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SVENSK STANDARD SS-EN 1264-2:2008 Fastställd/Approved: 2008-10-30 Publicerad/Published: 2008-12-01 Utgåva/Edition: 2 Språk/Language: engelska/english ICS: 91.140.10 Vattenburet system för uppvärmning och kylning Del 2: Golvvärme: Bestämning av värmeavgivning med användning av beräkningar respektive provningsmetoder Water based surface embedded heating and cooling systems Part 2: Floor heating: Prove methods for the determination of the thermal output using calculation and test methods SWEDISH STANDARDS INSTITUTE

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EUROPEAN STANDARD NORME EUROPÉENNE EUROPÄISCHE NORM EN 1264-2 October 2008 ICS 91.140.10 Supersedes EN 1264-2:1997 English Version Water based surface embedded heating and cooling systems - Part 2: Floor heating: Prove methods for the determination of the thermal output using calculation and test methods Systèmes de surfaces chauffantes et rafraîchissantes hydrauliques intégrées - Partie 2 : Chauffage par le sol: Méthodes de démonstration pour la détermination de l'émission thermique utilisant des méthodes par le calcul et à l'aide de méthodes d'essai Raumflächenintegrierte Heiz- und Kühlsysteme mit Wasserdurchströmung - Teil 2: Fußbodenheizung: Prüfverfahren für die Bestimmung der Wärmeleistung von Fußbodenheizsystemen unter Benutzung von Berechnungsmethoden und experimentellen Methoden This European Standard was approved by CEN on 13 September 2008. CEN members are bound to comply with the CEN/CENELEC Internal Regulations which stipulate the conditions for giving this European Standard the status of a national standard without any alteration. Up-to-date lists and bibliographical references concerning such national standards may be obtained on application to the CEN Management Centre or to any CEN member. This European Standard exists in three official versions (English, French, German). A version in any other language made by translation under the responsibility of a CEN member into its own language and notified to the CEN Management Centre has the same status as the official versions. CEN members are the national standards bodies of Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and United Kingdom. EUROPEAN COMMITTEE FOR STANDARDIZATION COMITÉ EUROPÉEN DE NORMALISATION EUROPÄISCHES KOMITEE FÜR NORMUNG Management Centre: rue de Stassart, 36 B-1050 Brussels 2008 CEN All rights of exploitation in any form and by any means reserved worldwide for CEN national Members. Ref. No. EN 1264-2:2008: E

SS-EN 1264-2:2008 1264-2:2008 (E) (E) Provläsningsexemplar / Preview Contents Page Foreword...3 Introduction...4 1 Scope...5 2 Normative references...5 3 Definitions and symbols...5 4 Thermal boundary conditions...5 5 Documents for testing...6 6 Calculation of the specific thermal output (characteristic curves and limit curves)...7 6.1 General approach (see [2], [4])...7 6.2 Systems with pipes installed inside the screed (type A and type C)...8 6.3 Systems with pipes installed below the screed or timber floor (type B)...9 6.4 Systems with surface elements (plane section systems, type D)...11 6.5 Limits of the specific thermal output...11 6.6 Influence of pipe material, pipe wall thickness and pipe sheathing on the specific thermal output...13 6.7 Heat conductivity of screed with inserts...14 7 Heat conductivity of the materials...14 8 Downward heat loss...14 9 Test procedure for the determination of the thermal output of systems that cannot be calculated in accordance with Clause 6...15 10 Test procedure for the determination of the effective thermal resistance of carpets...18 11 Prove report...20 12 Prove system...20 12.1 General...20 12.2 Master samples...21 12.3 Verification of test equipments...21 12.4 Determination of the values s m and M,s (q N,M,s, q G,M,s (R ;B =0,15), R,B,M,s ) of primary master samples...22 12.5 Verification of software...22 Annex A (normative) Figures and tables...23 Annex B (informative) Test procedure for the determination of parameters for application in EN 15377-1:2008 Annex C...42 Bibliography...45 2

SS-EN 1264-2:2008 (E) Foreword This document (EN 1264-2:2008) has been prepared by Technical Committee CEN/TC 130 Space heating appliances without integral heat sources, the secretariat of which is held by UNI. This European Standard shall be given the status of a national standard, either by publication of an identical text or by endorsement, at the latest by April 2009, and conflicting national standards shall be withdrawn at the latest by April 2009. Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of patent rights. CEN [and/or CENELEC] shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights. This document will supersede EN 1264-2:1997. This European Standard, Water based surface embedded heating and cooling systems, consists of the following parts: Part 1: Part 2: Definitions and symbols; Floor heating: Prove methods for the determination of the thermal output using calculation and test methods; Part 3: Dimensioning; Part 4: Installation; Part 5: Heating and cooling surfaces embedded in floors, ceilings and walls Determination of the thermal output. According to the CEN/CENELEC Internal Regulations, the national standards organizations of the following countries are bound to implement this European Standard: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. 3

SS-EN 1264-2:2008 1264-2:2008 (E) (E) Provläsningsexemplar / Preview Introduction This European Standard is based on the realisation that in the field of commercial trade, the thermal output of heating and cooling systems represents the basis of rating. In order to be able to evaluate and compare different heating and/or cooling systems, it is, therefore, necessary to refer to values determined using one single, unambiguously defined method. The basis for doing so are the prove methods for the determination of the thermal output of floor heating systems specified in Part 2 of this European Standard. In analogy to the European Standard EN 442-2 (Radiators and convectors Part 2: Test methods and rating), these prove methods provide characteristic partial load curves under defined boundary conditions as well as the characteristic output of the system represented by the standard thermal output together with the associated standard temperature difference between the heating medium and the room temperature. 4

