Vintage Aircraft Restoration Project

​Smart Hydronics helps Carry the Torch for Connies

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Industry

Aerospace

Category

Product(s) Installed:

Customer

Lufthansa Technik

Location

Auburn, ME

Scope

Heat a hangar at the Auburn-Lewiston airport in Maine, where the customers were restoring a Super Constellation Starliner luxury aircraft.

Sales Representative

Emerson Swan

What Client Needed

A system that would hydronically heat the airplane hangar's high-mass concrete floor.

Solution

Two large manifolds for the main area supplies warmth to twenty-four 400-foot, 5/8-inch PEX loops spaced on 18-inch centers in the main floor. Spacing is closer at nine-inch centers near the exterior walls and the snowmelt apron.

Two gas-fired boilers feed 180°F water out to the manifolds. Return fluid temperatures typically reenter the primary/secondary piping at about 80°F.

Result (ROI)

The solution saved a huge amount of money on the cost of the system and energy consumption.