179results about "District heating system" patented technology

The present invention relates to heating systems for umbrella-shaped structures. The heating system may include a shroud or umbrella-shaped structure defining an inner volume, and a plurality of electrical infrared heating elements positioned generally downward facing in the inner volume of the shroud. The shroud may include radially extending support structures to which the heating elements are mounted.

A heat exchanger for heat exchange between a first and a second fluid and comprising a cylindrical casing 2 , a cylindrical fluid conduit 5 arranged inside the casing such that an axially extending tubular space 8 is defined, at least one helical coil 9, 10 of a finned or corrugated tube being arranged inside the tubular space, and adjustable throttle means 17, 17 a , 18 adapted and arranged for adjustably throttling flow of the first fluid through the conduit 5 to adjust the flow of the first fluid through the conduit and the first tubular space for adjusting the heat exchange between the first fluid and the second fluid flowing through the helical coils 9, 10.

A device, such as a heat meter for measurements of hot tap water energy usage, separated from building heating energy usage, in a district heating substation. The device is connected only to sensors attached to the supply pipe and return pipe of the district heating substation. A device, such as a heat meter, has a detector to detect a deviation in the total power (P) usage in the district heating substation which deviation depends on the use of warm tap water. The device may be used to calculate energy consumption in the heat exchanger related to building heating, and the energy consumption in the second heat exchanger related to tap water heating. The device may be used to calculate energy consumption for tap water heating, which relates to the duration of the deviation.

The present invention relates to heating systems for umbrella-shaped structures. The heating system may include a shroud or umbrella-shaped structure defining an inner volume, and a plurality of electrical infrared heating elements positioned generally downward facing in the inner volume of the shroud. The shroud may include radially extending support structures to which the heating elements are mounted.

A system and method for operating a building heating system. The system includes a controller that operates the heating system in three modes of operation. The controller controls a valve that regulates the flow of steam to the building water loop. By maintaining a constant steam flow rate during peak demand periods, steam consumption during peak demand periods are reduced while maintaining a comfortable environment within the building.

Disclosed herein are a humanoid robot that compensates for a zero moment point (ZMP) error during finite state machine (FSM)-based walking to achieve stable walking and a walking control method thereof. The humanoid robot compensates for a joint position trajectory command or a joint torque command using compensation values calculated based on situations divided according to the position of a calculated ZMP and the position of a measured ZMP in a stable region of the robot.

A district energy sharing system (DESS) comprises a thermal energy circuit which circulates and stores thermal energy in water, at least one client building thermally coupled to the circuit and which removes some thermal energy from the circuit ("thermal sink") and / or deposits some thermal energy into the circuit ("thermal source"), and at least one thermal server plant that can be thermally coupled to external thermal sources and / or sinks (e.g. a geothermal ground source) and whose function is to maintain thermal balance within the DESS.

A heat pump system is disclosed comprising a heat-exchanger extracting latent heat from liquid stored in a reservoir, thereby forming an ice slurry. The heat pump also includes a device for delivering the heat to a heat consumer. The heat pump system includes a random input of extrinsic liquid into the reservoir and a device for removing ice slurry stored in the reservoir outward the system.

A district energy network interconnecting a plurality of thermal loads and for redistributing thermal energy therebetween, the network comprising: a primary circuit loop for working fluid, at least two thermal loads thermally connected to the primary circuit loop, at least one of the thermal loads being capable of taking heat from the primary circuit loop and at least one of the thermal loads being capable of rejecting heat into the primary circuit loop, an energy centre connected to the loop and capable of acting as a heat source or a heat sink, and a control system adapted to provide to the primary circuit loop a positive or negative thermal input from the energy centre as a balancing thermal input to compensate for net thermal energy lost to or gained from the at least two thermal loads by the primary circuit loop.

