ELECTRIC HOT WATER HEATING

Water heating is an integral part of our daily lives.  Water is heated in our homes, work places, on holiday in hotels and restaurants and is involved in the manufacture of many of the products we buy.

To cater for this vast array of uses Howden Electric offers products suitable for domestic (home use), commercial, building services, industrial applications and for marine environments.

Our product portfolio is divided into the following product categories:

Electric Immersion Heaters

This is the part that contains the heating element. The immersion heater is fitted to a vessel where the heating takes place.

Hot Water Vessels

Also known as hot water cylinders, hot water tanks,  calorifiers, buffer vessels.  These retain stored hot water.  This provides a large availability of hot water at peak times and provides hot water faster than it can be heated.  The store of hot water is then replenished during low usage periods.

Stored hot water is also an excellent means of capturing energy from renewables whether this is from a heat pump, solar thermal, wind or hydro energy.  An immersion heater fitted to these vessels can supply heat when the renewables are unavailable or boost the temperature to prevent the risk of legionella in the system.

Flow Heaters or Boilers

Flow heaters heat water instantaneously and there is no stored hot water.  They are perfect for situations where there is a steady demand for hot water.

Other than directly heating water, flow heaters are ideal at backing up conventional boilers,  biomass boilers or heat pumps.