UF600 - new Frico air curtain for large industrial doorways
Frico, the leading supplier of air curtains in Europe, launches UF600 at ISH in Frankfurt. The new product is unique on the market, as normal air curtains can't handle very large doorways. It´s a total solution, using standard modules for the motor but everything else - the fans, ducts, nozzle, etc. are custom-built, giving exact performance for each specific doorway.
The UF600 comes in six different sizes, for doors that are from three meters high and four meters wide, to doors up to 6 meters high and 12 meters wide. The device can be installed both inside and outside and the angle of the nozzle will always point towards the cold side.
The product consists of one or two columns with air inlets, silencers and axial fans as well as a floor duct with a slot at floor level. The floor slot's width is calculated for each specific doorway in Frico´s CFD software (Computer Fluid Dynamics). The CFD analyze is also used to optimize the motor performance.
The pillars can be placed on both sides of the doorway. When two pillars are needed they will be positioned one on each side. As the air intake should be above the door opening for indoor installation, an extension of the column is sometimes necessary. Also, the UF600's nozzle slot is directed at an outward angle of about 15 degrees to compensate for the inward air flow caused by negative pressure inside the building.
Throughout a special axial fan combination, a high air rush is being generated and a high dynamic pressure is built up inside the floor duct. This pressure rushes against the internal resistance of the channel and the nozzle. The resistance can be up to 2000 Pa and therefore creates a very effective air curtain.
UF600 is using ambient air only. A huge amount of energy can be saved and it´s also possible to create a comfortable and healthy indoor climate for the staff working inside the building - even with a large and constantly open door. Not using the UF600, would mean losing a lot of warm air as a larger heating capacity for creating a comfortable indoor climate is needed.
About Frico
Frico is the leading supplier of air curtains, radiant heaters and fan heaters in Europe. Since 1932 Frico has developed and manufactured energy efficient products for a comfortable indoor climate. Today Frico is also represented in more than 70 countries by our subsidiaries, sister companies or our distributors. Head office is in Partille, outside Gothenburg, and the company is part of Systemair which has its head office in Skinnskatteberg, Sweden, approximately 3,400 employees and a turnover of SEK 4 billion.
This article first appeared on the FRICO website
Euro Controls UK Ltd are the UK distributor for Frico air curtains and fan heaters.
