With the increase of the application scale of renewable energy low-temperature heating system, it is becoming an inevitable requirement to design a new-type heating terminal with good thermal performance, flexible adjustment, and high combination with buildings. In this study, an enhanced convection-radiant wall panel with orifices (CRWPO) is designed and tested. A full-scale CRWPO experimental system was built in a laboratory, and the radiation and convection heat transfer process were measured under different supply water temperatures, orifice diameters, and densities conditions to determine optimal operating conditions. The main intentions of the experimental research include: (1) testing the actual heating effect of the CRWPO heating terminal under the experimental conditions, (2) analyzing the impacts of different design and operation parameters on the thermal performance of CRWPO, and obtaining the ratio of convection to radiation heat dissipation, and (3) summarizing the radiant/convective heat supply of the CRWPO under different working conditions and providing a reference for the heating terminal design. The results showed that enhanced convection heat transfer is achieved by setting orifices on the radiant wall panel. Compared to a wall panel without orifices, the total heat transfer quantity increased by 57%. Furthermore, the heat flux stability time of the CRWPO is about 1–1.5 h, which is about 2–4 h shorter than that of a traditional heavy-weight radiation terminal. Furthermore, The radiation-convection heat transfer ratio decreased from 1.89 to 0.75 when the orifice diameter increased from 0 mm to 20 mm.
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