THE INFLUCENCE OF SOURCE TEMPERATURE ON ELECTRIC FLOOR HEATING PANELS

Abstract

The application of low-temperature electric floor heating panels (LTEFHP) is limited to hygienic requirements, therefore the maximum surface temperature of the floor should be uniform and within certain limits. In the first part of the paper, using the finite volume method (FVM) in the software ANSYS Workbench 14.5, the field of application of electric heating cables (EHC) in the construction of floor heating panels (FHP) was examined, taking into account their axial spacing and temperature regime. In the second part of the paper, the behavior of LTEFHP was experimentally investigated on a physically constructed model of the test chamber by monitoring the internal air temperature (IAT) depending on the external conditions.