One of our customers approached us with an idea of bringing filtered fresh air into the kitchen whenever the kitchen extractor unit was running and heat fresh air during the winter time with his existing central heating system.
Our Idea:
After analysing our customer request and expectations we made a small plenum chamber with 100mm spigot to fit over the air intake side of the our wireless plinth heater model kph2100w.
Using an Inline duct fan to bring the fresh air into plinth heater plenum box connected with insulated ductwork and prefilter box.
Plinth heater with plenum box Insulated Duct to plenum box Inline duct fan within the Insulated duct Filter box connecting to external air Grille
Operation of the Inline duct fan and the plinth heater is controlled by the kitchen extractor unit. Whenever the kitchen extractor unit gets turned on it also activates the duct fan and kitchen plinth heater bringing the fresh air into the kitchen.The Kitchen plinth heater is also plumbed to the central heating system via a two port valve to activate the boiler when the signal is received from the wireless thermostat.
How it works:
Whenever the kitchen extractor unit is turned on, it activates the inline duct fan and the plinth heater bringing the fresh filter air in to replace the air extracted by the kitchen extractor. In winter months bringing the fresh air from outside will make the kitchen cold, so to avoid this situation we introduced our patent pending wireless plinth heater along with a thermostat which activates the two port valve connected between to the central heating system and the kitchen plinth heater.This in turn wakes the boiler up. Now the hot water from central heating flow through the heat exchanger inside the plinth heater. All the filtered fresh cold air passing over the heater exchanger gets heated up before it’s gently blown into the kitchen and keeping the floor warm.
Customer feedback: “Thanks to Thermix for making my idea a reality. They have been helpful listening my expectations and bringing the workable solution to bring more fresh air into the kitchen and heat the fresh air in winter months. Now my kitchen is filled with fresh air and warmth”. Thanks Alan Morris.
