Wood-oven w/ water heater: calculate energy transfer

Energy
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Hi guys, I am currently working on calculating the Energy (Watt-hors) my wood oven transfers to the H/P reservoir.

Basic system:

  • Heat Pumpe, 3.6kW el. / 10kW heat power, ground-source, fed by PV
  • Wood oven with water jacket, generates 15kW of heat of which 5kW go into the room’s air, 10kW go into the water
  • Heat reservoir, 1.000l of water, feeding my entire home’s heating and hot water
  • Pump (1800lpm) and 3-way mixer, PID-controlled oven influx temperature of min. 60°C (to avoid soot) - three temp readings done by a Shelly UNI (oven return, oven feed - mixed, reservoir feed pre-mixer)
  • Heat reservoir feed temperature from oven: 64-80°C

Scope:

  • Calculate the transfer ratio from the total oven water throughput into the heat reservoir in percent, based on three temperatures (oven input, oven output, heat reservoir cold water input)
  • Calculate the energy transfer (in kWh), based on water temperature, pump throughput and transfer ration
  • Display both results in HASS

Problem:

  • Ratio calculated but, cannot calc the energy transfer

Function Code snippets:

  • Transfer Ratio
// Assuming msg.payload contains the temperature sensor data
var temperature1 = msg.payload["sensor.shelly_uni_0_6_6_c_ladepumpe_temperature_1"] || 0; // Temperature from sensor
var temperature2 = msg.payload["sensor.shelly_uni_0_6_6_c_ladepumpe_temperature_2"] || 0;
var temperature3 = msg.payload["sensor.shelly_uni_0_6_6_c_ladepumpe_temperature_3"] || 0;

// Calculate the heat transfer ratio
var heatTransferRatio = 100 - ((temperature2 - temperature3) / (temperature1 - temperature3)) * 100;

// Round the result to the nearest whole number
heatTransferRatio = Math.round(heatTransferRatio);

// Set the heat transfer ratio as a global variable
global.set("heatTransferRatio", heatTransferRatio);

// Set the heat transfer ratio as the payload
msg.payload = heatTransferRatio;
return msg;
  • Energy Transfer:
// Assuming msg.payload contains the temperature sensor data
var temperature1 = msg.payload["sensor.shelly_uni_0_6_6_c_ladepumpe_temperature_1"]; // Temperature from sensor

// Pump flow rate in liters per minute
var pumpFlowRateLitersPerMinute = 1800;

// Specific heat capacity of water in J/(kg·°C)
var specificHeatCapacityOfWater = 4186; // This is an approximate value, you may need to adjust it

// Density of water in kg/L
var densityOfWater = 1; // This is an approximate value for room temperature

// Access the heat transfer ratio from the global variable
var heatTransferRatio = global.get(heatTransferRatio) || 0;

// Calculate the mass of water in kg
var massOfWater = (heatTransferRatio / 100) * pumpFlowRateLitersPerMinute * densityOfWater;

// Calculate the energy transferred in joules
var energyJoules = massOfWater * specificHeatCapacityOfWater * temperature1;

// Convert joules to watts
var energyWatts = energyJoules / 60; // Assuming 60 seconds in a minute

// Set the result as the payload
msg.payload = energyWatts;
return msg;

Won’t work. “Error: Invalid context key”
I also tried to join the percent and oven-temperature into one message to feed the function node. No success.

Any idea?

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Update:
I did join all three parameters into an array and now the delivered heat in kiloWatts works:

// Assuming msg.payload contains the temperature sensor data
// var temperature1 = msg.payload["sensor.shelly_uni_0_6_6_c_ladepumpe_temperature_1"]; // Temperature from sensor Output
// var temperature2 = msg.payload["sensor.shelly_uni_0_6_6_c_ladepumpe_temperature_2"]; // Temperature from sensor Input

// Assuming msg.payload is an array of numbers
var numbersArray = msg.payload;

// Calculate the Temperature differenceputput-input
var deltaTemperature = numbersArray[0] - numbersArray[1];

// Pump flow rate in liters per minute (based on 1800 litres per hour)
var pumpFlowRateLitersPerMinute = 30;

// Specific heat capacity of water in J/(kg·°C)
var specificHeatCapacityOfWater = 4186; // This is an approximate value, you may need to adjust it

// Density of water in kg/L
var densityOfWater = 1; // This is an approximate value for room temperature

// Access the heat transfer ratio from the global variable
var heatTransferRatio = numbersArray[2];

// Calculate the mass of water in kg
var massOfWater = (heatTransferRatio / 100) * pumpFlowRateLitersPerMinute * densityOfWater;

// Calculate the energy transferred in joules
var energyJoules = massOfWater * specificHeatCapacityOfWater * deltaTemperature;

// Convert joules to watts
var powerWatts = energyJoules / 60; // Assuming 60 seconds in a minute

// Convert watts to kilowatts
var powerkiloWatts = powerWatts / 1000;

// Set the result as the payload
msg.payload = powerkiloWatts;
msg.topic = 'OvenPowerkiloWatts'

return msg;

Next challenge is on, how to display this in the HASSio dashboard as a gauge.
I’m still fiddling around with the “call service” node without success.

3

Now,

here’s the entire setup for Node-Red, based on a 3-way mixer with temperature adaptation to have the oven water inlet to be always above 55°C to prevent soot.
For the ease of calculation, all variables were converted to global ones plus, sensors were set to display core values in HASSio:

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`

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Now, using the Riemann-integral the energy my wood-fired oven transfers to the house is easily calculated.

Nevertheless, I still cannot have this “oven” being integrated into the ENERGY-Dashborad - it simply won’t show up.
Any idea what needs to be configured?