2002 Volume 27 Issue 84 Pages 107-114
The authors have manufactured new experimental equipment of a multi-tank-combined thermal storage water tank. The equipment is a larger and stricter version of the previous one. The latest production is intended to work out basic materials necessary to design an efficient thermal storage water tank and to confirm the performance of a thermal storage tank due to be designed and put into operation in the future by running the new experimental equipment on a trial basis. The first report covers the outline of the experimental equipment and results of the controllability test of the equipment and test aimed to discover factors affecting the performance of a multi-tank-combined thermal storage water tank. The outcome of the tests conducted under various conditions shows that the efficiency of the thermal storage tank was high when it was deeper (1000 millmeters), smaller in Frude Number (Fr=2), smaller in diameter (100 millimeters), and split into many (six) sections.
