Dissertations / Theses: 'District Heating Systems'

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Put, Joris. "The European District Heating Database and Mapping European District Heating Systems." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Sektionen för ekonomi och teknik (SET), 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-15114.

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Kunz, Jakob. "Dynamic behavior of district heating systems /." [S.l.] : [s.n.], 1994. http://library.epfl.ch/theses/?nr=1234.

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Fredriksson, Victor, and Bane Gluhajic. "Heating systems in small houses : A comparison between geothermal heating and district heating." Thesis, KTH, Byggteknik och design, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-253799.

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District heating and geothermal heating are in present times two established heating systems that are often compared against each other. The purpose of this work is to describe which factors influence the choice of heating system during the planning stage and what the costs are for each system. In this paper, a typical house model has been developed and used as a basis for the comparison of both systems. The comparison has been made in the form of energy calculations in the energy calculation program BV2, where heat requirements and regulatory requirements for energy performance have been compared in different geographical areas in Sweden. Furthermore, cost calculations have been carried out based on the energy calculations' results, where investment costs and annual costs have been set against each other. The result of the work shows how the measurement of energy performance differs from the actual amount of purchased energy due to geographical conditions. In the southern parts of Sweden, where the geographical correction factor is below 0, consumers are penalized by raising the primary energy number, unlike the northern parts where the primary energy number is instead lowered. Based on the cost calculations, it can be concluded that district heating, when available, is more economically advantageous in the short term. Geothermal heating on the other hand is a more profitable alternative in the long run. Fjärrvärme och bergvärme är idag två etablerade värmesystem som ofta ställs mot varandra. Syftet med det här arbetet är att redogöra vilka faktorer som påverkar valet av värmesystem under projekteringsstadiet och vilka kostnaderna som finns för respektive system. I arbetet har en typisk husmodel tagits fram och använts som grund för jämförelsen av båda systemen. Jämförelsen har dels gjorts i form av energiberäkningar i energiberäkningsprogrammet BV2 där värmebehov och myndighetskrav på energiprestanda har jämförts i olika geografiska områden i Sverige. Vidare har kostnadsberäkningar genomförts utifrån energiberäkningarnas resultat där investeringskostnader och årliga kostnader har ställts mot varandra. Resultatet av arbetet visar hur måttet på energiprestanda skiljer sig från den faktiska mängden köpt energi på grund ut av geografiska förhållanden. I de södra delarna i Sverige där den geografiska korrigeringsfaktorn understiger 0 straffas konsumenter genom att primärenergitalet höjs, till skillnad mot de norra delarna där primärenergitalet istället sänks. Utifrån kostnadsberäkningarna kan man dra slutsatsen att fjärrvärme, när den finns tillgänglig, är mer ekonomiskt fördelaktigt på kort sikt. Bergvärme å andra sidan är ett mer lönsamt alternativ på lång sikt.

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Wernstedt, Fredrik. "Multi-Agent Systems for District Heating Management." Licentiate thesis, Karlskrona : Blekinge Institute of Technology, 2003. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-00258.

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This thesis investigates the applicability of multi-agent systems as a control approach for district heating systems. The consumers, i.e., the heat exchange systems, in current district heating systems are purely reactive devices and have typically no communication capabilities. They are only able to make local decisions without taking into account the global situation in the system. In this work, the possibilities of a new type of heat exchanger systems that has an open software environment and communication capabilities are explored. Operators of district heating systems have several, often conflicting, goals, e.g., to satisfy the demand of the customers and to minimize production costs. Major concerns are how to cope with the uncertainty caused by discrepancies between the estimated and actual customer demand, and the temporal constraints imposed by the relatively long production and distribution times (up to 24 hours). The approach studied in this thesis is to equip each consumer with an agent that makes predictions of future needs and to form clusters of consumers within which it is possible to redistribute resources fast and at a low cost. The agents have two fundamental goals: the local goal, which is to satisfy the customers’ needs, and the global goal, which is to improve the overall performance of the system by cooperating with the other agents in the cluster. Results from a simulation study indicate that the suggested approach makes it possible to reduce production while maintaining the quality of service. The study also show that it is possible to control the trade-off between quality-of-service and degree of surplus production. In another study, a smallscale experiment in a controlled physical environment, two agent-based approaches are evaluated and compared to existing technologies. The experiment shows that it is possible to automatically load balance a small district heating network using agent technology. Finally, a generalized formal characterization of the problem space under investigation is provided, i.e., production and logistics network management, together with a preliminary evaluation of the applicability of the suggested multi-agent system approach for this general problem area.

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Gong, Mei, Göran Wall, and Sven Werner. "Energy and exergy analysis of district heating systems." Högskolan i Halmstad, Energiteknik, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-20298.

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The concept of exergy is defined and applied to district heating systems. The influence from different reference state conditions and system boundaries are explained in some detail. The aim is to show the simplicity and value of using the concept of exergy when analyzing district heating processes. The exergy factor is introduced and applied for a number of Swedish and Danish district heating systems. This varies from 14.2% to 22.5% for Swedish district heating systems. The higher the exergy factor, the more the exergy losses in the passive conversion towards space heating. Large losses revealed in an exergy treatment of a process should be seen as a challenge to achieve technical improvements of the system.

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Wernstedt, Fredrik. "Multi-agent systems for distributed control of district heating systems /." Karlskrona : Blekinge Institute of Technology, 2005. http://www.bth.se/fou/Forskinfo.nsf/allfirst2/51e3dfb98bb6ba6bc1257107002f6d29?OpenDocument.

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Kamal, Majd. "Potential for low temperature district heating system : Integrating 4th generation district heating system with existing technology." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för ekonomi, samhälle och teknik, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-35816.

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This project presents a feasibility study and an investigation of the potential for low temperature district heating system in Västerås. The investigation treats integrations possibilities for 4GDH (4th Generation District Heating) in Kungsängens area in Västerås, which is undergoing a large-scale building-up and construction. The study is conducted for the company Mälarenergi AB. The advantages of 4GDH technology are identified and analyzed, where energy effectiveness and economic benefits aspects were concluded. Problems with existing technology and higher cooling demand expectations drive 4GDH to be an interesting and necessary technology in the future. Four Different integration solutions between old and new networks are presented, analyzed and discussed. Quantitative analysis conducted where initial cost for the four technical solutions were estimated and compared. The results show that low temperature district heating could lead to reduction in the initial cost for the network by using PEX instead of steel as pipe material. The results show also that one solution using heat exchanger as exchange stations has the lowest cost between the four solutions. The results show that the cost for the retention flow that is linked with 4GDH stands for 20%-30% of the total cost. The importance of the retention flow pipe is investigated using two physical models in OpenModelica and Excel, where simulations were conducted. It is concluded that it is possible to provide Kungsängen area with low temperature district heating without having the retention flow pipe. Three parameters were identified to be critical which are, geographical placement of the consumers, pattern variation for the heat demand and heat systems installed inside consumer’s buildings. The results show also that it might be critical to have a variate and optimized supply temperature for the area, depending on the demand. The simulations of a fictive area that could present a future heat demand for Kungsängen area shows that a temperature of 55°C is satisfying during winter season where the demand is high and a temperature between 60-65°C must be available during spring/autumn seasons and specially during summer. The variation depends directly on the temperature drop through the supply pipes to the consumers. The temperature drop is directly linked with water velocity inside the pipes. The losses increase during summer nights when the heat demand is low which lead to low water velocities.

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Lindgren, Nicolas, and Karl Brogren. "Production optimization for district heating : Short-term planning of district heating grid in Gävle, Sweden." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för ekonomi, samhälle och teknik, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-44268.

