STUDY OF EFFECTS OF STRATIFICATION IN WATER TANK ON SOLAR HEATING SYSTEMS BY PLUG-FLOW APPROACH
This paper employs the plug-flow approach to model stratification of water tanks and conducts hourly simulation of some typical solar heating systems during a whole year. The results indicate that stratification in storage tank can significantly increase the collector efficiency and solar fraction of solar heating systems. Meanwhile the effects of some factors, such as types of collectors, the temperature of supply water and the temperature difference between the supply and return water, on the performance improvement of the solar heating systems employing stratified storage tanks over those employing fully mixed tanks.
Solar heating storage tank stratification plu-flow approach
Guoqing Yu Jinhua Tang Zhijun Zou
Department of Building Environment and Services Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, China
国际会议
北京
英文
2007-09-07（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）