Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Heating systems and tecnologies
- Thermostates
- thermostats help
keep us alive in
Canada, thermo
meaning heat and
state meaning
maintain ex.. furnace
engines, fridge's, and
hot tubs
- thermostats
work cause
they have a
strip made of 2
different types
of medal called
a bimetallic
strip
- when heated it will bend
cause one metal will
expand faster than the
other as it bends and
unbends it controls a
heat regulating device
- Types
- local heating
provides heating
for only one room
like fire places
wood burning
stoves
- central heating
comes from a single
source like a furnace
and is transferred
through a network of
pipes or vents it is
called forced air
- another central
heating is hot water
heating that is
more common in
older houses
- Keeping cool
- thermal energy can
keep cold too ex air
conditioners they
work by removing
heat from a room
- basic parts are
a storage tank, a
compressor a
freezer unit,
condenser coils
and a refrigerant
- A refrigerant is
used to transfer
warm air tocool air
condenser coils
take the warmer air
vapor and cool it to
a liquid