Google plate heat exchangers and thermal stores. Without you posting much more information on what type of system you have we can't help you.
What is this lump of copper and is it worth much?
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Google plate heat exchangers and thermal stores. Without you posting much more information on what type of system you have we can't help you.
You've took it out haven't you
Amazing specs Dickie, well worth the effort!!
OK here's the figures; Incoming water main Temp 8*C Hot Water outlet Temp 50*C Primary Flow Temp 64*C Primary Return Temp 54*C Shower head flow rate 5Ltr/min
Seriously???
Ah, but that's with Olive holding her thumb over the end of the hose Raz!!
Not bad temperature rise though 42*C??
I guess with some finite adjustments, Olive could wash her minge with a reasonable flow rate from the shower head & forego one of the two packets of Daz required for her morning shower??!!
Yes, it has been taken out so can assume that we are starting from a clean slate.
I know what a heat exchanger is, the bit nobody has unfortunately made clear for me, is if a boiler does its job to heat the water for central heating or for the storage cylinder, generally speaking why would a heat exchange like this (which is not in the boiler) be used. Forget about my existing setup, because I don't know what quirky setup the previous owner had (and I've never lived in the house since I bought it), so trying to understand in what circumstances these copper contraptions would be used in a domestic install? If you said "because not enough heat getting to the loft or to an annex and this contraption does X, then I would have a better understanding"......
You say you understand what a heat exchanger is, then in the next sentence don't understand and what yours does.
Did you look up Thermal stores?
Did you look up Thermal stores?
So I think this was placed near the hot water cylinder before it was ripped out by the builders. Again, it stores heat, I'm guessing it takes the hot water from either the old aga or the boiler (part of the house was heated by the aga which fed the cylinder and part of the other side of the house by a Valiant boiler). Still doesnt tell me why they would have had a device that offered thermal store when the boiler etc was there.
What do you think heated the store?
Because i haven't got the time to type reams of text for questions you've half answered yourself. Why do people not want to comprehend the nature of what they're asking?
Thermal stores are heated by boilers. Thermal stores then distribute heat to where it is needed.
If hot water is needed the heat is used to heat the primary side of the plate whilst tap water goes through the secondary side.
Your plate heat exchanger is for that.
Thermal stores are heated by boilers. Thermal stores then distribute heat to where it is needed.
If hot water is needed the heat is used to heat the primary side of the plate whilst tap water goes through the secondary side.
Your plate heat exchanger is for that.
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