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| New green chiller  Aqua Products Company, Inc., Prosperity, South Carolina, introduces the new GREEN Reverse Cycle Chiller (TM) (RCC) for heating your home or office with hot water or air conditioning with chilled water. The RCC is will also work in conjunction with the Aqua Solar Heat Pipe (APCHPL16) built with 16 high efficiency evacuated vaccum tubes to produce free hot water. According to John W. Seppamaki, President of Aqua Products Company, "The days of affordable heating our homes or businesses are coming to an end. We are challenged to not only build new green products for the Heating & Air conditioning Industry but we must also develop the most efficient, flexible systems that will incorporate affordability of operations with the comfort equal to fossel fuels. We would like to introduce the new MODEL RCS built around the York® high efficient air source heat pump. The RCS is now available using the new green, R-410A refrigerant and also carries a higher COP rating. We can now merge both our RCS heat pumps with our APCHPL16 solar panels giving us a renewable energy assist." The first part of this system uses one of the Reverse Cycle System models. The RCS is able to produce chilled water for air conditioning and dehumidification in the hottest days of summer. Then in the cold days of winter it provides hot water for comfort heating. It has been called the hot air heat pump and the radiant floor heat pump. You can choose to use this hot water for radiant floor heating, forced air central systems, multiple ductless fan coils or use a mixture of all of the above. Hot water radiant floor systems are growing across the world and have become known as one of the most comfortable and cost efficient ways to heat a home or office. The RCS has made it easy and economical to provide an affordable total electric home by adding its ability to provide hot water for radiant floor heating using an air source heat pump. The RCS is designed to operate normally down to 17° F outdoor temperatures without the need for back-up heat. By adding an RCS to a radiant floor system gives you the ideal comfort systems for cold climates. The RCS is able to produce up to 115° F hot water; but just as important, it can produce down to 40° F chilled water for great air conditioning and dehumidification. Both heating and air conditioning sides can provide true zoning by using standard or high pressure air handlers and/or ductless fan coils and/or radiant heating or combination of all of the above. The second part of the system uses the Aqua Solar Heat Pipe (APCHPL16) hot water collectors. The Aqua Solar Heat Pipe collector consists of a series of 16 glass vacuum tubes with high intensity film and contain a heat pipe in each tube to absorb solar energy even on a cloudy day. This heat energy is then transferred into a water glycol solution being circulated from our Aqua Solar Tank (AST). The free stored hot water/glycol can be used to heat water circulating through both of our independent AST circuits and used where most beneficial depending on the time of the year. Each vacuum tube is round by design and can track the sun which allows for hot water production from mid morning till mid afternoon. Just two of the new collectors are capable of producing 80 gallons of hot water a day which used to take three of the old style panels under favorable conditions. Aqua Products Company is starting its first pilot programs by adding a new model of our RCS with flex sizing. The new models are the RCS-24/36 = 2 to 3 ton capacity and the RCS-48/60 = 4 to 5 ton capacity. write your comments about the article :: © 2008 Construction News :: home page |