<p class="MsoNormal">Hi all,</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I have a question about Type 700, the boiler component, if
someone has experience with it. I have a flow profile running into a tank, with
a boiler loop circulating through it to meet the energy demand. Boiler is set
to 1 million kJ/hr which is just enough to meet the temperature demand of the
tank at its peak load.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Here is the problem:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I have my flow operating 4 days out of the week. At first I
only had the boiler turning off when the temperature was met (controller with
2, -2 deadbands). When I looked at the required boiler energy input integrated
over the course of the year, the number looked right, but I wanted to reduce
it. In order to do this, I used another controller on a time delay to lock out
the first controller the other 3 days of the week, so the boiler wasn’t trying
to heat the tank all weekend wasting useless energy.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">What I noticed however was the required energy input barely
changed. I know the new controller works properly, because I can now see the
tank temperature dropping after the first 4 days and then not rising until a
few hours before the start of the week.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I think the energy savings should be more significant. I’m
only saving around 10 therms a year in a 8500 gallon system. This is very
small. The boiler should be saving that at least every day it is turned off.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Any ideas why the difference is so small?</p>