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hydronic modelling for buffer tanks

NRT_Rob
NRT_Rob Member Posts: 1,013
in THE MAIN WALL
anyone seen anything that can model buffer tank and temperature rises going in/out with a given heat source and load, over time, for a variety of piping configurations/flow rates?



Hydronics design studio doesn't let me change the piping, and it doesn't spec flow so I'm not very trusting of its results.
Rob Brown
Designer for Rockport Mechanical
in beautiful Rockport Maine.

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  • hot_rod
    hot_rod Member Posts: 23,197
    did you see the one

    at the Boiler Buddy site?



    Siggy has the long hand formula in several of the PMmag articles "Buffer Up" Nov 1998



    hr
    Bob "hot rod" Rohr
    trainer for Caleffi NA
    Living the hydronic dream
  • NRT_Rob
    NRT_Rob Member Posts: 1,013
    not on BTU storage

    got that covered. I am interested in speed of temperature rise if you, say, pull out of the bottom instead of the top, in a 2 pipe or a 4 pipe configuration.



    there is more to that, given stratification, then just BTUs... but it's complicated.
    Rob Brown
    Designer for Rockport Mechanical
    in beautiful Rockport Maine.
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