SubAir’s Hydronics systems are designed to condition and maintain ideal root zone temperatures, by 20-30 degrees, during both warm and cool season operation.
The Hydronics turf temperature control system, consists of several important pieces of equipment - a boiler, chiller, chiller pump, green pump, holding tank, temperature/pressure instrumentation, and a control enclosure. Each system is skid mounted, with the tank, controls, and pump on one skid, and the chiller and chiller pump on another.
When in operation, the system allows warm or cool fluid to be pumped from the skidded assembly’s holding tank, to the green location via a hydronics fluid supply pipe. The fluid then circulates under the root zone of the green through a network of flexible tubing. The working fluid is then returned to the green hydronics assembly’s holding tank.
Convective heat transfer resulting from air passing over the hot water filled tubing causes upward radial heat transfer and results in uniform control of soil temperature. The depth of the heating tubes and the convective transfer of warmth eliminate the creation of localized hotspots adjacent to the tubing which may occur utilizing other systems for heating.
