third The TransShare heat distributor is supplied with or without insulation and with or without electrical wiring in accordance with customer requirements and is mounted on a support frame in such a way that no vibrations occur. The costs and effort involved for the installer are likely to decrease by up to a third. Specifically for condensing technology Urs Westreicher describes the solution as “well-engineered and superior in terms of energy”. In addition, he specifically points out that TransShare can be aligned with the condensing technology ® ® of Hoval UltraGas and UltraOil . “We design the distributors so that the
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