A dehumidifying cooling device for district heating is developed that comprising; a case with partitions divided into interior, which are a wet channel consisting of an outside air suction, exhaust and a dry channel for circulated air suction from conditioning area and air supply; a rotating sensible heat exchanger to heat exchange outside air of wet channel with the circulated air in the dry channel; a heating coil between the sensible heat exchanger and the exhaust for raising the temperature of outside air; a dehumidifying wheel for adsorbing and removing moisture contained in the circulated air; the dehumidifying wheel being regenerated by evaporating the adsorbed moisture thereby supplying the evaporated moisture into the high-temperature outside air in the wet channel, and a regenerative-evaporative cooler installed between the circulated air supply and the sensible heat exchanger for cooling the circulated air in the dry channel, the cooled circulated air delivered to the air supply.

An induction-displacement neutral wall air terminal unit includes a housing defining a supply airflow path, a connected return airflow path, and a heating airflow path separated from the supply and return airflow paths by at least one interior wall. The unit also includes a plurality of induction-type nozzles located within the supply airflow path, that are deliver a ventilation air flow stream into the supply air flow path. The nozzles induce a return air flow stream through the return air flow path that mixes with the ventilation air flow stream to form a supply air flow stream delivered to a supply air outlet. A heating element is disposed within the heating airflow path to heat air within the heating air flow path. A plurality of fans may be placed within the heating airflow path to increase the overall heating capacity of the unit.

A system and method for operating a steam system, such as a district heating system is provided with provisions for predicting potential water hammer conditions. The system measures steam parameters as inputs into a steam system engine. The steam system engine uses physics models and empirical steam flow behavior models to determine a condensate parameter such as rate of condensate generation and condensate levels within the system. When the condensate parameter exceeds a threshold, a signal is transmitted to the system operator so that actions may be taken to alleviate or prevent undesired conditions.

Process and device for controlling the temperature of an outbound secondary flow in a secondary circuit from a heat exchanger by a primary flow in a primary circuit, via a member that regulates the primary flow, influenced by a control unit. The enthalpy difference between inbound and outbound primary flow to and from the heat exchanger and the secondary flow are determined. The flow in the primary circuit is determined, and the parameters are supplied to the control unit for controlling the member, whereby the primary flow is controlled in dependence of the secondary flow, so that power supplied to the heat exchanger substantially equals the sum of the power needed to raise the temperature of the secondary flow from the initial temperature to the desired outbound temperature; the assumed power requirement for compensating for energy stored in the heat exchanger; and the assumed leak power from the heat exchanger.

A conditioning or heating plant and a process of controlling the plant, wherein plant comprises at least one circuit for distributing a carrier fluid, having a delivery line, a return line, and a plurality of channels directly or indirectly connected to the delivery line and return line and configured for supplying respective environments to be conditioned and / or heated, at least one heat treatment central group placed on the circuit. The plant has, for each of the channels, at least one respective heat exchange unit and at least one flow-rate regulator.

An energy-saving system using electric heat pump to recover flue gas waste heat for district heating uses flue gas waste heat recovery tower to absorb the sensible and latent heat in the high-temperature flue gas by direct contact heat and mass transfer. The circulating water is sprayed from the top and the flue gas flows upwards in the tower. The electric heat pump is indirectly connected with circulating water through the anti-corrosion and high-efficiency water-water plate heat exchanger. The return water of the heat-supply network enters the electric heat pump through the anti-corrosion and high-efficiency water-water plate heat exchanger and exchanges heat indirectly with the high-temperature circulating water. The electric heat pump uses the electric energy of the power plant as the driving power.

The invention relates to a heat exchanger with a temperature sensor and especially a heat exchanger usable for heating hot water using district heating water. The heat exchanger (1) contains plates (2) placed in a pack and brazed together so that 5 separate channels for first (Fj) and second (VV) media are formed between alternate pairs of plates; two pairs of connections for inlet (3) and outlet (4) for the first medium and inlet (5) and outlet (6) for the second medium, respectively; and a temperature sensor (9) connectable to a valve (7) to control supply of the first medium through the heat exchanger. The first medium is intended to supply heat to 10 the second medium. The temperature sensor (9) is placed through a number of plates and in heat conducting contact with them such that the temperature sensor controls the first valve.

