Камины и отопление №49 6 № (49)’2010 Contents 4 Hi tech advantages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Hi-tech style in fireplace design is the youngest in the wide range of today popular ones. Therefore it’s the most impudent, bold and wilful style — as all the typical youngsters are. This style admirers feel absolutely free making great play with the idea of fire itself, using contrasts and paradoxes. Heat in ceramics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 These small-sized stoves don’t belong to the range of cast-iron moveable wood stoves (Russia’s so-called bourgeois style small stoves), as these movable small stoves as heat generators feature a lack of heat capacity. And the stoves we talk about have a ceramic «clothes», and this fact means they have a good thermal capacity. Art of shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Since a fireplace is the small architectural form, it more and more often becomes an object of architects’ professional interest. Working on a fireplace design is always an uneasy task for the architect, for he or she should consider a number of technical aspects creating a hearth’s look. Search of personality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Fireplace serves both for a living space’s heating and cozy atmosphere’s creating; and it very often highlights the home owners’s wealthiness. Our contemporary chooses a fireplace for its design expresses the owner’s personality and it also shouldn’t look even a little bit like the neighbor’s one. Taking this important fact into consideration, designers launch limited series, create single copies for interior and they are in a constant search for new shapes. The great simulator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Among home hearth’s numerous versions there is such a kind of a fireplace which installation does not require a floor, ceiling and beam durability inspection, and there is no need for a firewood storage, ashes container cleaning, chimney system installation and return draft troubleshooting while operating. The key is No caustic smoke is the key, together with a fire itself as the physical substance to destroy a fuel. Art of heat creating. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 German company «Brunner» regularly holds dealer and press seminars hosted by the company’s best and most experienced engineers. Yet another seminar took place in Munich at the end of June; «Brunner» training, design and service center welcomed hundreds of foreign experts. A cooking stove with sense of humour. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 The «Tile stoves» company professionals created a pizza cooking stove for «Spettacolo» restaurant in Moscow «Vremena goda» luxury shopping mall. Staff skills, creativeness, a fair share of sense of humour used — and finally we get an unique stove with the hand-painted tiles featuring not traditional ornaments but caricatures on restaurant and dining themes. Tile collection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 The «AI» ceramic workshop’s first complete tile collection was developed in 1991–1992. The «m. t. pruszkow» branded tiles were the first ones at the collection launch. These tiles had been a part of a stove before, so the «AI» experts got at once the complete set for their collection: eaves, plinths, tiles and all angular elements. «Hypokaust» stove: heat with history. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 «Hypokaust», a «Wolfshoeher Tonwerke» modern stove, is a heat source combining traditional heat accumulating stove’s thermal efficiency and modern firebox’s beautiful shapes with the big size doors. It is named in honor of its ancient prototype — a hypocaust, which is an antique heating system where warm air was spread all over the room space by means of the channels under a floor and behind the walls. Furnace repair: a firebox reassembly. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 Today the wood-burning stove or a fireplace remains one of the most popular ways of home heating, even if the house is equipped with the main gas. Moving aside economic reasons, we keep enjoying a real fire flames through transparent firebox doors. But sometimes the close friend and «warm» home assistant suddenly quit bearing all its duties. There are a plenty of the reasons for that, a vast number of stove «illnesses»; but there are only two ways to solve the problem: either you break your stove and make it again or you try to repair it. Heat delivery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 Electric convector is rather popular heating device. Its main advantages are as follows: a short period of time for living space’s air warming up and simple installation. Hot family . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 Some time ago a long time heat storage was considered a heating device’s main advantage. The priorities have changed for today. Now first thing the customers need from radiators is an efficient performance, and the second one is an operating usability. There is water, hot water!. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 Hot water supply boilers which heats up water by means of a gas torch, hold rather a small niche in the Russian water heating device market; and they’re equipped only with the most necessary operating elements. At the same time these units feature lower price list and — as for operating costs — they’re much more economic than their electric analogs. This is a theme for our next «Round table»: gas tank water heaters. Independent power supply for heating system . . . . . . . . . . 142 According to the statistics, one of the Russia’s most popular ways of private house heating is a use of hot water; only sometimes it loses its positions to the stove air, but far not often. Comparing these two heating methods we must at once note the hot water heating’s energy dependence, while on the contrary the stove air heating requires only fire wood. Power cutoff and its consequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144 What happens to water heating system if the normal home power supply is suddenly broken? All may seem quite simple: it quits functioning up to power supply starts again. However we would like to tell you more in detail about the processes accompanying power supply switching-offs, and also about a safety automatics role in prevention of possible negative consequences. Endless circle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146 People usually associate the pumps with water supply, but these devices can be used also in water heating systems, making their work more effective, user comfortable, money saving and durable. That’s why in most cases we consider these units even necessary ones. 124 24 62 92 62 38 132
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