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| GELU air curtain systems in Frankfurt's exhibition hall  One of the largest construction projects currently taking place in Germany – the 'Messehalle 11' in Frankfurt am Main – uses the GELU air curtain systems made by the company Frico GmbH, which is based in Schlierbach, Baden-Württemberg. The building, which is an architectural masterpiece, requires the style and design of the individual components used in the project to be perfect; in addition to this, all devices installed also have to be truly energy efficient. A competition product was planned and put out for tender. The task at hand was to optimise the individual devices as well as improving and maximising the energy use of the individual types of devices currently available. Approx. 40 individual systems are set for completion.The concept suggested and offered by GELU-Frico succeeded in optimising the planned parameters further in both design and energy conservation through the intelligent design of details. These important reasons ultimately proved to be why customers, planners and the installation company all decided to choose the Frico product. The air curtain systems for the exposed main entrance are round devices with a span length of 4.00 m. These devices incorporate the installation ports of the water and electricity connections via side consoles, which makes the entire construction blend in neatly with the interior design concept. To provide particularly high efficiency, the air intake port is located on the segment directed towards the ceiling. This means that the warm spatial air in the upper part of the building only has to be heated with a smaller delta-t device and thus expensive and valuable energy can be saved. To increase the efficiency of the air curtain flow, the nozzle, which has a long air guidance section integrated in the casing, has been tangentially shifted towards the centre and the entrance opening. write your comments about the article :: © 2009 Construction News :: home page |