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Energy systems with a high portion of renewable energy from wind and solar power can suffer from fluctuations in production due to weak winds or cloudy weather, which may affect the electricity price. When producing heat and power in a combined heat and power plant, an additional heat storage tank can be used to store the heat surplus which is obtained when the power production is high, and the heat demand is low. To optimize heat and power production economically, short-term planning can be applied. Short-term planning covers the production in the near future of 1-3 days. The optimization in this degree project is based on the district heating production, which means that the heating demand always needs to be fulfilled. The district heating production is based on the weather. Therefore a suitable period for simulation is three days due to the accuracy of the weather forecasts are reasonable. The optimization is performed on the district heat system in Gävle, Sweden. The system comprises several different production units, such as combined heat and power plants, backup plants, and industrial waste heat recovery. Two different models are made, one using linear programming and one using mixed integer non-linear programming. The model stated as a linear programming problem is not as accurate as of the one stated as a mixed integer non-linear programming problem which uses binary variables. Historical input data from Bomhus Energi AB, a company owned together by the local heat and power supplier Gävle Energi AB and the pulp and paper manufacturer BillerudKorsnäs AB, was given to simulate different scenarios. The different scenarios have various average temperatures and in some scenarios are there some issues with the pulp and paper industry affecting the waste heat recovery. In all scenarios is the heat storage tank charged when the demand is low and then discharged when the demand increases to avoid starting some of the more expensive backup plants if possible. The simulation time varies a lot between the two approaches, from a couple of seconds to several hours. Particularly when observing scenarios with a rather high demand since the backup generators use binary variables which take a lot of time to solve.

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Gebremedhin, Alemayehu. "Regional and industrial co-operation in district heating systems /." Linköping : Univ, 2003. http://www.bibl.liu.se/liupubl/disp/disp2003/tek849.pdf.

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Erdoğmuş, Abdullah Berkan Özerdem M. Barış. "Economic assessment of Balçova-Narlıdere geothermal district heating systems/." [s.l.]: [s.n.], 2003. http://library.iyte.edu.tr/tezler/master/makinamuh/T000259.rar.

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Rodriguez, German Darío Rivas. "Decentralized Architecture for Load Balancing in District Heating Systems." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Sektionen för datavetenskap och kommunikation, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-3329.

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Context. In forthcoming years, sustainability will lead the development of society. Implementation of innovative systems to make the world more sustainable is becoming one of the key points for science. Load balancing strategies aim to reduce economic and ecological cost of the heat production in district heating systems. Development of a decentralized solution lies in the objective of making the load balancing more accessible and attractive for the companies in charge of providing district-heating services. Objectives. This master thesis aims to find a new alternative for implementing decentralized load balancing in district heating systems. Methods. The development of this master thesis involved the review of the state-of-the-art on demand side management in district heating systems and power networks. It also implied the design of the architecture, creation of a software prototype and execution of a simulation of the system to measure the performance in terms of response time. Results. Decentralized demand side management algorithm and communication framework, software architecture description and analysis of the prototype simulation performance. Conclusions. The main conclusion is that it is possible to create a decentralized algorithm that performs load balancing without compromising the individuals’ privacy. It is possible to say that the algorithm shows good levels of performance not only from the system aggregated response time, but also from the individual performance, in terms of memory consumption and CPU consumption. (+46) 709706206

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Filatov, Artem. "Concentrating Collector for Torsång District Heating System." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Energiteknik, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-28539.

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In this thesis report for Dalarna University in Borlange and Absolicon company the study of a possibility to add an array of concentrating solar collectors to a Torsång district heating system was done. The whole idea of this work was to make a simulation of this kind of system, trying to get 15-20% of solar fraction, and make an economical evaluation. At the same time, another goal was to make two comparisons: between concentrating and flat-plate collector in the same system, and between two tools for collector analysis – Polysun and Absolicon tool, based on TRNSYS, which was designed to estimate the output of the collector for a certain temperature, without any load. During the study, the analysis of the simulating tools was made and the combination of those two tools was used. Using long iteration cycles, involving changing the field layout, number of collectors and distance between collector rows in flat-plate collector case, both types of collectors were analyzed. The method of the analysis was to get an equal output of the field and see the differences, which appear while using different collector types.

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Aoun, Nadine. "Modeling and flexible predictive control of buildings space-heating demand in district heating systems." Thesis, Université Paris-Saclay (ComUE), 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019SACLC104.

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La gestion de la demande en chauffage des bâtiments raccordés à des réseaux de chaleur s'effectue classiquement au moyen d’une courbe de chauffe : lorsque la température extérieure chute, la température de départ de l’eau alimentant le circuit de chauffage interne est relevée. Ce mode de contrôle, appelé régulation par loi d’eau, présente des atouts en termes de simplicité et de robustesse, mais ne tient pas compte de l'inertie thermique du bâtiment et ne permet donc pas une modulation de sa demande. La modulation de la demande en chauffage se définit comme l'action de contrôle consistant à modifier de manière stratégique les conditions de confort thermique dans le cadre d’une optimisation énergétique et/ou économique. Il s’agit d’une brique essentielle du contrôle flexible qui envisage le déplacement des charges et l’effacement des pics pour une meilleure efficacité de production favorisant la pénétration des énergies renouvelables et de récupération.Ces travaux de thèse visent à développer une stratégie de contrôle prédictif et flexible de la demande en chauffage, applicable à grande échelle dans les réseaux de chaleur.Tout d'abord, un simulateur thermique dynamique de bâtiment résidentiel, équipé de radiateurs hydrauliques connectés à une sous-station de réseau de chaleur, est développé. Il permet de définir plusieurs cas d’études de bâtiments représentatifs du parc résidentiel français et constitue l’environnement expérimental virtuel de nos travaux de recherche. Ensuite, une méthodologie permettant d’obtenir un modèle orienté-contrôle et d’ordre réduit de bâtiment avec son système de chauffage est proposée. Elle commence par la définition de la structure du modèle en se basant sur des connaissances physiques, puis consiste en l'identification des paramètres par optimisation méta-heuristique à l'aide des données générées par le simulateur. L'approche d'identification paramétrique évalue la possibilité de réaliser cette tâche en ne s’appuyant que sur des données disponibles au niveau de la sous-station, notamment en s’interdisant d’utiliser des mesures de température intérieure au bâtiment, donnée à caractère personnel présumée indisponible à grande échelle pour des raisons techniques, économiques et juridiques. Enfin, la stratégie de contrôle prédictif est implémentée. Elle permet la planification de la température de départ de l'eau de chauffage en fonction des prévisions météorologiques et des prix de l’énergie. Le contrôleur flexible s’appuie sur un problème d’optimisation linéaire sous contraintes, selon le principe de l’horizon fuyant. Il incorpore les équations linéarisées du modèle d’ordre réduit et calcule le compromis optimal entre coûts énergétiques et inconfort thermique, le degré de flexibilité de la demande en chauffage étant défini par l’intermédiaire de paramètres de réglage dédiés In District Heating Systems (DHSs), buildings Space-Heating (SH) demand management conventionally relies on a heating curve: when the outdoor temperature drops, the internal SH system supply water temperature is raised. This control mode, referred to as Weather-Compensation Control (WCC), offers widely recognized assets in terms of simplicity and robustness. However, WCC does not account for the building thermal inertia, and consequently, it does not allow modulation of its demand. SH demand modulation is the control action of strategically altering the indoor thermal comfort conditions within an energetic and/or economic optimization framework. It is a key measure in flexible demand control strategies, which seek loads shifting and peaks shaving to allow sustainable commitment of energy resources in favour of renewable power penetration and waste heat recovery.The work presented in this thesis aims at developing a flexible Model Predictive Control (MPC) strategy for SH demand, applicable at large scale in DHSs.Firstly, a thermal dynamic simulator of a residential building with a radiator SH circuit connected to a DHS substation is developed. It allows the definition of multiple case study buildings, well-representative of the french residential stock, and constitutes the virtual experimental environment for our research. Then, a methodology to obtain a control-oriented Reduced-Order Model (ROM) for the building and its SH system is proposed. It starts by defining the ROM structure based on physical knowledge, and proceeds to parameters identification by meta-heuristic optimization using data generated by the simulator. The parametric identification approach evaluates the possibility of carrying out this task by relying solely on data available at the substation level, refraining from using indoor temperature measurements, personal data assumed to be unavailable at large scale for technical, economic and legal reasons. Finally, MPC is implemented to schedule the SH supply water temperature as function of weather forecasts and energy price variations. The flexible controller is designed to solve a constrained linear optimization problem according to the receding horizon principle. It embeds the linearized ROM equations within the problem formulation and makes an optimal trade-off between energy consumption costs and thermal discomfort, the degree of flexibility to modulate SH demand being defined through dedicated tuning parameters

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Martin-Du, Pan Oliver. "Operational performance assessment of decentralised energy and district heating systems." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2015. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/17456.

