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Thermo-hydraulic coupled analysis of meshed district heating networks based on improved breadth first search method

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  • Wang, Yaran
  • Shi, Kaiyu
  • Zheng, Xuejing
  • You, Shijun
  • Zhang, Huan
  • Zhu, Chengzhi
  • Li, Liang
  • Wei, Shen
  • Ding, Chao
  • Wang, Na

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Efficient numerical simulation of thermo-hydraulic coupled conditions is critical for analysis and control of DH network. However, for most of meshed DH network, the flow directions of its pipelines may change, which will lead to difficulties in effective numerical calculation of the thermo-hydraulic conditions. This paper established an efficient thermo-hydraulic coupled calculation method, which utilizes the topology sorting algorithm to obtain the calculation sequence of all pipelines during numerical thermal transient calculation, according to the flow directions and flow rates of all pipelines. The flow directions and flow rates are solved by hydraulic condition calculation at each time step. The proposed method is applied to a real meshed DH network for thermal dynamic simulation. Independence analysis of hydraulic computation frequency is conducted, and convergences of the simulated temperature variations are observed when hydraulic computation frequency gets larger. Thermal dynamics of the meshed DH network are analyzed with 10-min hydraulic computation interval. Results show that the temperature decay and time delay can be up to 2.7 °C and 210 min for the simulated network. Thermal dynamic characteristics of supply temperature waves are various considering the distance from heat source, fluctuations of outdoor temperature and the variations of substation flow rate.

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  • Wang, Yaran & Shi, Kaiyu & Zheng, Xuejing & You, Shijun & Zhang, Huan & Zhu, Chengzhi & Li, Liang & Wei, Shen & Ding, Chao & Wang, Na, 2020. "Thermo-hydraulic coupled analysis of meshed district heating networks based on improved breadth first search method," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 205(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:energy:v:205:y:2020:i:c:s0360544220310574
    DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2020.117950
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