The old two-pipe, fan-coil system was struggling to keep up with cooling demand during Atlanta’s hot summers. So it was decided that the old fan-coil system would be replaced with water-source heat pumps, sized to handle the building’s 500- to 600-ton cooling demand.
For the last decade Aquatherm helped educate North American engineers, installers, and facility managers on heat fusion techniques, and the company continues to offer extensive heat fusion courses, including socket fusion, butt fusion, electrofusion, and others, to customers free of charge. These courses help ensure safe, consistent and profitable installations.
The introduction of these solutions will enable insulators and mechanical engineers to confidently and easily work with the Aquatherm metric-sized polypropylene-random (PP-R) piping systems.
A new PEX compression adapter made of PP-R and lead-free brass allows installers to easily transition between Aquatherm and PEX in potable water and radiant systems.
N.H. Yates, which has served as an Aquatherm manufacturer’s representative since 2010, will provide Aquatherm customers with expedited delivery times and cost savings.
Aquatherm North America announced that N.H. Yates will serve as the leading polypropylene pipe company’s primary warehouse for the East Coast. An existing N.H. Yates warehouse located in in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, will stock and distribute Aquatherm pipe and parts throughout the Eastern U.S.
Aquatherm-to-copper stub-outs come in ½-, ¾-, and 1-inch diameters and range 11-18 inches in length. Installers can easily transition to a fan coil unit, zone valve, heat pump, or other HVAC components with sweated connections using polypropylene-random (PP-R) piping systems.
The polypropylene pipe (PP-R) systems are connected via heat fusion, which bonds pipe and fitting at a molecular level, creating a connection that lasts a lifetime and eliminates toxic materials, glues, resins, and open flames from piping installations.