The invention relates to a coal-gas combined heating supply method, belonging to HVAC area. The first step of said method is that small peak-shaving boiler with burning gas, as peak-shaving thermal source, running with the parallel of central heat network, is set in each thermal station of civil thermal network with the heat source, which is the boiler in the huge heat supply or coal-burning region. Said secondary backwater is that first heat exchanger obtains quantity of heat generated by the boiler of coal-burning thermal power station or huge coal-burning region and transmitted by the first pipe network, and then it is heated furthermore by small gas-burning peak-shaving boiler so that independent adjusting in time on each heat supply region is accomplished. Thermal resource only bears the basic load of heat supply and the lack of heat is compensated by small gas-burning peak-shaving boiler in each thermal power station. The heat value is changed as the relation of climate and requirement changes. Said first network also bears adjusting action.

The invention discloses a system and a method for concentrated monitoring of scattered boilers. The system comprises a signal acquisition unit arranged on a boiler and a cyclic digital display instrument connected with the signal acquisition unit, and is characterized in that the cyclic digital display instrument is connected to a GPRS communication module, the INTERNET through the GPRS network of China Mobile, and then a work station through a router and a hub; and monitoring personnel acquire data by visiting the work station and the INTERNET and conducts real-time monitoring, so as to achieve long-distance monitoring and concentrated monitoring of the scattered boilers. The invention has the advantages that long-distance monitoring of scattered boilers can be achieved through the INTERNET and a LAN (local area network), so that hidden dangers can be discovered in time, thereby guaranteeing safe operation of the boilers.

A system is shown for providing domestic hot water for potable use. The energy source is a steam powered heat exchanger. Water is heated in a heat engine package including the heat exchanger, a temperature operated pump and a condensate control valve. The heat package works in conjunction with a water storage package including a water storage tank and an electronic controller which controls the operation of the pump and condensate control valve. The electronic controller is operated so that the control of steam supplied to the system and flow of water through the heat exchanger ensures that steam is only present in the heat exchanger when there is a predetermined high flow rate of water.

A nonvolatile semiconductor memory includes a cell array, redundancy array, erase circuit, timer, and controller. The cell array has a plurality of memory cells. The redundancy array has a plurality of redundant cells capable of replacing the memory cell. The erase circuit performs an erase operation on a target cell including the memory cell or the redundant cell. The timer measures the time elapsed from the start of the erase operation performed for the target cell by the erase circuit. The controller stops the erase operation and replaces the target cell with the redundant cell, when detecting that a predetermined time has elapsed from the start of the erase operation by the measurement of the elapsed time by the timer.

The invention relates to a heat exchanger with a temperature sensor and especially a heat exchanger usable for heating hot water using district heating water. The heat exchanger (1) contains plates (2) placed in a pack and brazed together so that 5 separate channels for first (Fj) and second (VV) media are formed between alternate pairs of plates; two pairs of connections for inlet (3) and outlet (4) for the first medium and inlet (5) and outlet (6) for the second medium, respectively; and a temperature sensor (9) connectable to a valve (7) to control supply of the first medium through the heat exchanger The first medium is intended to supply heat to 10 the second medium. The temperature sensor (9) is placed through a number of plates and in heat conducting contact with them such that the temperature sensor controls the first valve.

A method and system for optimizing the operation of a geo-exchange system, by generating predictive models pertaining to energy demand and energy capacity for a particular building or district, based on data from sensors associated with components of a district geo-exchange system, historical and real-time operational data associated with district modules, including weather forecast data and current weather conditions.

