Development of a digital twin of the heat network in various software

Abstract

The purpose of this work is development of the heat transfer calculation method of a water low-temperature ceiling capillary heating system for heating rectangular rooms. Recently, such systems have become widespread due to their advantages over traditional heating devices: the use of a coolant with a low temperature potential, high heating speed rate of the internal air, low temperature gradient in the height of the room, absence of noticeable air masses movement and dust flows, ability to work in cooling mode. However, such systems are still incompletely studied, and constructive calculations or calculations of thermal and hydraulic modes are carried out according to formulas obtained empirically, thus, calculations do not always have high accuracy. The paper proposes a heat transfer process calculation method from the considered low-temperature heating system, which allows determination of the heat flow value with high accuracy. It`s revealed that in the considered configuration of the system location (on the ceiling), a significant proportion of heat transfer is infrared radiation, and the convective component is very small. Therefore, it was very important to accurately describe the radiant heat exchange by mathematical equations. The calculation of the radiant component of heat transfer was carried out with the theory of radiation view factors. Experimental test of the studying object was carried out to find the missing values, as well as to verify the results obtained using the proposed calculation method. The calculation results had a slight deviation from the results obtained experimentally (the error was 6 %).