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District heating systems can contribute to reducing the UK's CO2 emissions. This thesis investigates the operational performance of current district heating (DH) systems with the existing and a possible future energy sector. The main contributions to knowledge are:  Operational, financial and exergy performance assessments of three functioning DH systems and one decentralised energy (DE) technology  A methodology to optimise a DH system in a resource efficient and cost effective way The aims of DH systems are to provide heat, reduce CO2 emissions, ensure energy security by operating in a resource efficient way and to tackle fuel poverty. However, the case studies in this project confirm that DH systems operate poorly in the UK. This is largely because of the heat losses from the DH network to the soil being high and the plant operation being suboptimal. Four case studies were analysed. The 785 room Strand Palace hotel has two 250 kWe combined heat and power (CHP) engines set to modulate following the hotel's electricity consumption and providing approximately 90% of this annual demand. It was found that the CHP engines never operate at full load throughout a full day, firstly because the plant cannot export electricity to the grid and secondly the system is not fitted with a thermal store. Financial analysis revealed that the hotel does not reduce its heating cost by operating the CHP engines, but that the energy service company (ESCo) makes £77,000 net operating income per year. Elmswell in Suffolk (UK) is a low heat density DH system that generates heat with a 2008 biomass boiler and pumps it to 26 terraced and semi-detached dwellings. It was found that 39% of its heat is lost to the soil and that the natural gas boiler generates 45% of the heating load and operates with a seasonal efficiency of 65%. The heat losses to the soil for this system were compared to a DH system of higher heat density, Loughborough University, with a lower heat loss of 22% to the soil. In August 2011, Loughborough University installed a 1.6 MWe CHP engine to operate with four 3 MWth natural gas boilers to supply heat to its DH network. A study undertaken demonstrated that by adding a 2 MWe CHP engine with a thermal storage instead of a 1.6 MWe CHP engine on its own could further increase the CO2 emissions savings from 8% to 12.4%. The energy centre at Pimlico District Heating Undertaking (PDHU) includes a gas fired cogeneration plant that supplies heat to 3 schools, 3,256 dwellings and 55 commercial units. It also benefits from a 2,500 m3 thermal store. Every component of PDHU was investigated in detail and its current operation was optimised and compared to a selection of new operating scenarios. It was found that: i) The thermal store operated with 93% thermal efficiency and was not used to reduce the energy consumption or to enable more cogeneration, ii) The CHP engines were undersized and generated only 18% of the required heat in 2012, iii) The boilers modulate and £ 70,000 could be saved per year by setting them to operate at full load by making use of the thermal store, iv) By installing an open-loop heat pump using the river Thames, PDHU could then guarantee to comply with current and likely future policies impacts by setting the energy plant to operate in CHP mode or as an electricity consumer at defined times to benefit from low energy utility costs and to minimise CO2 emissions. A comparison of selected performance metrics was then undertaken and it was found that none of the three DH systems operate in a resource efficient way and that the heating cost could be reduced further by optimising the operation of the systems. To do this, a new optimisation methodology is proposed by maximising their exergy efficiency in addition to maximising their overall energy efficiency and CO2 emissions reduction.

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Ghafghazi, Saeed. "Multi criteria evaluation of wood pellet utilization in district heating systems." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/31556.

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The hypothesis that this thesis investigates is that “the wood pellet is a competitive primary energy source option for generating district heat in Vancouver, BC”. The competitiveness of the wood pellet as an energy source is evaluated by investigating a major district heating project in Vancouver, BC in which the wood pellet option was compared with natural gas, sewer heat, and geothermal heat. It is observed that in addition to technical and economic factors, environmental and social acceptability criteria play an important role in the selection of the energy source for district heating systems. These include stakeholders’ concerns regarding global warming impacts associated with production and transportation of the wood pellets, as well as particulate matter emissions from wood pellet combustion at the facility. In order to investigate the hypothesis, detailed study of: (a) particle emissions formation and levels, (b) techno-economic performance, and (c) upstream and life-cycle environmental impacts when using wood pellets at the district heating centre, has been carried out. This thesis accepts the hypothesis in that: 1. Particulate emission levels from wood pellet combustion when an electrostatic precipitator flue gas cleaning system is used is below the 18 mg/m³ (20ºC, 101.3 kPa, 8% O₂) regulatory limits in Vancouver, BC, 2. The cost of heat generation (CAD/MWhth) from the wood pellet option (19.08~23.66) is comparable to that of the natural gas option (17.38) and well below those of the heat pump options (26.34~30.71), 3. Based on the upstream environmental impacts of the energy options, a single energy option, which outperforms others when all the impact categories at the same time are considered, cannot be identified. However, it was shown that the impact of upstream production and transportation activities for the wood pellet option does not offset the global warming mitigation advantage of this option. The greenhouse gas equivalent of upstream emissions from the wood pellet option is in the same order of magnitude as the renewable heat pump options, and has remarkably lower (less than 200 kgeq of GHG emissions per MWh of produced district heat) than that of the natural gas option.

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Chou, Lu-chien. "Drag reducing cationic surfactant solutions for district heating and cooling systems /." The Ohio State University, 1991. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487758178238587.

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Gunnarsson, David. "Business strategies for the district heating sector in southern Sweden." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för maskinteknik (MT), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-105731.

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The heat demand in Sweden has stagnated and district heating companies must take action to sustain in the market. Based on this background this study combines a PEST and SWOT analysis to produce a basis to suggest general strategies suitable for district heating companies in southern Sweden. The analysis found that both investments into activities outside of the heating market, as well as further development of current systems, are viable options. Increasing the awareness and knowledge about district heating companies was also identified as a factor that could entail several benefits.

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Vivas, David. "Heat Pump System using Waste Energy for a District Heating Application." Thesis, University of Gävle, Department of Technology and Built Environment, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-630.

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Nowadays, reducing energy usage as well as reducing environmental impacts due to energy efficiency measurements is very common in the industrial sector. The objective of these measurements is to achieve better sustainable energy systems.Sandvik Materials Technology (SMT) AB, one of the business areas of the enterprise Sandvik AB, is not an exception in that field.The aim of this thesis project is to analyze how to use waste energy from the cooling of a steel plant for an internal district heating (DH) system within the industrial area of SMT AB located in Sandviken, Sweden. In order to reduce the energy use, the economic cost and the environmental impacts within the industrial area.In order to achieve the aim has been studied the heat pump devices as the system to transfer the waste heat from the cooling of the steel plant to the DH system. Therefore, after the introduction to the project (part 1: Introduction) and the explanation of the aim(part 2: Aim, methodology and delimitations), the basics of the heat pumps are studied and explained (part 3: Heat pumps theoretical study). After that, the knowledge acquired in part 3 is applied to define and calculate the heat pump system which fulfill the requiredobjectives achieving the greatest energy, economical and environmental impacts reductions (part 4: Heat pump practical study).The achieved results show that there is a great opportunity to reduce the energy use within the industrial area (until 45300 MWh per year), the economical cost (until 2 millions euros per year) and the 2 CO emissions (until 2.3 millions of 2 CO kg per year1).Therefore, the conclusion is that it must be taken into account to build the heat pump system and also that the effort of finding possible energy efficiency measurements within the industrial sector must be one priority for all the industrial companies, not only because the possible potential economical reductions, but also because of the potential environmental impacts reductions.

