Advantages
The ideal infrastructure for thermal systems developers, systems manufacturers, system installers, control system developers and consumer organisations to test and monitor their applications.
Testing possibilities:
- Static and Dynamic tests of:
- Boilers, burners, control systems, hot tap water appliances, ...
- Cogeneration units: engines, turbines, μCHP’s, ORC’s, ...
- Heat pump systems: water-water and air-water systems
- Thermal energy storage systems: both sensible and latent heat
- District heating components: substations, district heating pipes, control systems,…
- Control systems of thermal applications
- Heat delivery systems: radiators, floor heating systems, …
- Combinations of systems: heat pumps and thermal energy storage, combined heat and power and thermal energy storage, distributed thermal energy storage, sorption systems, …
- Including renewable energy sources, e.g. combination with photovoltaics
- Including gas, oil, biogas and electricity
- Highly accurate measurements of energetic performance:
- Temperatures
- Flows
- (Differential) Pressure
- Electrical consumption
- Simulation of different temperature and humidity profiles as well as simulation of continuous (can be modulated) heat or cold losses can be applied in the Thermo Technical Lab’s climate chamber
- Providing field measurement and monitoring of thermal applications
Applications
VITO/EnergyVille’s Thermo Technical Lab has a broad experience in testing heating and cooling equipment and systems.
- Intelligent control of heat pumps for smart grid peak shaving
- Intelligent distributed thermal energy storage
- Static and dynamic tests for space heating and DHW performances of district heating substations (Heat Interface Units)
- Lab testing as part of national and European research projects (FP7 E-hub, Linear, H2020, Rennovates,SALK, ….)
- Efficiency testing of gas heaters
- Energy performance testing of micro-turbines
- Boiler characterization
- Comparative testing of latent energy storage
- State of Charge determination
- Testing of liquid-to-liquid heat exchangers
More information about the labs at EnergyVille and their testing facilities can be found on EnergyVille's website