scholarly journals Newly Developed Thermal Load Profile for Enhancement in Hot Water System

Author(s):  
Norazlianie Sazali ◽  
Munirah Nawi ◽  
Saiful Anwar Che Ghani ◽  
Maurice Kettner

In recent years with the advancement of technologies, the demand of a reliable and flexible hot water system has increased tremendously. A reliable system includes several critical points which are the degree of safety that a system can offer, the conservation of the energy used and the issue of cost saving. While a flexible system must provide the flexibility in the control of the output from a system desired by the consumers itself. This paper reported on newly developed system for hot water that will greatly benefit consumer. It focuses on building an extension of the cyber physical system in the existing system with purposes of implementing a thermal load profile for consumer who use the hot water system in their daily life. The implementation of the thermal load profile to the system is significant especially in conserving the energy used in the system simultaneously saving any related cost to operate the system. Based on the implemented thermal load profile, the system works in maintaining an output of thermal energy from the hot water supplied to the consumer at a certain value. In addition, it also allows flexibility in controlling the desired temperature by consumers. This new system is simulated in a test bench in the form of laboratory setup. The system uses a control loop feedback mechanism, which means that it will continuously regulate the temperature and mass flow rate of the flowed water in the pipeline for the consumer hot water simulation based on the calculated difference of the actual supplied values and the set values. With the use of standard devices and actuators to drive the system, a robust system can be realized.

1979 ◽  
Vol 23 (89) ◽  
pp. 309-319 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven M. Hodge

AbstractIn 1975 and 1977, 24 bore holes were drilled to the bed of South Cascade Glacier, Washington, U.S.A., using both electrothermal and hot-water drills. Only two holes connected directly with the basal water system, a significant decrease from the four to five such connections in 13 holes drilled in 1973 and 1974 (Hodge, 1976). Most of the bed, possibly as much as 90%, appears to be hydraulically inactive and isolated from a few active subglacial conduits. Bore holes which penetrate these inactive areas initially should connect eventually with the active basal water system due to bed pressurization by the water standing in the bore hole, provided there is a sufficient supply of water available to form and maintain the connection passageway. These sealed-off areas probably consist of the sub-sole drift and permeability barriers found recently at the bed of Blue Glacier by Engelhardt and others (1978); an increase in the area of bed covered by these features probably caused the decrease in chance of bore-hole connection. This apparently was not due to any external cause but rather was the result of a real internal change in the subglacial hydraulic system which occurred between 1974 and 1975.If most of the area of a glacier bed is hydraulically isolated sub-sole drift, or something similar, such features may well control large-scale glacier sliding changes, since changes in the amount of water having access to the glacier bed will take considerable time to affect the interstitial water pressure in the more widespread sub-sole drift.Water pressures in the active part of the basal water system of South Cascade Glacier are generally in the range of 50–75% of the ice overburden pressure. Water levels in a connected bore hole are probably representative over an area of the bed 100 m or more in extent. A correlation of bore-hole water levels with changes in surface motion supports the idea that the sliding of a temperate glacier is controlled largely by the basal water pressure.


1979 ◽  
Vol 23 (89) ◽  
pp. 309-319 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven M. Hodge

AbstractIn 1975 and 1977, 24 bore holes were drilled to the bed of South Cascade Glacier, Washington, U.S.A., using both electrothermal and hot-water drills. Only two holes connected directly with the basal water system, a significant decrease from the four to five such connections in 13 holes drilled in 1973 and 1974 (Hodge, 1976). Most of the bed, possibly as much as 90%, appears to be hydraulically inactive and isolated from a few active subglacial conduits. Bore holes which penetrate these inactive areas initially should connect eventually with the active basal water system due to bed pressurization by the water standing in the bore hole, provided there is a sufficient supply of water available to form and maintain the connection passageway. These sealed-off areas probably consist of the sub-sole drift and permeability barriers found recently at the bed of Blue Glacier by Engelhardt and others (1978); an increase in the area of bed covered by these features probably caused the decrease in chance of bore-hole connection. This apparently was not due to any external cause but rather was the result of a real internal change in the subglacial hydraulic system which occurred between 1974 and 1975.If most of the area of a glacier bed is hydraulically isolated sub-sole drift, or something similar, such features may well control large-scale glacier sliding changes, since changes in the amount of water having access to the glacier bed will take considerable time to affect the interstitial water pressure in the more widespread sub-sole drift.Water pressures in the active part of the basal water system of South Cascade Glacier are generally in the range of 50–75% of the ice overburden pressure. Water levels in a connected bore hole are probably representative over an area of the bed 100 m or more in extent. A correlation of bore-hole water levels with changes in surface motion supports the idea that the sliding of a temperate glacier is controlled largely by the basal water pressure.


1983 ◽  
Vol 105 (3) ◽  
pp. 311-321 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. H. Fanney ◽  
S. A. Klein

The thermal performance of six solar domestic hot water systems and a conventional hot water system have been carefully monitored by the National Bureau of Standards in Gaithersburg, Maryland. The system configurations include an evacuated-tube air system with a crossflow heat exchanger and two storage tanks, a single-tank direct system, a double-tank direct system, a single-tank indirect system with a wrap-around heat exchanger, a double-tank indirect system with a coil-in-tank heat exchanger, and a thermosyphon system. Results are presented for a one-year time interval commencing January 1980. This paper includes a detailed description of the hot-water systems, experimental test results, and comparisons with computer predictions using the f-chart method [1].


2011 ◽  
Vol 71-78 ◽  
pp. 1837-1841
Author(s):  
Sheng Cai Li ◽  
Hong Yan Zhou ◽  
Yong Qian

There are problems of resource allocation and integrating technology with building when utilizing solar energy in a high-rise residential building. In this paper, a new 34-storey residential building with solar energy design is taken for example to probe new ways for solar collectors, energy saving and distribution system. A new system is designed to solve the following problems: inadequate roof area for collecting solar energy, energy loss by long-distance heat transporting, and defacing building appearance by setting solar energy facilities on building surface. And to archive the aim of suitably using solar energy, the integration of solar energy facilities with building facade is also discussed.


HortScience ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 249a-249
Author(s):  
Eric A. Lavoie ◽  
Damien de Halleux ◽  
André Gosselin ◽  
Jean-Claude Dufour

The main objective of this research was to produce a simulated model that permitted the evaluation of operating costs of commercial greenhouse tomato growers with respect to heating methods (hot air, hot water, radiant and heat pumps) and the use of artificial lighting for 1991 and 1992. This research showed that the main factors that negatively influence profitability were energy consumption during cold periods and the price of tomatoes during the summer season. The conventional hot water system consumed less energy than the heat pump system and produced marketable fruit yields similar to those from the heat pump system. The hot water system was generally more profitable in regards to energy consumption and productivity. Moreover, investment costs were less; therefore, this system gives best overall financial savings. As for radiant and hot air systems, their overall financial status falls between that of the hot water system and the heat pump. The radiant system proved to be more energy efficient that the hot air system, but the latter produced a higher marketable fruit yield over the 2-year study.


Weatherwise ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-19
Author(s):  
Jan Null
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