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Amiri, Shahnaz. "Economic and Environmental Benefits of CHP-based District Heating Systems in Sweden." Doctoral thesis, Linköpings universitet, Energisystem, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-92807.

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Future energy systems and thus the climate are affected by many factors, such as energy resources, energy demand, energy policy and the choice of energy technologies. Energy systems of the future are facing three main challenges; the steady growth of global energy demand, the energy resource depletion, as well as the increasing emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases and their impact on climate change. To meet the mentioned challenges with sustainability in mind, actions that increase energy efficiency and choosing an energy-efficient energy system which is cost efficient will be essential. Combined heat and power (CHP) plants and district heating and cooling could contribute greatly to increased system efficiency by using energy otherwise wasted. The aim of this study is to increase the understanding of how CHP-based district heating and cooling systems using different primary energy sources can contribute to more cost-efficient energy systems, which reduce global CO2 emissions, and to highlight the impact of some important parameters and measures on Swedish municipal district heating systems. An important assumption in this study is the estimation of CO2 emissions from electricity production, which is based on marginal electricity perspectives. In the short term, the marginal electricity is assumed to come from coal-fired condensing power plants while in the long term it consists of electricity produced by natural gas-fired combined cycle condensing power plants. This means that the local electricity production will replace the marginal electricity production. The underlying assumption is an ideal fully deregulated European electricity market where trade barriers are removed and there are no restrictions on transfer capacity. The results show that electricity generation in CHP plants, particularly in higher efficiency combined steam and gas turbine heat and power plants using natural gas, can reduce the global environmental impact of energy usage to a great extent. The results confirm, through the scenarios presented in this study, that waste as a fuel in CHP-based district heating systems is fully utilised since it has the lowest operational costs. The results also show how implementation of a biogas-based CHP plant in a biogas system contributes to an efficient system, as well as lowering both CO2 emissions and system costs. The results show that replacing electricity-driven (e.g. compression) cooling by heat-driven cooling using district heating (e.g. absorption chillers) in a CHP system is a cost-effective and climate friendly technology as electricity consumption is reduced while at the same time the electricity generation will be increased. The results of the study also show that there is potential to expand district heating systems to areas with lower heat density, with both environmental and economic benefits for the district heating companies. The results reveal that the operation of a studied CHP-based district heating system with an imposed emission limit is very sensitive to the way CO2 emissions are accounted, i.e., local CO2 emissions or emissions from marginal electricity production. The results show how the electricity production increases in the marginal case compared with the local one in order to reduce global CO2 emissions. The results also revealed that not only electricity and fuel prices but also policy instruments are important factors in promoting CHP-based district heating and cooling systems. The use of electricity certificates has a large influence for the introduction of biogas-based cogeneration. Another conclusion from the modelling is that present Swedish policy instruments are strong incentives for cogeneration with similar impact as applying external costs. Framtidens energisystem och därmed även klimatet påverkas av många faktorer, såsom energitillgångar, efterfrågan på energi, energipolicy och valet av energitekniska lösningar. De framtida energisystemen står inför tre viktiga utmaningar: den ständigt växande efterfrågan på energi i världen, problemet med minskande energitillgångar samt den ökande koldioxidhalten i atmosfären och utsläppen av andra växthusgaser och deras påverkan på klimatförändring. Det blir alltmer angeläget att möta de nämnda utmaningarna med hållbarhetsbegreppet i åtanke, att agera för att öka energieffektiviteten och att välja ett energieffektivt energisystem som också är kostnadseffektivt. Fjärrvärme och fjärrkyla baserade på kraftvärme (CHP) kan i hög grad bidra till ökad effektivitet genom användning av energi som annars skulle gå till spillo. Syftet med denna studie är att öka förståelsen för hur CHP-baserad fjärrvärme och fjärrkyla som använder olika energikällor kan bidra till mer kostnadseffektiva energisystem som även ger minskade globala koldioxidutsläpp samt att belysa effekterna av vissa viktiga parametrar för svenska fjärrvärmesystem. Ett viktigt antagande i denna studie är beräkningarna av koldioxidutsläppen från elproduktion som är baserade på marginalelsperspektiv. På kort sikt antas marginalelen komma från koleldade kondenskraftverk, medan den på lång sikt utgörs av el som produceras av naturgas i gaskombi-kondenskraftverk. I beräkningarna antas den lokala elproduktionen ersätta marginalelsproduktionen. Det underliggande antagandet är en ideal, helt avreglerad, europeisk elmarknad där handelshindren är borta och det inte finns några begränsningar i överföringskapaciteten. Resultaten visar att elproduktion i kraftvärmeverk, speciellt i högeffektiva kraftvärmeverk med en kombination av ång- och gasturbiner med naturgas, kan minska den globala miljöpåverkan av energianvändningen avsevärt. Resultaten bekräftar också, genom de scenarier som presenteras i denna studie, att avfall utnyttjas fullt ut som bränsle i kraftvärmebaserade fjärrvärmesystem eftersom det har de lägsta driftskostnaderna. Resultaten visar också hur införande av ett biogasbaserat kraftvärmeverk i ett biogassystem bidrar till ett effektivt system för att minska koldioxidutsläppen och systemkostnaderna. Resultaten visar att det är kostnadseffektivt och klimatvänligt att byta ut eldrivna kompressorkylmaskiner mot värmedrivna absorptionskylmaskiner i ett CHP-system eftersom elanvändningen minskas och elproduktionen samtidigt kommer att öka. Resultaten av studien visar också att det finns potential att bygga ut fjärrvärmesystem till områden med lägre värmetäthet med både miljövinster och ekonomiska fördelar för fjärrvärmeföretagen. Resultaten visar att driften av ett studerat CHP-baserat fjärrvärmesystem där olika gränsvärden för utsläpp införs är mycket känsligt för hur koldioxidutsläppen redovisas, d v s som lokala koldioxidutsläpp eller utsläpp från marginalel. Resultatet visar hur elproduktionen ökar i marginalelsfallet jämfört med det lokala fallet för att minska de globala koldioxidutsläppen. Resultaten visade också att inte bara el- och bränslepriserna, utan också styrmedlen är viktiga för att främja kraftvärmebaserad fjärrvärme och fjärrkyla. Elcertifikat har t ex stor inverkan på införandet av biogasbaserad kraftvärme. En annan slutsats från modelleringarna är att de styrmedel som finns i dagens Sverige utgör starka incitament för kraftvärme och har en liknande effekt som att använda externa kostnader.

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Tunzi, Michele. "Optimising the operation of hydronic heating systems in existing buildings for connection to low temperature district heating networks." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2016. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/38724/.

