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Examining the Possibility of Heat Recovery During Sanitation of Sewage Collectors

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The problem of heat recovery from sewage effluents is considered. It is shown that the existing technical solutions to this problem are not reliable enough, because in most cases they involve direct contact of wastewater with the heat transfer medium, which can lead to clogging of the heat extraction system. It is shown that another problem of the operation of sewer collectors is the need to carry out large-scale repair works of collectors with critical service life. It is shown that both of these problems can be solved when using collector blocks based on spirally wound plastic pipes from a hollow rectangular profile for rehabilitation. Evaluation of the efficiency of heat recovery of sewage effluents when using blocks of sewage collectors of this type was carried out. A simplified model of heat transfers from wastewater in the cylindrical part of the collector to the heat transfer medium fed into the spiral channel in its wall is developed. Analytical expressions were obtained that allow estimating the amount of heat that can be extracted from each meter of the collector of the structure under study. It is shown that the main parameter that limits the amount of heat that can be removed using the studied collector is of the spiral channel of the heat transfer medium. It is proposed to use pipes with a multi-start spiral winding for increasing the throughput. The problems of further theoretical and experimental collectors of the studied type are formulated.

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The study was supported by the European Union Assistance Instrument for the Fulfillment of Ukraine's Commitments in the Horizon 2020 Framework Program for Research and Innovation of the European Union as a part of the scientific research project “The development of intelligent energy-efficient system of the centralized district heating supply networks with integration of renewable energy sources” (Reg. No. 0123U102775).

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Biletskyi, I., Plankovskyy, S., Tsegelnyk, Y., Teliura, N., Osinska, M. (2023). Examining the Possibility of Heat Recovery During Sanitation of Sewage Collectors. In: Arsenyeva, O., Romanova, T., Sukhonos, M., Biletskyi, I., Tsegelnyk, Y. (eds) Smart Technologies in Urban Engineering. STUE 2023. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 808. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-46877-3_31

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