There is a need to establish quantitative relationships between storage tank design parameters and expected thermal performance for tanks with radial diffusers. The existing research literature and design guidance based upon it does not provide such a linkage. Performance expectations are stated in such relative terms as “good” or “poor”, making it impossible to assess the value or risk associated with making a design more or less conservative. The objective of this research project is to correlate the thermal performance of full-scale stratified chilled-water storage tanks with tank, diffuser and flow parameters by applying factorial experimental design methods to the results of computational fluid dynamic simulations. The scope of the project is limited to lower radial parallel plate diffusers in cylindrical tanks.
PRINCAL INVESTIGATOR: W.P. Bahnfleth, Pennsylvania State University
CONDUCTED: April 1998 – February 1999
SPONSORED BY: TC 6.9, Thermal Storage
Product Details
- Published:
- 1999
- File Size:
- 1 file , 860 KB
- Product Code(s):
- D-8230
