The ZEF program addresses an open problem: how solving energy efficiency and climate control issues at the furniture scale rather than at the building scale? This table is a thermal sponge! How to find more efficient and incentives solutions for the user ? How to improve climatic weel-being?
This table has a very high thermal inertia, despite its sharpness. The secret lies into innovative use of phase-change materials (PCM), integrated between the surface of plain wood and the folded sheet of anodized aluminum. The waved geometry of the conductive aluminum fosters thermal exchanges between the room and the PCMs located inside the Climatic Table. The folds of the light-weight sheet of aluminum give also an excellent structural rigidity and carrying strength. Thus, the plateau might have a very large span.
How to find more efficient and incentives solutions for the user ? How to improve climatic weel-being ?
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As a first demonstration, the ZEF designers proposed the Climatic Table. This table has a very high thermal inertia, despite its sharpness. The secret lies into innovative use of phase-change materials (PCM), integrated between the surface of plain wood and the folded sheet of anodized aluminum. The waved geometry of the conductive aluminum fosters thermal exchanges between the room and the PCMs located inside the Climatic Table. The folds of the light-weight sheet of aluminum give also an excellent structural rigidity and carrying strength. Thus, the plateau might have a very large span.
The Climatic Table is the start of a new range of product of the ZEF program.
As an example, for office building, it helps energy savings : up to 60% of heating needs and 30% for cooling demand ! For housing, this furniture reveals its regulator property and allows an higher comfort during hot season. The overheating is absorbed by the Climatic Table and re-emitted when room temperature is tempered.
