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Energy and Bulngs 72 (2014) 380-387 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Energy and Buildings journal homepage: www.clsevier.com/locate/enbulld ELSEVIER Evaluation of terminal coupling and its effect on the total delta-T of chilled water systems with fan coil units Que Cheng Chang’, Yi Jiang, Qingpeng Wei partment of Suing Scence and Tehelogy, sua es Reng TEA. PRChina Receive 2 uly 2013 ‘Mase chilled water cralation systems with fan coll units suffer from a low temperature difereatial between the supplied and returned wate, On-site investigation shows thatthe relationship between, total cooling consumption and total water fow rate of real systems is diferent from that of single col units mainly as aresul ofthe interaction ofthe terminals When certain terminals close their water valves, the other terminals have higher water ow rates and lower water deta-T values. This study presents 2 Enc ser oy «anitatve analysis terminal coupling and select on system characteristics System coupling actor hile water stem is used as an indicator to describe the total degre of an coil unt coupling ina system, To observe the effect ofthe system coupling factor a dynamie simulation platform is constructed and simulation tests are performed. The rests show that the higher the system coupling factors, te lager ise otal delta ‘loss under partial load conditions. Based on ths indicator, certain problems of system design can be reviewed from the perspective of terminal coupling Low delat syndrome 1© 2013 Flsevies BY. All rights reserved 1. Introduction Fan coll units (FCUs) are widely used in office buildings, hotels, shopping malls, and other buildings. The most common problem in chilled water circulation systems with FCUs is the low éelta-T syndrome, where the temperature differential between the water supplied and returned from the terminals, which is referred t0 as the total delta-Tis sigificantiy lower than its designed value, par- ticularly under partial load conditions. This condition wastes pump power and decreases system efficiency. One reason for the low delta-T syndrome in chilled water sys~ emis the degradation of the heat transfer performance ofthe coils [1.2], often as a result of increased coil fouling, low in-col ait tem- perature caused by fresh air, decreased air volumetric low rate high supplied water temperature caused by a deficit low in the bypass line, and soon. ‘Another reason isthe coupling of FCUS [3]. CUs use on-off con- trolled water valves. Within system, when certain FCUs shut down their water valves, the chilled water flow rates ofthe other FCUs increase and the water delta-T of the other FCUs decrease, which rests in lower total delta-T. Although the coupling of terminals signficanely affects total deita-T performance, a quantitative evaluation is lacking in the “ovesponding autor a Sulding Energy Research Center Tinga Unvets, Erma addres shengchang 2650gal.com(€ Chan, 0378-7785 - see rontmacer© 2013 lever BY. Al ih reared. literature, which limits the current understanding of the charac- teristics of chilled water circulation systems with FCUs. As a result, certain significant topics of system design have not been studied {rom the perspective of coupling. For instance, the use of balance valves is disputed in a number af literatures (7), But an analysis nits effect on system coupling seems lacking, This study presents a quantitative analysis of terminal coupling. Aniindicatoris used to evaluate the total degree of coupling wichin ‘the system, To observe the effects of coupling degree on the sys- tem characteristics a simulation analysis is carried out based on a and shown in Table 4 ‘he system coupling factors 47 in the three cases are calculated and shown in Table 5 52, Forming the O-Gy curve ‘The two steps to form the Gy curve ofthe system in Case 1 are as follows. First, the equipment and human heat gains of the 50 rooms are given, Different rooms have different heat gains. The average partial load ratio of the 50 rooms is approximately 50%. Allroom a temperatures are well maintained. Asan example, the

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