Air movement specialist Advanced Air has introduced the Epic range of fan coil units that are able to achieve specific fan power (SFP) as low as 0.15w/l/s — making them, says the company, the most energy efficient unit on the European market and able to bring about a significant reduction in a building's carbon emissions.
Their unique fan deck arrangement has a single horizontally mounted ec motor-driven fan which can achieve these very low SFP at a relatively low price premium compared to ac driven fan coil units. In fact, says Advanced Air, the payback period is measured in months rather than years making the EPIC fan coil an extremely cost-effective system with the benefit of significant savings in carbon emissions.
When installed into a building designed to meet or exceed the 2010 regulations the saving in carbon emissions can in most cases exceed 15 per cent of the total carbon emissions of the whole building.
In conjunction with its parent company in the USA, Nailor Industries, Advanced Air has developed a special 25W single fan deck with smart motor technology that makes the fan 'self-commissioning' — any change in external resistance is recognised by the smart controller and the fan automatically compensates to achieve its set point.
The motor has feedback capabilities which, via the BMS, can be used to indicate dirty filters and can be programmable to suit varying room condition loads. And, with stepless dynamic speed control, it is easy to make the unit into a variable air volume (VAV) fan coil unit.