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This thesis presents a new method developed to adapt existing hydronic systems in buildings to take advantage of low temperature district heating (LTDH). The work carried out was performed by extensive use of buildings’ energy modelling, validated through recorded data. Two different case studies were investigated and the dynamic heat demand profiles, simulated for each building, were used to evaluate plate radiators connected to single and double string heating loops. The method considered an optimisation procedure, based on supply and return temperatures, to obtain the required logarithmic mean temperature difference (LMTD). The results of the analysis are presented as the average reduction of LMTD over the heating season compared to the base case design conditions. The developed strategy was applied to a Danish single family house from the 1930s. Firstly it was hypothesised a heating system based on double string loop. Two scenarios were investigated based on the assumption of a likely cost reduction in the end users energy bills of 1% per each 1◦C reduction of return and average supply and return temperatures. The results showed possible discounts of 14% and 16% respectively, due to more efficient operation of the radiators. For the case of single loop system, the investigated scenario assumed a cost reduction in the end users energy bill of 1% per each 1◦C lower reduction of average supply and return temperature. Although low return temperatures could not be achieved, the implementation of the method illustrates how to efficiently operate these systems and for the given scenario a possible discount of 5% was quantified. The method was also applied to a UK small scale district heating (DH) network. The analysis began by assessing the buildings of the Estate having double string plate radiator systems. Assuming a likely cost reduction in the end users energy bills of 1% per each 1◦C reduction of return temperature, the optimisation led to obtain a possible discount in the end users energy bills of 14% with a possible yearly average return temperature of 41◦C, compared to the present 55◦C. Moreover, few improvements in the operation of the heat network were proposed. It was assumed to operate the buildings with underfloor heating systems (UFH) with average supply and return temperatures of 40/30◦C, whereas the ones with plate radiators with the optimised temperatures of 81/41◦C. The results shown that an overall average return temperature of 35.6◦C can be achieved operating the heat network as suggested. This corresponds to a decrease in the average return temperature of 18.6◦C compared to the present condition and to a reduction of 10% in the distribution heat losses. Finally, the lower average return temperature achievable would guarantee a better condensation of the flue gases, improving the overall efficiency of the biomass boiler. This was quantified as a possible reduction of fuel consumption of 9% compared to present conditions.

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Lundgren, Joakim. "Performance of a new wood-chips fired boiler for small district heating systems." Licentiate thesis, Luleå, 2002. http://epubl.luth.se/1402-1757/2002/31.

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Ebhuomhan, Sarah. "Effectiveness of using Organic Rankine cycle engine in small-scale district heating systems." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för byggd miljö och energiteknik (BET), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-105294.

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Co-production of electricity and heat using biomass is important in providing sustainable energy for the future. District heating systems, which are well established in Sweden, provide a great opportunity to co-produce electricity simultaneously. With small-scale district heating comprising majority of the district heating systems in Sweden, there is great potential for electricity production. The overall efficiency of the primary energy use of the cogeneration system of electricity and heat from district heating systems shows its sustainability advantage and energy benefits. The cost effectiveness of such systems gives an idea as to how profitable, market-competitive, and feasible the implementation of such systems might be. This thesis analyses the effectiveness of co-producing electricity in small-scale district heating systems, using Organic Rankine cycle (ORC) engines from an overall energy system viewpoint. A small-scale district heating system in Ingelstad Sweden with an annual heat capacity of 6.0 GWh, was used as a case study. The additional fuel use and the amount of electricity that could be produced if an ORC turbine was integrated into the system as well as its production cost were estimated. Results show that a net electricity production of 219 MWh could be yielded annually at a production cost of 102.0 €/MWh, but an additional primary energy of 239.9 MWh could be consumed. Consequently, the system yielded about double the quantity of electricity when compared to the case of producing in standalone power plants. Considering the situation where the co-produced electricity is used to replace that from different fossil-based standalone power plants, a carbon abatement cost of 90.4 - 158.4 €/ton CO2 is accounted. Sensitivity analysis done on this integrated system showed that increased heat demand would serve to improve the energy efficiency of the system, if applied, while lower discount rates and elongation of the equipment lifetime would serve to improve the cost-effectiveness of the system. The positive results from the study reveal that, the integration of ORC engines into small-scale district heating systems is promising from an overall energy system viewpoint.

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Provatas, Spyridon. "An Online Machine Learning Algorithm for Heat Load Forecasting in District Heating Systems." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Institutionen för datalogi och datorsystemteknik, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-3475.

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Context. Heat load forecasting is an important part of district heating optimization. In particular, energy companies aim at minimizing peak boiler usage, optimizing combined heat and power generation and planning base production. To achieve resource efficiency, the energy companies need to estimate how much energy is required to satisfy the market demand. Objectives. We suggest an online machine learning algorithm for heat load forecasting. Online algorithms are increasingly used due to their computational efficiency and their ability to handle changes of the predictive target variable over time. We extend the implementation of online bagging to make it compatible to regression problems and we use the Fast Incremental Model Trees with Drift Detection (FIMT-DD) as the base model. Finally, we implement and incorporate to the algorithm a mechanism that handles missing values, measurement errors and outliers. Methods. To conduct our experiments, we use two machine learning software applications, namely Waikato Environment for Knowledge Analysis (WEKA) and Massive Online Analysis (MOA). The predictive ability of the suggested algorithm is evaluated on operational data from a part of the Karlshamn District Heating network. We investigate two approaches for aggregating the data from the nodes of the network. The algorithm is evaluated on 100 runs using the repeated measures experimental design. A paired T-test is run to test the hypothesis that the the choice of approach does not have a significant effect on the predictive error of the algorithm. Results. The presented algorithm forecasts the heat load with a mean absolute percentage error of 4.77\%. This means that there is a sufficiently accurate estimation of the actual values of the heat load, which can enable heat suppliers to plan and manage more effectively the heat production. Conclusions. Experimental results show that the presented algorithm can be a viable alternative to state-of-the-art algorithms that are used for heat load forecasting. In addition to its predictive ability, it is memory-efficient and can process data in real time. Robust heat load forecasting is an important part of increased system efficiency within district heating, and the presented algorithm provides a concrete foundation for operational usage of online machine learning algorithms within the domain.

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Nilsson, Daniel. "Analysis and simulation of systems for delivery of fuel straw to district heating plants /." Uppsala : Swedish Univ. of Agricultural Sciences (Sveriges lantbruksuniv.), 1999. http://epsilon.slu.se/avh/1999/91-576-5721-1.pdf.

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Coss, Stefano. "Advanced methods for sustainable energy systems in operation and design of district heating networks." Thesis, Ecole nationale supérieure Mines-Télécom Atlantique Bretagne Pays de la Loire, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018IMTA0090/document.

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Les réseaux de chauffage urbain (DHN) sont un moyen efficace de fournir de l'énergie thermique aux consommateurs. L'état actuel de la technique montre que les DHN évoluent vers des réseaux thermiques intelligents dans des systèmes énergétiques intégrés alors que leur conception est basée sur les principes de durabilité. Sur cette base, cette thèse couvre deux domaines de recherche principaux : Fonctionnement et conception des systèmes de chauffage urbain. Dans la partie A de cette thèse, des méthodes avancées pour le fonctionnement de la DHN sont développées à l'aide d'analyses exergétiques et thermoéconomiques. Cela inclut la formulation de bilans de coûts exergétiques pour les modèles de réseau basés sur des graphiques. La partie intrinsèque est le déploiement d'une matrice algébrique, qui détermine les coûts exergétiques pour la modélisation dynamique du système. Une étude de cas d'un réseau réel prouve que la méthodologie proposée offre de nouvelles perspectives sur l'allocation individuelle des coûts, ce qui aide à évaluer la faisabilité de l'intégration par des tiers et l'intégration des sources d'énergie distribuées. Dans la partie B de cette thèse, un nouvel indicateur appelé «load deviation index (LDI)» est proposé pour lier les mesures de la demande (DSM) à la conception durable des systèmes DHN. Pour cela, un cadre de conception axé sur les affaires est proposé, qui prend en compte les influences critiques dans le DHN tout en évitant un trop grand détail. Le comportement du DSM est analysé du point de vue du système et son impact sur la conception du DHN est étudié dans deux études de cas. Alors que l'un se concentre sur les benchmarks pour différentes options de conception en utilisant une métrique de durabilité multicritères, un autre donne des indications détaillées sur l'utilité du cadre proposé pour la conception en évaluant l'impact de DSM sur les améliorations de conception possibles District heating networks (DHN) arean efficient way of providing thermal energy to consumers. Current state of the art shows that DHNs are developing towards smart thermal networks in integrated energy systems while their design is based upon the principles of sustainability. Based on that, this thesis covers two main research areas: Operation and design of district heating systems. In part A of this thesis, advanced methods for DHN operation are developed with the help of exergetic and thermoeconomic analysis. This includes the formulation of exergetic cost balances for graph-based network models. Intrinsic part is the deployment of an algebraic matrix, which determines the exergetic costs for dynamic system modeling. A case study of areal-existing network provides evidence that the proposed methodology offers new insights into individual allocation of costs which helps to assess the feasibility of third-party integration and the integration of distributed energy sources. In part B of this thesis, a new indicator called “load deviation index (LDI)” is proposed to link demand side measures (DSM) with the sustainable design of DHN systems. For that, abusiness-focused design frameworks proposed which takes the critical influences of DHN into account while avoiding a too high detail. DSM behavior is analyzed from a system perspective and its impact on DHN design is studied in two case studies. While one focuses on benchmarks for different design options using a multi-criteria sustainability metric, another gives detailed insights into the usefulness of the proposed framework for design purposes through assessing the impact of DSM on possible design improvements using a multi-objective optimization approach

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Lidberg, Tina. "Influences from Building Energy Efficiency Refurbishment on a Regional District Heating System." Licentiate thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Energisystem, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-26499.

