Method of and arrangement for the seasonal storage and use of hot water produced in particular by electrical power-generating thermal and nuclear stations
AssigneeCompagnie Francaise d'Etudes et de Construction "Technip"
InventorsLouis H. D. Denis, Abel J. H. Bedue, Jacques Malherbaud
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Abstract
A large capacity tank for the seasonal storage of hot water from electrical power-generating thermal and nuclear plants to be used seasonally to heat buildings, consisting of a large basin which comprises partitions dividing the basin into several portions communicating with each other in parallel and/or series relationship, at least one hot water supply input from said plants, leading to the distribution systems which open into one portion of the basin and at least one cold make-up and/or return water supply input for the distribution systems opening into another portion of said basin.
Claims32
A large-capacity tank for seasonal storage of hot water, produced for example by electric power generating thermal and nuclear stations, and for their seasonal use, for example for the heating of buildings, comprising:
- a basin of large surface area;
- partition walls provided in said basin dividing said basin into a plurality of distinct elongated storage zones, each elongated storage zone having two separated ends;
- first means coupled to one end of each of said elongated storage zones for supplying and recovering hot water stored in said elongated storage zones;
- second means coupled to the other end of each of said elongated storage zones for supplying and recovering cold water stored in said elongated storage zones;
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- means coupled to said first and second means for controlling the flows of water such that an instantaneous supply of hot water at one end of one of said elongated storage zones is balanced by a corresponding drawing off of cold water at the other end of another of said elongated storage zones, and such that an instantaneous drawing off of hot water at one end of said one elongated storage zone is balanced by a corresponding supply of cold water at the other end of said another elongated storage zone, said one and another elongated storage zones providing together a substantially constant body of storage water.
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