Jia Shangdong, Chen Yaowen, Wang Dengjia, et al. EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON EFFECT OF STRATIFIED DISCHARGE ON THERMAL STRATIFICATION IN LARGE-PIT THERMAL ENERGY STORAGE[J]. 2025, 46(3): 470-478.
Jia Shangdong, Chen Yaowen, Wang Dengjia, et al. EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON EFFECT OF STRATIFIED DISCHARGE ON THERMAL STRATIFICATION IN LARGE-PIT THERMAL ENERGY STORAGE[J]. 2025, 46(3): 470-478. DOI: 10.19912/j.0254-0096.tynxb.2023-1890.
EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON EFFECT OF STRATIFIED DISCHARGE ON THERMAL STRATIFICATION IN LARGE-PIT THERMAL ENERGY STORAGE
a scale model experimental platform was built to research the effect of the stratified discharge on the thermal stratification by combining the evaluation methods of outlet temperature
N
mix
number
and Ri number. The results show that the closer the outlet is to the top of the thermal storage tank
the more obvious the decreasing trend of the water temperature and outlet temperature is
the thinner the thermocline is
and the N
mix
number increases faster
indicating that the degree of thermal stratification of the water body decreases. The Ri number is mostly determined by volume flow rates
and the position of the outlets has little bearing on it. T
he discharge efficiency increases with time when the outlet is located above the middle line of the pool volume. With fixed outlet positions
as flow rate increases
the water temperature
N
mix
number
and discharge efficiency vary faster
and the closer the outlet is to the top
the more the volume flow rates affect the thermal stratification of the water body. The change in volume flow rates affects thermal stratification more than the change in outlet height.
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