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Due to the wide application of floor heating systems, the radiant floor cooling systems has developed rapidly in recent years. In this paper, TRNSYS numerical simulation methods are used to study the influence of chilled water supply temperature and flow rate on the cold storage characteristics of a standard floor structure for office buildings in northern China. The results are verified by experimental measurements. The functional relationship between the saturated cold storage time and the chilled water flow rate is quadratic polynomial, while the changes of supply-water temperature have no effect on the saturation time; the supply-water temperature has a linear relationship with the saturated cold storage volume, while the chilled water flow rate has almost no effect on the saturation cold storage volume. The accumulated cold volume of floor changes with time in an exponential distribution with four coefficients, and the floor has the characteristics of rapid cold storage. This paper is instructive for the design, application and promotion of radiant floor cooling systems.
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This study is financially supported by the Plan of Guidance and Cultivation for Young Innovative Talents of Shandong Provincial Colleges and Universities, and is financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51808321).
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Wang, X., Man, Y., Zhang, L. et al. Dynamic Research on Cold Storage Performance of a Standard Radiant Floor Cooling System for Office Buildings in Northern China. J. Therm. Sci. 31, 1928–1938 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11630-022-1538-4
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