Urban heating in northern China accounts for 40% of total building energy usage. In central heating systems, heat is often transferred from heat source to users by the heat network where several heat exchangers are in...Urban heating in northern China accounts for 40% of total building energy usage. In central heating systems, heat is often transferred from heat source to users by the heat network where several heat exchangers are installed at heat source, substations and terminals respectively. For given overall heating capacity and heat source tempera- tore, increasing the terminal fluid temperature is an effective way to improve the thermal performance of such cascade heat exchange network for energy saving. In this paper, the mathematical optimization model of the cas- cade heat exchange network with three-stage heat exchangers in series is established. Aim at maximizing the cold fluid temperature for given hot fluid temperature and overall heating capacity, the optimal heat exchange area dis- tribution and the medium fluids＇ flow rates arc determined through inverse problem and variation method. The preliminary results show that the heat exchange areas should be distributed equally for each heat exchanger. It al- so indicates that in order to improve the thermal performance of the whole system, more heat exchange areas should be allocated to the heat exchanger whore flow rate difference between two fluids is relatively small. This work is important for guiding the optimization design of practical cascade heating systems.展开更多
基金financed by National Key Research and Development Program of China(2016YFB0901405)National Natural Science Foundation of China(51706148)Sichuan Science and Technology Program(2017JY0333)
文摘Urban heating in northern China accounts for 40% of total building energy usage. In central heating systems, heat is often transferred from heat source to users by the heat network where several heat exchangers are installed at heat source, substations and terminals respectively. For given overall heating capacity and heat source tempera- tore, increasing the terminal fluid temperature is an effective way to improve the thermal performance of such cascade heat exchange network for energy saving. In this paper, the mathematical optimization model of the cas- cade heat exchange network with three-stage heat exchangers in series is established. Aim at maximizing the cold fluid temperature for given hot fluid temperature and overall heating capacity, the optimal heat exchange area dis- tribution and the medium fluids＇ flow rates arc determined through inverse problem and variation method. The preliminary results show that the heat exchange areas should be distributed equally for each heat exchanger. It al- so indicates that in order to improve the thermal performance of the whole system, more heat exchange areas should be allocated to the heat exchanger whore flow rate difference between two fluids is relatively small. This work is important for guiding the optimization design of practical cascade heating systems.
