A comfortable train station with electric radiant heating
The Parc train station benefits from the advantages of electric radiant heating, which efficiently warms station users despite draughts. In fact, radiant heating directly heats people rather than air, which is lost.
Special features of train stations
Train stations are characterized by a large number of draughts due to the high volume of people using them. Draughts make the use of convection heating inefficient and expensive.
Advantages of radiant heating in train stations
Electric radiant heating is particularly effective in this type of scenario. In addition to being instantaneous and saving money at night when the station is closed, electric radiant heating heats the floor directly, making it dry, clean and safe. What’s more, radiant heating doesn’t heat the air, so it’s not lost in the many draughts.
How infrared works
Radiant heating is often referred to as infrared heating, since it uses infrared waves to transmit heat. Discover our complete article on infrared.
When infrared heating is on, the infrared rays transfer heat directly to the floor, keeping it dry and safe, unlike a convection heating system, which heats the air and is lost at the first draught.
The project: Parc train station
For this project, we used Fostoria’s MM series, available in 600V. The MTM series infrared lamps offer 96% radiant efficiency, which is ideal for environments with a high number of air exchanges.
Specifically, the 2.5kW units provide excellent coverage and comfort. To optimize the system, a custom-made control panel was supplied to control and modulate the devices.