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Improving energy performance of existing buildings is an important part in decreasing energy use and in turn reduce the greenhouse gas emissions caused by human activity and the primary energy use. To be able to evaluate how energy refurbishment influences the greenhouse gas emissions and the primary energy use a wider system perspective is needed that puts the building in its context. This thesis deals with energy refurbishment packages performed on multi-family buildings within district heated areas and how they influence greenhouse gas emissions and primary energy use when the district heating use is altered. A simulated building is used to evaluate several energy refurbishment packages. The results are used as input data for models of district heating systems to cost optimize the district heating production. The results from the cost optimization are used to evaluate the impact on greenhouse gas emissions and primary energy use. The results show a difference between measures that saves district heating without increasing the use of electricity and measures that increases the use of electricity while district heating is saved. For example, a building refurbishment package including only building envelope improvements saves the same amount of district heating as a package including only mechanical ventilation with heat recovery. Despite this, the emissions of greenhouse gases and the use of primary energy is to a greater extent reduced in the first package because the use of electricity remains unchanged. Comparing energy refurbishment packages performed on the same building, but within different district heating systems, show the importance of the design of the district heating system. Depending on the fuel types used and to which extent electricity is co-produced in the district heating system, the results of implementing the energy refurbishment packages vary. The largest reduction of greenhouse gases and primary energy use occurs when a refurbishment package is performed on a building in a district heating system with high share of biofuel and no electricity production. Att förbättra energiprestanda hos befintliga byggnader är en viktig del i arbetet med att minska energianvändningen och i sin tur minska utsläpp av växthusgaser orsakade av mänsklig aktivitet samt att minska användningen av primärenergi. För att kunna utvärdera hur energieffektivisering av byggnader påverkar växthusgasutsläpp och primärenergianvändning behövs ett brett systemperspektiv som sätter byggnaden i sitt sammanhang. Denna avhandling handlar om hur paket av energieffektiviseringsåtgärder som utförs på flerfamiljshus inom fjärrvärmeuppvärmda områden påverkar växthusgasutsläpp och primärenergianvändning när fjärrvärmeanvändningen förändras. Resultaten visar på skillnader mellan åtgärder som sparar fjärrvärme utan att öka användningen av el och åtgärder som ökar användningen av el medan fjärrvärme sparas. Till exempel sparar ett energieffektiviseringspaket som endast omfattar byggnadsskalsförbättringar samma mängd fjärrvärme som ett paket som endast omfattar installation av mekanisk ventilation med värmeåtervinning. Trots detta minskar utsläppen av växthusgaser och användningen av primärenergi i större utsträckning i det första paketet på grund av att elanvändningen förblir oförändrad. Vikten av fjärrvärmesystemets utformning visas då en byggnad där olika energieffektiviseringspaket testats, flyttas runt till olika fjärrvärmesystem. Beroende på vilka bränsletyper som används och i vilken utsträckning som el produceras i fjärrvärmesystemet så varierar resultaten. Den största minskningen av växthusgaser uppstår när ett renoveringspaket utförs på en byggnad i ett fjärrvärmesystem med hög andel biobränsle och ingen elproduktion.

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Andersson, Therese. "The potential of utilizing geographic information systems for the district heating networks within Fortum Heat." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Fasta tillståndets fysik, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-211740.

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This study is a thesis work at Uppsala University initiated by the Cross Country Team for Operate Networks at Fortum Heat. The team requested an analysis of the current situation of the functions, processes and systems regarding geographic information systems, GIS, for the district heating networks within Fortum Heat. GIS software is used to store, analyse and visualize information in digital maps. This study aims to investigate in which processes the use of GIS can contribute to facilitate and make operations more effective. The potential of utilizing GIS for the district heating networks was found to be: geographic and technical documentation, visualization, maintenance management, locate potential customers, sales, customer communication, risk analysis and other types of analysis. The situation regarding documentation, maintenance management and customer management differs a lot between the district heating networks within Fortum Heat. The general conclusions and recommendations for improvement are to implement GIS for those networks that do not utilize GIS for documentation today. These networks are situated in Plock, Czestochowa and Jelgava. A further recommendation is that there should be one target system for GIS within Fortum Heat. The advantages of using the same system in the whole heat division are that there would be more users with knowledge about the systems, which could benefit from collaboration with each other. The maintenance management system for a district heating network should include an asset register where the network is well defined and where all parts of the network are represented as individuals. Since a district heating network in opposite to a heat plant is spread over a large geographical area is a map of the district heating network necessary for planning and execution of work. To meet these requirements either a module for maintenance planning in a GIS or integration between the current GIS system of a district heating network and the maintenance management system Maximo could be used. A large potential of utilizing GIS is to locate potential new customers, sales and customer communication. More active use of GIS in when locating new potential customers and analysis of where non-connected buildings near existing district heating networks are situated would result in more targeted marketing.

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Eriksson, Robin. "Heat storages in Swedish district heating systems : An analysis of the installed thermal energy storage capacity." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Energivetenskap, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-31143.

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District heating is the most common source of heating in Sweden and has played a crucial part in the country’s substantial reductions of carbon dioxide emissions. This recycling technology is ideal in order to use thermal energy as efficiently as possible and makes the goals set for a sustainable future more achievable. The future potential of this technology is therefore huge. Today, a lot of the district heating systems have installed heat storages in order to improve the systems reliability and performance. These heat storages have the potential to be utilized even further in the future by acting as a balancing power for the power grid. However, there is currently no data available regarding the storage capacity available in the district heating systems. This thesis therefore seeks to quantify the installed storage capacity in Swedish district heating systems. The data gathered regarding this can then be utilized in research regarding potential future applications of heat storages, such as balancing the power grid. All collected data regarding heat storage capacity has also been analyzed in an effort to find any correlations between the relative storage capacity and the size, energy sources, customer prices and operational costs of each investigated system. This analysis has concluded that most of the district heating systems in Sweden have installed storage capacity and that it is more commonly used in larger systems. It is also concluded that most of the installed storage capacity is used to counteract daily heat load variations. The heat storages influence district heating systems by reducing their operational costs as well. Den vanligaste formen av uppvärmning i Sverige är fjärrvärme. Sverige har minskat landets utsläpp av koldioxid kraftigt det senaste årtiondet och fjärrvärmen har bidragit stort till denna bedrift. Denna teknologi är ideal när det gäller att återvinna samt använda värme så effektivt som möjligt. Potentialen för den teknik i framtiden är därför stor. Många fjärrvärmesystem har idag värmelager i systemet för att öka dess effektivitet och pålitlighet. Dessa värmelager kan potentiellt utnyttjas ännu mer i framtiden genom att aggera som balanskraft för elnätet. Det finns dock ingen data tillgänglig gällande lagerkapaciteten som finns tillgänglig i fjärrvärmesystemen i dagsläget. Syftet med detta examensarbete är därför att kvantifiera och analysera den installerade lagerkapaciteten i Sveriges fjärrvärmesystem. Den insamlade datan kan sedan användas i studier för framtida applikationer för värmelager, så som att agera som balanskraft för elnätet. All insamlad informationen om värmelagernas kapacitet har även analyserats för att hitta samband mellan den relativa lagerkapaciteten för varje fjärrvärmesystem och dess storlek, energikällor, kundpriser samt driftkostnader. Slutsatser som har dragits från denna analys är att de flesta fjärrvämesystemen i Sverige har värmelager installerade, samt att värmelager är vanligare i större fjärrvärmesystem. De flesta värmelagren används till att balansera daliga variationer i värmelasten och värmelager sänker även driftkostnaderna för fjärrvärmesystemen.

