EcoRenovator - View Single Post - IBC tote tanks in series as low cost HP source

jeff5may · 10-02-14, 10:56 AM

I'm not so sure that a series connect would be more efficient than a parallel with the way you are planning to run the system. With tank 1 on its own, it probably will be valved. It could be used in many different ways. With it fuller (or higher in head level) than the other 9, it could naturally burp the other tanks. In a parallel setup, the tanks would naturally stratify and equalize the stored or harvested heat and transfer more evenly.

10-02-14, 10:56 AM	#5
jeff5may Supreme EcoRenovator Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: elizabethtown, ky, USA Posts: 2,428 Thanks: 431 Thanked 619 Times in 517 Posts	I'm not so sure that a series connect would be more efficient than a parallel with the way you are planning to run the system. With tank 1 on its own, it probably will be valved. It could be used in many different ways. With it fuller (or higher in head level) than the other 9, it could naturally burp the other tanks. In a parallel setup, the tanks would naturally stratify and equalize the stored or harvested heat and transfer more evenly. Last edited by jeff5may; 10-02-14 at 11:01 AM..