building applications copper - redefined

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1 building applications copper - redefined

2 copper - redefined The task The development of an innovative tube for the future: economical, environmentally friendly, ecological, completely safe and easy to lay The result A copper tube of the highest quality and yet with extremely thin walls. A copper tube that is economical, light and easy to bend, even by hand. A copper tube that can be supplied in long lengths, therefore requiring few joints. A copper tube that can be joined with metal press fittings and has a plastic sheath to protect the tube as it is laid. Q-tec TM The copper tube, redefined. Q-tec TM convinces because it is a thin-walled copper tube that is frictionally bonded to a polyethylene sheath. Q-tec TM available in the following dimensions: 14 x 2, 16 x 2 and 20 x 2. Q-tec TM in lengths of 100 m and more. Q-tec TM safe, light, easy to install.* This is how we have redefined copper. Q-tec TM convinces because it is copper! Q = Cu =Copper quality * Available immediately for panel heating systems and connection to radiators (DVGW [German Technical and Scientific Association for Gas and Water] approval applied for).

3 III. PE plastic sheath II. Frictional bond I. Thin-walled copper tube Q-tec TM with all the advantages of a top-quality copper tube Q-tec TM stays absolutely hygienic, making life difficult for legionella bacteria. Q-tec TM is 100% diffusion-tight and so offers reliable security against dangerous incrustation in panel heating. Q-tec TM has the stability of copper tubes. Q-tec TM has low thermal linear deformation. Q-tec TM withstands pressure up to 32 bar. Q-tec TM also convinces the most critical arithmeticians who don t want to be restricted to one system for installation. Q-tec TM lasts for the life of a house. Q-tec TM is copper inside which makes for taste-free transportation of drinking water.* Q-tec TM advisers provide support with planning and other services. Connection technology Press fittings are metal on metal sealed, with a double EPDM sealing element, and with Q-tec TM you do not need to adhere to any compulsory systems. Simply use Q-tec TM fittings from KME or commercially available press fittings** with F, U and TH contours as preferred just as you might expect of the KME brand of copper tube. * DVGW approval applied for ** For the range of commercially available connectors currently recommended by KME visit

4 installation Installation Q-tec TM the intelligent copper tube Today for panel heating + panel cooling for radiator connection for outdoor heating systems + underground absorbers for concrete core activation (cooling/heating) Technical data ( for dimensions 16 x 2 ) External diameter 16 mm Internal diameter 12 mm Material of medium-containing tube Copper Wall thickness 0.35 mm Purity of inner surface Complies with EN 1057 Sheathing material Polyethylene (PE) Wall thickness 1.65 mm Therman conductivity λ = 0.35 W/mK Pressure resistance of copper tube 32 bar Delivery lengths 100 m and longer Coil weight 19 kg ( for 100 m ) Roughness of inner surface 1.5 µm Behaviour in fire DIN 4102-B2 and DIN EN Class E Colour white, resembles RAL 9010 (pure white) Identification KME Copper Inside Q-tec TM 16 x 2 mm DIN 4102-B2 Tracing code Tomorrow for all heating and plumbing applications* Q-tec TM copper tube, seamlessly extruded and frictionally bonded to a protective PE sheath 100 m length weighs just 19 kg (for dimensions 16 x 2) easy to bend easy to install Q-tec TM The copper tube, redefined. Steel sleeve Plastic Brass connector D-rings Copper tube Press fitting *DVGW approval applied for

5 Cutting to size Deburring, calibrating Connecting Pressing Installation The tube can be laid on any suitable background system-specific insulation or commercially available insulation. The coiled tube is unrolled using a positioning foil on a smooth background or on textured pipe positioning panels. Material: Positioning foil, textured pipe positioning panels Bending The tube can be bent effortlessly by hand. Naturally conventional bending tools or bending springs can also be used. Tool: bending too, bending spring if required Cutting to size, deburring, calibrating The tube is cut to size using a pipe cutter or a saw. Any burring is removed with a deburrer which at the same time is used for calibration. Tool: Pipe cutter, deburrer Connecting Commercially available press fittings* with a double EPDM sealing element are used to connect the tube. Their advantage: the metallic fitting seals straight onto the metallic inner surface of the tube. All commercially available pressing tools with an F, U or H contour may be used. Tool: Pressing tool, F, U, TH jaw Material: Press fittings with double EPDM sealing element Distributor connection The tube is bent by hand in the area where the heating circuit distributor is connected and fitted using commercially available clamp couplings. Commercially available transition couplings (compression fittings/screws) are used for connections to normal control valves. Material: Clamp couplings, transition couplings Form of supply The tube is supplied in 100 m long coils, 10 coils per 1.0 x 1.0 m wooden pallet. Tubes are protected against soiling by stretch film and secured with plastic strap retainers. Longer lengths are available on request. * see

6 km europa metal ag Building Applications P.O.Box Postfach Osnabrück Klosterstrasse Osnabrück germany deutschland Hotline Building Applications Phone Tel (0)541/ Fax +49 (0)541/ TM = registrated trademark Subjekt to changes that contribute to technical improvement.