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Delta T

Rodney Summers
Rodney Summers Member Posts: 748
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In a residential setting, what are the typical Delta T's used in the circulator-sizing formulas for the following types of loops:

1) System loop of CI Radaitors

2) System loop of copper-fin tube baseboard

3) Indirect fired DHW tank

Thanks!

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  • Rodney Summers
    Rodney Summers Member Posts: 748
    Number

    1 and 2 is typically 20° dT. Probably NOT for the reasons you suspect either...

    # 3 has no design dT "standard." There are so many variables, e.g., if the well water is 38° and the indirect just filled and the boiler cold, we could see a 100° dT and that would be fine.

    If sombody's in the shower and the boiler is large, the dT could be 5°. That too would be fine.
  • hydronicsmike
    hydronicsmike Member Posts: 855
    HUH?? You answered your own question?

    GPM = Btuh / (deltaT x 500)
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