What is Infrared Heating?
Infrared waves, or infrared light, are part of the electromagnetic spectrum. People encounter Infrared waves every day; the human eye cannot see them, but humans can detect them as heat. The heat is the same feeling of warmth as the sun on your face on a cold winter day.
Infrared heaters work by converting electricity into radiant heat which is the direct transfer of heat from the heater to the object (you and the room around you) without heating the air in between, as traditional radiators do. This makes infrared heating systems highly efficient, creating a comfortable, draught-free environment with an even heat distribution throughout the area.
Our bodies are radiant objects. More than 60% of our sense of comfort or discomfort is governed by our radiant heat gain or loss.
Only 15% of our sense of comfort is governed by air temperature and movement.
This means we usually feel warm if we’re absorbing heat from our environment and often feel cold if we’re radiating out our own body
heat to the outside world.
For most people, if the environment around us is more than 26C or less than 16C, we feel discomfort, because we are either gaining or
losing too much body heat.
So, if we warm the walls, ceiling and floor of the room we are in (not the air) to at least 17C and ideally to around 22C, our bodies will stop feeling that we are losing heat and we will feel warm and comfortable. This is the objective of infrared heating: to build up “thermal mass” in an environment and let it keep you warm.
With continuous advances in technology, the controlled precision of infrared heat offers energy-efficient and cost-effective application. Infrared heaters and underfloor heating systems are now being widely applied globally in residential, commercial and industrial spaces.
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