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Öhrlund, Jack, and Catrin Östman. "DIGITALIZATION IS HEATING UP THE BUSINESS MODEL : A degree project regarding the impact of digitalization on a business model canvas within district heating." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för ekonomi, samhälle och teknik, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-39808.

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The purpose of this degree project is to analyze and investigate how digitalization will affect business modeling in the district heating business. The chosen approach to this degree project was an iterative, abductive method, in order to always use a feedback-analysis and to keep the project open for new findings. The interviews were a mix of a structured method and a qualitative approach. With the structured method, the findings from the interviews were similar and regarding the research topic, and the qualitative approach in some open questions led to matters that otherwise would have been unnoticed. The interviews were performed via e-mail, phone and through personal interviews. This degree project concluded that digitalization has an impact on business modeling in district heating. Digitalization will affect some elements in a major way, for example key resources that will be characterized by digitalization. The findings from this work showed that a business model operating in district heating in a time of digitalization should focus on three main parts: economy, environment and easy visualization. An optimization tool should focus on delivering a value that consist of these three, and the remaining elements should together contribute to that value proposition. Syftet med detta examensarbete är att analysera och undersöka hur digitaliseringen kommer att påverka affärsmodellering inom fjärrvärmebranschen. Det valda tillvägagångssättet för detta examensarbete är en iterativ, abduktiv metod för att hela tiden återkoppla och hålla studien öppen för nya intryck. Intervjuerna är en kombination av strukturerad metod blandad med en kvalitativ ansats. Med den strukturerade metoden blir svaren inom samma ram samtidigt som den kvalitativa aspekten lockar fram svar som annars skulle passera obemärkta. Intervjuerna genomfördes via mail, telefon samt genom personliga intervjuer. Detta examensarbete drar slutsatsen att digitaliseringen kommer påverka affärsmodeller inom fjärrvärme. Digitaliseringen kommer påverka vissa element i större utsträckning som till exempel nyckelresurserser som kommer präglas av digitaliseringen. Upptäckterna från studien visar att en affärsmodell verksam inom fjärrvärme i en tid präglad av digitaliseringen ska fokusera på tre delar: ekonomi, miljö och lättförstådd visualisering. Ett optimeringsverktyg ska fokusera på att leverera ett värde som innehåller dem tre delarna och resterande element ska tillsammans bidra till det värdeerbjudandet.

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Nordenstam, Lena. "Corporate and city GHG inventories : Impact on global CO2 emissionswhen considering electricity and CHP-based district heating." Licentiate thesis, Linköpings universitet, Energisystem, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-152490.

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One initiative to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions involves developing standards for GHG inventories. Companies and cities (regions) can use GHG inventories to compile and report their GHG emissions. Standards for corporate and city GHG inventories often claim that GHG inventories can be used for identifying emissions opportunities, building reduction strategies and setting, measuring and reporting emissions targets. Attributional emissions factors are generally used in corporate and city GHG inventories. For purchased electricity, heat and steam, this means using average emission factors for regional or national production of each energy carrier. Also contractual emissions factors can be used. Changes in emissions from affected production elsewhere are not included. For purchased electricity and district heating (DH), a GHG inventory can be improved by lowered purchases or by purchasing a different energy carrier. Furthermore, combined heat and power (CHP) technology can help reduce global GHG emissions in the supply and conversion of energy, as CHP production is more efficient than conventional separate production of electricity and heat. In CHP production, excess heat from electricity production is utilised for heating buildings, hot water, industry processes etc., either directly or through DH systems. This thesis analyses how emissions reduction measures based on corporate or city GHG inventories, carried out using GHG Protocol standards, affect global CO2 emissions when electricity or CHP-based DH is affected. The incentive of a GHG inventory to a company purchasing electricity and DH, and to a city regarding purchases and production of electricity and DH in its region, is analysed. This is done for GHG inventories conducted in a nation where electricity produced within the nation is regarded as CO2-lean (Sweden) and in a nation where it is more CO2-rich (Germany). The indirect incentive to the DH company to change its production, in order to improve the GHG inventory of its customers and of the city where the DH system is located, is also analysed. Consequential analyses are used to assess how global CO2 emissions are affected by changes in purchases or production of electricity and DH that are incentivised by the GHG inventories studied. These consequential analyses include changes in emissions from affected electricity production elsewhere. The results show that the strength of incentive to reduce purchase of electricity or CHP-based DH by a company or in a city can differ between GHG inventories and consequential analysis. This is most clear when electricity produced within the nation is regarded as CO2-lean (Sweden) while affected electricity production elsewhere is CO2-rich. For replacing purchases of CHP-based DH with electricity, or vice versa, the incentive in a GHG inventory can be the reverse of that in a consequential analysis. Moreover, the incentive to lower the use of electricity is lost when contractual emissions factors with zero emissions, such as renewable electricity guarantees of origin (RE-GOs), are used. In addition, purchase of electricity RE-GOs, which have a large surplus and no requirement of additionality, is less likely to cause a corresponding increase in production of renewable electricity. Furthermore, when the highest emission reduction per Euro invested is sought (e.g. when investment resources are limited), the investment ranking of a heat-only boiler and a CHP plant can differ depending on whether the focus is on improving a city GHG inventory or lowering global CO2 emissions. Moreover, if the DH company improves (reduces) the average emissions factor for DH, it improves the GHG inventory of its customers and of the city where they are located. In a DH system based on bio-fuelled CHP production, the average emissions factor for DH improves when CHP electricity production is lowered to the extent that production of heat at the oil-fuelled heat-only boiler (used for peak heat production) is minimised. However, according to consequential analysis, this would lead to an increase in global CO2 emissions. Based on the results of this thesis, it is concluded that measures which include changes in purchases or production of electricity or CHP-based DH can increase global CO2 emissions when based on how corporate or city GHG inventories in general value CO2 emissions of electricity and DH. It is therefore unfortunate that GHG Protocol standards for corporate and city GHG inventories advocate basing emissions reduction decisions on GHG inventories. There is nonetheless an obvious risk of reported and communicated GHG inventories being used as a basis for emissions reductions decisions. If the aim is actual reduction of global CO2 emissions, average or purchased emissions factors should not be used for purchased electricity and CHP-based DH when assessing, reporting or communicating the impact of companies and cities (regions) on CO2 emissions. Instead, a consequential approach should be used for climate evaluation of purchased electricity and DH. Ett av många initiativ för att minska utsläpp av klimatpåverkande gaser är framtagandet av regelverk för klimatredovisningar. Klimatredovisningarna kan användas av företag och städer (regioner) för att sammanställa och rapportera om företagets eller stadens utsläpp av klimatpåverkande gaser. I regelverken för framtagande av klimatredovisningarna betonas ofta att klimatredovisningen kan användas för att identifiera var utsläppsminskningar kan göras, att utveckla strategier för att minska klimatpåverkande utsläpp samt för att sätta, mäta och följa upp mål för klimatpåverkande utsläpp. En klimatredovisning innehåller vanligtvis bokföringsvärden, vilket innebär att lokala genomsnittliga utsläppsfaktorer används för köpt el och värme. Även köpta utsläppsfaktorer kan användas. Klimatredovisningen inkluderar inte ändringar i utsläpp från produktion som påverkas någon annanstans. En klimatredovisning kan förbättras t ex genom att mindre energi köps eller genom byte av energibärare. För el- och värmeförsörjning kan kraftvärmeteknik bidra till minskade globala utsläpp av koldioxid (CO2), eftersom kraftvärmeproduktion är mer effektivt än separat produktion av el och värme. Vid kraftvärmeproduktion tas överskottsvärmen från elproduktionen tillvara för att värma byggnader, varmvatten, industriprocesser mm, antingen direkt eller via fjärrvärmesystem. I denna avhandling analyseras hur globala utsläpp av CO2 påverkas av åtgärder som påverkar förbrukning eller produktion av el och fjärrvärme, när beslut om sådana åtgärder baseras på ett företags eller en stads klimatredovisning, gjorda enligt Greenhouse Gas Protocols regelverk. Incitamenten i ett el- och fjärrvärmeköpande företags klimatredovisning och i en stads klimatredovisning analyseras. Detta görs för klimatredovisningar utförda i ett land där elproduktionen inom landet är CO2-mager (Sverige) och ett land med mer CO2-rik elproduktion (Tyskland). Dessutom analyseras de indirekta incitament som dessa klimatredovisningar ger till det lokala fjärrvärmeföretaget att ändra sin produktion för att förbättra sina kunders klimatredovisningar och klimatredovisningen för staden där fjärrvärmeverksamheten finns. Konsekvensanalyser görs för att beräkna hur olika åtgärder som stödjs av klimatredovisningarna påverkar globala CO2-utsläpp. I konsekvensanalyserna inkluderas också förändringar i utsläpp från påverkad elproduktion, även om den förändringen sker någon annan stans. Resultaten visar att styrkan i incitamentet att minska ett företags eller en stads inköp av el eller fjärrvärme kan skilja sig mellan en klimatredovisning och en konsekvensanalys. Detta är särskilt tydligt när klimatredovisningen görs i ett land där elproduktionen inom landet är CO2-mager (Sverige) medan den påverkade elproduktionen är CO2-rik. När det gäller utbyte av fjärrvärme mot el eller tvärtom kan en klimatredovisning ge motsatta incitament jämfört med den ledningen en konsekvensanalys ger. När köpta emissionsfaktorer med nollutsläpp för el används, t ex förnybara ursprungsgarantier, försvinner incitamentet att minska elanvändningen. Det är dessutom mindre sannolikt att ett köp av förnybara ursprungsgarantier för el medför motsvarande ökning av produktion av förnybar el, då överskottet av förnybara ursprungsgarantier för el är stort och additionalitetskrav saknas. När investeringsresurser är begränsade kan det vara av intresse att utvärdera vilken investering som ger mest reduktion av klimatpåverkande gaser per investering. Avhandlingens resultat visar att investering i hetvattenproduktion och kraftvärmeproduktion då kan komma att sinsemellan rangordnas olika, beroende på om målet är att förbättra stadens klimatbokslut eller om målet är att minska globala utsläpp av CO2. Om fjärrvärmeföretaget förbättrar (minskar) genomsnittlig emissionsfaktor för sin fjärrvärme, förbättras klimatbokslutet för deras kunder och för staden där fjärrvärmesystemet är beläget. Resultaten visar också att i ett fjärrvärmesystem, som baseras på ett bioeldat kraftvärmeverk och där olja används för efterfrågetoppar när det är som allra kallast, förbättras fjärrvärmens emissionsfaktor när elproduktionen i kraftvärmeverket minskas. Dock visar konsekvensanalysen att ett sådant agerande kan medföra ökade globala utsläpp av CO2. Baserat på resultaten dras slutsatsen att beslut om åtgärder, som påverkar köp eller produktion av el eller kraftvärmebaserad fjärrvärme, kan orsaka ökning av globala CO2-utsläpp om de baseras på de incitament ett klimatbokslut ger. Det är därför olyckligt att GHG Protocols regelverk för företags och städers klimatbokslut rekommenderar att klimatboksluten används för beslut som avser att minska utsläpp av CO2. Även om de inte rekommenderade detta, finns ändå en uppenbar risk att rapporterade och kommunicerade klimatbokslut används som bas för beslut om åtgärder som syftar till minskade utsläpp av CO2. Om syftet är minskade globala CO2-utsläpp bör genomsnittliga och köpta emissionsfaktorer inte användas för klimatvärdering av köpt el och kraftvärmebaserad fjärrvärme när ett företags eller en stads (regions) klimatpåverkan beräknas, rapporteras eller kommuniceras. För klimatvärdering av köpt el och fjärrvärme bör i stället en konsekvensbaserad metod användas.

