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Experimental Research of the Radiator Thermal Performance Test Equipment and Its Application in Heating System

Lian Zhang^1,2,3,*, Linjun Fan⁴, Xin Xu⁵, Baowen Cao¹, Heng Zhang², Lihong Song³

1 Basic Experimental and Training Center, Tianjin Sino-German University of Applied Sciences, Tianjin, 300350, China
2 College of Mechanical Engineering, Tianjin University of Science and Technology, Tianjin, 300222, China
3 Tianjin Qicheng Science and Technology Co., Ltd., Tianjin, 300193, China
4 Software and Communication School, Tianjin Sino-German University of Applied Sciences, Tianjin, 300350, China
5 School of Energy Engineering, Tianjin Sino-German University of Applied Sciences, Tianjin, 300350, China

* Corresponding Author: Lian Zhang. Email:

Energy Engineering 2021, 118(2), 399-410. https://doi.org/10.32604/EE.2021.012647

Received 07 July 2020; Accepted 31 October 2020; Issue published 23 December 2020

Abstract

Radiator thermal performance test equipment plays a key role in the processing of developing a new type of heat radiator and its application products. The precise of temperature controlling, temperature measuring and flow measuring are the vital factors for a radiator thermal performance test equipment. Based on the above background, this paper improves the measurement and control system of radiator thermal performance test equipment, which improves the accuracy of the radiator thermal performance test equipment. This paper also optimizes the software and hardware system simultaneously so as to improve the precision of the auto-test system of test equipment. The flow rate ranges from 175 kg/h to 178 kg/h under different conditions. The average is 176.5 kg/h and the deviation rates are from 1.62% to 1.97%. The heat produced under various conditions is different. The maximum is 4.3 kW and the minimum is 4.2 kW for condition 1, the maximum is 3.3 kW and the minimum is 3.2 kW for condition 2 and the maximum is 1.95 kW and the minimum is 1.89 kW for condition 3. However, the deviation rate is about 2.9%, which shows that the device has high stability and high precision. This paper studies a new electronic heat cost allocate meter test method by radiator thermal performance test equipment at the same time. This paper tests temperature changes through four measures points and gets a result appeared as a heat backup which should be avoided when using in the test of electronic heat cost allocate meter. Some experiences and references could be gained for further research in the heating system from this test and research.

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