.Buildings.DHC.Plants.Steam.SingleBoiler

Information

This is a generic steam plant model that can be used in district heating system simulations. The model contains a feedwater tank, feedwater pump, check valve, and a boiler. The boiler is designed to discharge saturated steam vapor. For controls, the feedwater pump maintains the water volume setpoint in the drum boiler, while the boiler control maintains the discharge pressure setpoint.

References

Kathryn Hinkelman, Saranya Anbarasu, Michael Wetter, Antoine Gautier, Wangda Zuo. 2022. “A Fast and Accurate Modeling Approach for Water and Steam Thermodynamics with Practical Applications in District Heating System Simulation,” Energy, 254(A), pp. 124227. 10.1016/j.energy.2022.124227

Kathryn Hinkelman, Saranya Anbarasu, Michael Wetter, Antoine Gautier, Baptiste Ravache, Wangda Zuo 2022. “Towards Open-Source Modelica Models For Steam-Based District Heating Systems.” Proc. of the 1st International Workshop On Open Source Modelling And Simulation Of Energy Systems (OSMSES 2022), Aachen, German, April 4-5, 2022. 10.1109/OSMSES54027.2022.9769121

Revisions

• September 15, 2023, by Kathryn Hinkelman:
  Added publication references.
• July 18, 2023, by Michael Wetter:
  Corrected assignment of allowFlowReversal, and set start pressure of boiler to be equal to start pressure of feed water tank. Otherwise, backflow occurs at the start of the simulation.
• March 3, 2022 by Kathryn Hinkelman:
  First implementation.