A. ECO DESIGN
Regulation 813/2013
Using Eco-Design for a product means designing the product, (in our case a boiler), with two main criteria:
A’1. The energy that the product (boiler) consumes during its operation, but also,
A’2. The energy and materials required for its construction.
Regulation 813/2013 deals with the Manufacturers, Importers and Distributors of boilers who are also responsible under the Certification Act of the boilers.
It is obvious that ECO DESIGN leads us to products more “friendly” to the environment and more economical in their operation. In case of boilers, the high requirements for the annual thermal performance of a boiler set by the regulation drives us to the use of condensing technology.
A Few Words About Condensing Technology.
Up to now, conventional boilers released exhaust gases of temperatures from 160 to 200 degrees Celsius, which resulted in large amounts of wasted thermal energy in the environment. Condensing technology exploits all this latent energy of the exhaust gases and returns most of this back to the heating water circuit. This is accomplished either through an appropriate combustion chamber, or by using external stainless steel heat exchangers (OSCAR technology) with which the boilers operate.
The BOILER results in the exhaust gas temperature being reduced to such an extent that the condensation effect of the exhaust fumes is generated.
For gaseous fuels the condensation temperature (dew temperature) is 57° C, while for petroleum is 47° C.
The condensation product is “water” which contains acidic pollutants which are collected by a condensate neutralizer and then led to the drainage network.
