Climaterra® is a new system invented by Juan Ortigosa García, which has been developed and patented by Ortronic® Technology, S.L., to reduce and control the temperature in the houses using the sub-soil temperature.
Specially recommended for:
1. Hotels, hospitals, state buildings, regular houses.
2. Communications shelters.
3. Farms, greenhouses and, in general, any edification which need to be cooled.
SUB-SOIL TEMPERATURE
As it is well known, the heat from the interior of the earth constantly flows from the interior to the surface.
In Spain, in winter and also in summer, at a depth of approximately 2 meters, there is a constant temperature between +9ºC and +11ºC. This phenomenon is known as 'Cellar Temperature', from now on CT.
The CT, can easily be transported to the inside of a house, country house, communications shelter, etc, to regulate its inside temperature between some certain and fixed limits.
A house, a country house, a communications shelter or any other edification, will be named from now on APPLICATION.
APPLICATION AND OPERATION
CLIMATERRA® SYSTEM
To control the temperature of the Application using the CT, Ortronic® has developed a new system, with the following parts:
A. Collector:
It is formed by plastic tubes, connected in one or several circuits, which are installed under the Application floor, at a depth that depends on the location of the installation, on the desired CT temperature and finally on the external temperature. In Spain this depth is aproximately 2 meters.
Any pipe used in heating facilities by radiant floor can be used for Climaterra®.
B. Transmitter:
Consist in pipes of the same type than used in the Collector, that could be installed in the lateral walls, under the floor or at the roof of the Application.
The Transmitter could have one or several circuits.
The Collector and Transmitter circuits are filled with water, and they are a closed circuit, which is bled for extracting the air existing in the pipes.
C. Water pumping, measuring and control:
The pumping system decants water between the Collector and the Transmitter, controlled by the temperature meters and the electronic control system, designed and manufactured by Ortronic®.
Operation:
1. The water inside the Collector absorbs the CT temperature and, using a pumping system, it is transported to the Transmitter.
2. The Transmitter builds a thermal barrier between the water in the Transmitter and the temperature inside the Application.
3. Due to the regulation of the flow of decanted water between the Collector and the Transmitter, the temperature inside the Application is controlled, and could be easily kept between +15ºC and +25ºC.
The Climaterra® system, developed and patented by Ortronic®, is formed by the following elements explained above:
Collector + Transmitter + Pumping system + Measuring system + Regulation and control system.
ADVANTAGES OF CLIMATERRA® SYSTEM
All the energy needed to cool and to maintain the temperature inside the Application between +15ºC ad +25ºC comes from the earth, without cost and with an inexhaustible warehouse.
The only external energy that is needed is the electrical energy needed for pumping the temperature to surface. This is the principal Climaterra® advantage, because an Ortronic® system with very small power factor water pumps is used. This means that there is a big amount of reactive energy which will be recovered by the Ortronic® system. Then, the energy savings will be high.
In special applications, as communications shelters, the energy savings from maintaining the temperature between +15ºC and +25ºC, reach the 90%.
CLIMATERRA® SYSTEM FOR BUILDINGS
We have chosen a telecommunications shelter (with transmitter pipes in lateral walls and roof) for the diagrams included to explain the Climaterra® system because it is easier and also faster to see and to understand its functioning.
For the application of the Climaterra® system to buildings, a radiant floor (under-floor cooling) installation is used. These kind of installations are very well known for all the Architects and Installers. The only difference is that, in this case, the water inside the transmitter pipes is cold instead of hot.
The radiant floor cooling system is the most confortable one, because there is no wind, which is the most annoying consequence of the air conditioning systems.
In the case of buildings, and as well as in the conventional radiant floor installations, the transmitter pipes will be located under the floor.
Climaterra® is a new system invented by Juan Ortigosa García, which has been developed and patented by Ortronic® Technology, S.L., to reduce and control the temperature in the houses using the sub-soil temperature.