A fuel cell unit system is disclosed, which is provided in a multi-home energy supplying system, wherein the multi-home energy supplying system includes the plurality of fuel cell unit system provided to respective houses, and one common-use reforming unit to supply hydrogen to the plurality of fuel cell unit system, the fuel cell unit systems (40) comprising a stack unit (300) which generates electricity by an electrochemical reaction between supplied air and the hydrogen supplied from the common-use reforming unit (10); an air supplying unit (100) which supplies the air to the stack unit; an integral heat exchange unit (500) which cools the stack unit by recovering the heat from the stack unit, and stores the recovered heat; a hot-water supplying unit (200) which receives the heat stored in the integral heat exchange unit, and provides heat and hot water; an auxiliary heat supplying unit (400) which generates the heat by receiving the air supplied from the air supplying unit, and the hydrogen directly supplied from the common-use reforming unit or discharged from the stack unit after the electrochemical reaction, and supplies the generated heat to the hot-water supplying unit; and an electric output unit (600) which converts the electricity generated in the stack unit into a utility power, and supplies the produced utility power to the respective houses.

In a building, electric storage heaters (204) receive off peak electricity, generate thermal energy and store this thermal energy for later release. Each storage heater has a local control device (201) for controlling thermal energy generated during the reception of the off peak electricity. Each local control device receives a generation schedule from a building control device (207). Each building control device controls many local control devices and transmits information to a central control device (208). The central control device transmits generation schedules to many building control devices. Each schedule is constructed in response to room related data supplied by the local control devices, building related data supplied by the building control devices and regional data supplied to the central control device.

A variable output heating control system includes a user interface, an operating parameter sensor, a controller, a combination control valve, a plurality of variable flow valves, and a plurality of burners. The user interface allows a user to enter operating parameters, such as a set temperature. The operating parameters sensor provides measured parameters, such as a measured temperature. The controller receives the set temperature and the measured temperature and generates commands to control the flow of gas, based on the set temperature and the measured temperature. The combination control valve shuts off the flow of gas from an external gas source based on a command from the controller. The plurality of variable flow valves vary the flow of gas that is received from the combination control valve and supplied to the burners. The plurality of burners provide heat based on the combustion of gas that is received from the plurality of variable flow valves.

The invention discloses a long-distance district heating system based on thermoelectric synergy and a thermoelectric synergy method. The long-distance district heating system specifically comprises amain heating heat source, a main heating network system, an auxiliary heat storage and supply system and a synergic power generation system module. The heat storage technology and the new energy powergeneration technology are adopted to cooperate with a district heating network in a synergic mode, heat storage and the heat network are combined, on the one hand, the problems that a long-distance district heating system conducts whole network operation under the low load working condition, thus, the heat waste is large, and the safety is low are solved, on the other hand, the problem that the heating load of the heat network under the peak heating condition is not enough is solved, the investment cost of the heat network is reduced to a certain extent, and the economical efficiency is improved. According to the long-distance district heating system, heat storage and the heat network are combined, the economical problem of synergy between new energy power generation and a power grid is solved, the problem about the heat storage electricity utilization cost is solved, and the new energy power generation economical efficiency and the heat network heat storage and supply economical efficiency are sufficiently achieved.

A recurrent distribution network provides an embedded, cost-based decision mechanism for a real-time, closed-loop process control system that outputs to multiple controllable output devices while observing numerous input constraints. A global incremental distribution request to increase or decrease a controlled process variable is accepted by a recurrent neural network. The network iteratively solves and applies a distribution of a global incremental request to multiple controllable output devices based on individual incremental unit costs, output ranges, output scaling and process input constraint limits.

For regulating the power output of a combined-cycle power station, that power output fraction which is allocated to the uncoupling of distance heat is determined as a second desired value by adopting the mass flow or mass flows of a medium to be heated through one or more heating condensers and the forward-flow and return-flow temperatures of the medium to be heated which occur at the same time. The quantities can be determined in a simple way in the region of the uncoupling of the distance heat. Thus, complicated measurements in the region of a steam turbine, by which the heating condensers are supplied with heating steam, are avoided.