SS-EN 1264-2:2008 (E) 1 Scope This European Standard specifies the boundary conditions and the prove methods for the determination of the thermal output of hot water floor heating systems as a function of the temperature difference between the heating medium and the room temperature. This standard shall be applied to commercial trade and practical engineering if proved and certifiable values of the thermal output shall be used. This European Standard applies to heating and cooling systems embedded into the enclosure surfaces of the room to be heated or to be cooled. This Part of this European Standard applies to hot water floor heating systems. Applying of Part 5 of this European Standard requires the prior use of this Part of this European Standard. Part 5 of this European Standard deals with the conversion of the thermal output of floor heating systems determined in Part 2 into the thermal output of heating surfaces embedded in walls and ceilings as well as into the thermal output of cooling surfaces embedded in floors, walls and ceilings. The thermal output is proved by a calculation method (Clause 6) and by a test method (Clause 9). The calculation method is applicable to systems corresponding to the definitions in EN 1264-1 (type A, type B, type C, type D). For systems not corresponding to these definitions, the test method shall be used. The calculation method and the test method are consistent with each other and provide correlating and adequate prove results. The prove results, expressed depending on further parameters, are the standard specific thermal output and the associated standard temperature difference between the heating medium and the room temperature as well as fields of characteristic curves showing the relationship between the specific thermal output and the temperature difference between the heating medium and the room. 2 Normative references The following referenced documents are indispensable for the application of this document. For dated references, only the edition cited applies. For undated references, the latest edition of the referenced document (including any amendments) applies. EN 1264-1:1997, Floor heating Systems and components Part : Definitions and symbols pren 1264-3:2007, Water based surface embedded heating and cooling systems Part 3: Dimensioning 3 Definitions and symbols For the purposes of this document, the terms and definitions given in EN 1264-1:1997 apply. 4 Thermal boundary conditions A floor heating surface with a given average surface temperature exchanges the same thermal output in any room with the same indoor room temperature (standard indoor room temperature i ). It is, therefore, possible to give a basic characteristic curve of the relationship between specific thermal output and average surface temperature that is independent of the heating system and applicable to all floor heating surfaces (including those having peripheral areas with greater heat emissions) (see Figure A.1). In contrast, every floor heating system has its own maximum permissible specific thermal output, the limit specific thermal output, q G. This output is calculated for an ambient (standard) indoor room temperature 5

SS-EN 1264-2:2008 1264-2:2008 (E) (E) Provläsningsexemplar / Preview i = 20 C. The other condition is the maximum surface temperature F, max = 29 C 1) at temperature drop between supply and return of the heating medium = 0 K. The maximum specific thermal output for the peripheral area will be achieved at a maximum surface temperature F, max = 35 C 2) and = 0 K. For the calculation and for the test procedure, the centre of the heating surface is used as the reference point for F, max, regardless of system type. The average surface temperature F, m, determining the specific thermal output (see basic characteristic curve) is linked with the maximum surface temperature. In this context, F, m < F, max always applies. The achievable value F, m depends on both the floor heating system and the operating conditions (temperature drop = V R, downward thermal output q u and heat resistance of the floor covering R, B ). The calculation of the specific thermal output is based on the following conditions: The heat transfer at the floor surface occurs in accordance with the basic characteristic curve. The temperature drop of the heating medium = 0; the extent to which the characteristic curve depends on the temperature drop, is covered by using the logarithmically determined temperature difference between the heating medium and the room H [3] (see Equation (1)). Turbulent pipe flow: m H /d i > 4 000 kg/(h m). There is no lateral heat flow. The heat-conducting layer of the floor heating system is thermally decoupled by thermal insulation from the structural base of the building. NOTE The aforementioned last condition does not concern the test procedure of Clause 9. 5 Documents for testing The system supplier's documents are taken as the basis for the determination of the thermal output. The following documents shall be provided: Installation drawing (section) of the floor heating system, covering two pipe spacing, including the peripheral area and giving information on the materials used (if necessary, the test results regarding the heat conductivity values of the materials shall be provided). Technical documentation of the system. This information shall contain any details necessary for the calculation of the construction customary on site. It shall be submitted to the installer in the same form. With a member of the testing body present, a demonstration surface of approximately 2 m 2 m is constructed to represent the actual construction used on site. 1) National regulations may limit this temperature to a lower value 2) Some floor covering materials may require lower temperatures 6

SS-EN 1264-2:2008 (E) (E) 6 Calculation of the specific thermal output (characteristic curves and limit curves) 6.1 General approach (see [2], [4]) The specific thermal output q at the surface of a floor is determined by the following parameters: Pipe spacing T; Thickness s u and heat conductivity E of the layer above the pipe; Heat conduction resistance R, B of the floor covering; Pipe external diameter D = d a, including the sheathing (D = d M ) if necessary and the heat conductivity of the pipe R or the sheathing M. In case of pipes having non-circular cross sections, the equivalent diameter of a circular pipe having the same circumference shall be used in the calculation (the screed covering shall not be changed). Thickness and heat conductivity of permanently mounted diffusion barrier layers with a thickness up to 0,3 mm need not be considered in the calculation. In this case, D = d a shall be used; Heat diffusion devices having the characteristic value K WL in accordance with 6.3; Contact between the pipes and the heat diffusion devices or the screed, characterised by the factor a K. The specific thermal output is proportional to ( H ) n, where the temperature difference between the heating medium and the room temperature is: H = V R V i ln R i (1) and where experimental and theoretical investigations of the exponent n have shown that: 1,0 < n < 1,05 (2) Within the limits of the achievable accuracy, n = 1 is used. The specific thermal output is calculated using Equation (3). m i q = B ( a i ) H i (3) where B is a system-dependent coefficient, in W/(m 2 K); ( a m i i ) is a power product linking the parameters of the floor construction with one another (see 6.2, i 6.3 and 6.4). 77