Recently, a heat source system utilizing a heat storage tank for energy savings in buildings was designed. A heat storage tank is an effective system for solving the qualitative and quantitative differences in the required building energy. On the other hand, the existing design process of a heat storage system is difficult to determine if the air-conditioning time is unclear, and the design in ...

The purpose of this study is the definition and conception of a measurement system capable of continuously determining the level of carbon type bulk products, stored in a large-sized tank (mine shaft). This storage system has several supply circuits and a tapping circuit using motorized conveyor belts. The measurement system, associated with a data processing procedure, makes it possible to est...

In a distributed storage system, recovering from multiple failures is a critical and frequent task that is crucial for maintaining the system’s reliability and fault-tolerance. In this work, we focus on the problem of repairing multiple failures in a centralized way, which can be desirable in many data storage configurations, and we show that a significant repair traffic reduction is possible. ...

The present paper deals with the optimization of a multi-energy district boiler (La Rochelle, France) which supplies domestic hot water and heats residential and public buildings, using renewable and fossil resources. First, a combination of white, grey and black boxes was used to model the plant, thanks to a modular approach. Next, a stratified thermal storage tank was modelled and completed t...

Fire and explosion accidents often occur in storage tanks leading to great economic loss and serious casualties during the working, operation and maintenance. This paper established a reduced-scale storage tank experimental system, and then the explosion characteristics of gasoline-air mixture in storage tank were studied. The experimental results show that several parameters (such as concentra...

Abstract— The main aim of this study was to control the nonlinear process using multi-model PI controller. A multi model is developed for conical tank and it is validated against the real time setup conical tank process. A Multi model based PI controller is also developed, and implemented with realtime setup, and their performances are compared with that of the conventional controller of real t...

Pumping station Pumping station 1 Filtered and chlorinated 1 0.5 27 + – From plant B to pumping station, 17.5 km Pumping station 2 Filtered and chlorinated 1 >2.5 26 – – From pumping station site 1 to pumping station site 2, 3.5 km Catchment areas: consumer households Household 1, underground storage tank Filtered and chlorinated 1 0.5 29 + – From pumping station site 2 to household 1, 2.03 km ...

By dynamically measuring solar storage&& temperature(s), the solar storage tank effectively becomes a dynamic calorimeter to measure the energy flows in a solar system. The energy flows include solar loop gain, tank losses, and potentially draw extraction. With one-channel temperature loggers storing data over several days to several weeks, this approach provides low-cost, modest-accuracy perfo...

The novel ultrasonic NDT technique based on application of long range guided waves is proposed for detection of defects in a storage tank floor. The technique needs access only to the outer edge of the tank floor and do not require emptying and cleaning inside of the tank. The technique has been developed on the basis of the Lamb wave transmission tomography. The propagation of the guided waves...