The influence of uniform flow orifice on the effect of Naturally stratified Chilled water-storage tank

The widely use of cooled storage technology in our country will be an irreversible trend with the development and improvement of the TOU price policy. Naturally stratified Chilled water-storage is a very important cool storage technology. In this paper, the effect of using uniform flow orifice in naturally stratified water-storage with slotted pipe diffuser is studied by contrast experiments firstly. Then the cases with uniform flow orifice are simulated. Through the comparison of experimental data and simulation data, the correctness of the mathematical model is verified. Finally, the effect of water-storage is studied by simulation when the uniform flow orifice is set with different voltage drop. Conclusions can be obtained as follows: the layered effect is greatly improved by setting the uniform flow orifice; it is when the voltage drop of uniform flow orifice is in an appropriate range which is about ten to tens Pa that the improvement is obvious.