Customer Name |
A-Safe |
Location |
Elland, West Yorkshire |
Building Use |
Warehouse |
Size of Building / Construction |
50,000 sq. ft |
Heaters |
Winterwarm / Warmco TR50 suspended warm air heaters and Powrmatic air rotation heaters. |
Fuel Supply |
Natural Gas |
Ancillary Equipment |
DB8 Control Panel and MC200 thermostatic controller |
Warmco were commissioned to install heating into two areas of these premises. Firstly, we installed two Powrmatic (400kw) air rotation heaters, to heat the 50,000 sq. ft warehouse space. Additionally, we chose to put two Winterwarm TR50, natural gas fired, suspended, warm air space heaters into the adjacent 4,000 sq. ft workshop area, for this manufacturer of safety barriers, in October 2018. This customer was expanding into these premises and asked us to install heating into the warehouse and workshop areas. All of these heaters comply with ErP as determined by EU2015/1188.
For the larger stock warehouse area, we specified two 400kw Powrmatic Air Rotation heaters, to efficiently heat the large volumes of air in this building and to prevent damage to goods being stored. One major advantage of these heaters is that they can be located outside the building and heat the internal space very efficiently, whilst freeing up internal floor space. The principle of air rotation it to move large volumes of air heated to a lower temperature at low velocity.
Cooler low level air is constantly drawn through the heater and discharged at a higher level, de-stratifying the building and in turn, lowering the temperature gradient within the heated area. At full power the 400kw of this model can take the space to the desired temperature quickly, then the unit can fully modulate its heat output down to 240kw to maintain the desired temperature, (as measured by the air sensor / MC200 thermostatic control panel). This facility can offer fuel savings of up to 40% against a standard non-modulating heater.
The adjacent 4,000 sq. ft workshop space was heated using two Winterwarm TR50, natural gas fired, suspended warm air heaters. These can modulate from 50kw at full power down to 32kw once the building is up to temperature. This gives our customer a cumulative heat output variation of 36kw, offering a saving of up to 30% on fuel costs.
The whole project in Elland, took us four weeks to complete and our engineers worked round the customer’s production schedules and storage logistics, to create as little disruption as possible.