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Solar Customer Case Study

ISSUE: Edward Moore Design, Inc., a Canadian Government recognized research and development laboratory since 1985, was developing a cooling and heating system to be utilized in three unique medical devices. They needed the unit to be as energy efficient as possible and also use insulation which was acceptable for the hospital environment.

SOLUTION: Nansulate® GP was specified into the heating and cooling unit for the three new medical devices.

The first device is an air conditioned/heated massaging mattress cover, which can be used for bed ridden patients, controlling the temperature of the mattess, providing comfort and preventing bed sores. It is scheduled for clinical testing in November 2008 and offshoots of this technology are now destined to target the general consumer market.

Edward Moore, President, describes the projects further, “Nansulate has been specified into the main cooling and heating system for this design. Nansulate added to the mattress cover system was found to reduce cooling temperature at a rate of 1.8 degrees per minute, as compared to the foam insulation alone which reduced temperature at a rate of 1.1 degrees per minute. All test were performed under identical conditions cooling one gallon of fluid.
By speeding up the cooling process, substantial energy savings were achieved. In addition, Nansulate prevented sweating during the cooling process and also prevents growth of unwanted substances on the surface of the system.

The same carefully researched cooling and heating system specifying Nansulate will be incorporated into a new machine to form x-ray invisible casts with perfectly even pressure over the entire area of a broken limb. The casts can be worn while swimming or bathing and re-formed, again with perfectly even
pressure, when swelling reduces. Thanks to Nansulate the time to form a perfectly even pressure cast will be approximately three minutes.
An additional portable machine specifying Nansulate in the unique heating and cooling system, is to heat and or cool with adjustable massage any area of the body for sports medicine and general
physiotherapy needs. This machine will free up the doctor or technician to perform other tasks. The portability of the battery operated machine is due in large part to the energy savings realized with Nansulate insulating coatings.”

Solar Panels Coated with Nansulate®

The first Nansulate® coated solar panel. the interior case is coated with nine coats of Nansulate® Solar and area directly under the glass is coated with three coats of HomeProtect Clear Coat

Solar array on house includes combination of evacuated tube panels and flat plate panels. Nansulate® improved the overall performance of the solar panel system by reducing heat transfer from the flat plate panels

Case Study

APPLICATION: Nansulate® Solar was applied to a solar hot water heater tank and piping. Surface temperature of pipes is over 200F. The pipes were coated with 12 coats of Nansulate® Solar to dramatically reduce surface temperature and, therefore, heat loss.

Nansulate® Solar and Nansulate HomeProtect Clear Coat were also used on the interior of the case for flat plate solar panels to increase efficiency and reduce energy loss.

RESULTS: Surface temperature on pipes and tank were reduced from 200F to 80F indicating a dramatic reduction in heat and energy loss.

A recent customer states,
“I will tell you why Nansulate is so important for solar thermal installations. It is not only its great ability to insulate tanks and piping, but its overall ability to work in the new high tech solar thermal installations, where the new flat plate panels are combined with more expensive evacuated tube panels, which saves the customer money by lowering the overall cost of the system, but still boosts wintertime performance.

Evacuated tube panels are 60% to 70% efficient in cloudy winter weather, whereas flat plate panels are only 10% to 20% efficient. Since evacuated tube panels are better insulated and designed to hold their heat with the vacuum, the flat plate panels are detrimental to this process of retaining heat and unfortunately act as reflectors of this heat when it is needed to be retained for maximum heat transfer to take place.

By treating the flat plate panels with Nansulate we have improved the heat retention of the flat plate solar panels which allows the evacuated tube panels to transfer more of the heat they produce in cloudy weather to be utilized by the end user. Furthermore, they still can cool down the system and protect the evacuated tube panels if needed.

During a maximum heat exchange the treated flat plate panel was 169.5 degrees F, which was the same as the evacuated tube panels; the non treated flat plate panel was 123.8 F degrees. At night, after the panels cool down, they are the same temperature. However, it is three to four hours before the treated panel cools down to the same temperature as the untreated panel.

I am getting ready to have the media come to see my house and Nansulate will be one of the many items featured. If I did not have the Nansulate I wouldn’t have been able to heat my house since 1/1/08 till today (11/24/08) without using natural gas or wood pellets. I have included some pictures and your product is in every one of them. Thanks for a great product, patience, and your support.”

-Kevin Lagorio
CEO and Founder
Universal Energy Group, Inc.