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Sjödin, Jörgen. "Swedish district heating systems and a harmonised European energy market : means to reduce global carbon emissions /." Linköping : Univ, 2003. http://www.bibl.liu.se/liupubl/disp/disp2003/tek795s.pdf.

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Falk, Paul Michael [Verfasser], Peter [Akademischer Betreuer] Stephan, and Liselotte [Akademischer Betreuer] Schebek. "Evaluation of district heating systems based on exergy analysis / Paul Michael Falk ; Peter Stephan, Liselotte Schebek." Darmstadt : Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt, 2018. http://d-nb.info/1160381771/34.

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Poutiainen, Zacharias. "Short-Term Heat Load Forecasting in District Heating Systems : A Comparative Study of Various Forecasting Methods." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-265670.

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Short term heat load forecasts are vital for optimal production planning and commitment of generation units. The generation utility also bares a balance responsibility toward the electricity market as a result of CHP generation. Sub-optimal load forecasts can lead to high costs relating to unit commitment, fuel usage and balancing costs. This thesis presents the empirical comparison of various models for 24h heat load forecasting. Five methods were investigated including four supervised machine learning algorithms; neural networks, support vector machines, random forests and boosted decision trees and one auto-regressive time series model; ARIMAX. The models were developed, and evaluated using cross validation with one year of hourly heat load data from a local district heating system and corresponding meteorological data from the same time period. The thesis also investigates the impact of feature selection on the predictive power and generalization ability of the models. The results indicate a significant difference in forecast accuracy between the methods with neural networks and ARIMAX showing the best and similar performance followed by the support vector machine, boosted decision trees and random forest. Korttidsprognoser för fjärrvärmelast är mycket viktiga för optimal produktionsplanering. Energibolag som använder kraftvärme bär dessutom balansansvar gentemot elmarknaden. Sub-optimala lastprognoser kan leda till höga kostnader för start och stopp, bränsleåtgång och obalanser. Detta examensarbete presenterar den empiriska jämförelsen av olika modeller avseende 24-timmars lastprognostisering. Totalt fem metoder undersöktes varav fyra maskininlärningsalgoritmer; neurala nätverk, stödvektormaskin, random forest samt boosted desicion trees och en tidsseriemodell; ARIMAX. Modellerna utvecklades, och utvärderades med hjälp av korsvalidering på ett års värden av timvis lastdata från ett lokalt fjärrvärmenät och motsvarande väderdata för samma tidsperiod. Examensarbetet undersöker även inverkan av variabelselektion på prognosernas precision och förmåga att generalisera. Resultaten tyder på en signifikant skillnad i noggrannhet mellan de olika modellerna. Bäst resultat uppnåddes av neurala nätverk och ARIMAX med en liten skillnad sinsemellan, följt av stödvektormaskin, boosted decision trees och random forest.

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Gustafsson, Mattias. "Evaluation of energy conserving measures in buildings connected to a district heating system : case studies in Gävle, Sweden." Licentiate thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Energisystem, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-21398.

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When different energy conserving measures are implemented for reducing energy use in buildings and the buildings are connected to district heating systems, it is important that an overall system analysis is made which takes into account the effects of total change of energy use due to the energy conserving measures. The method applied in this thesis uses hourly production data for the different production units in the district heating system in Gävle, Sweden. The merit order of the different production units is dependent on the electricity spot market price. To calculate the merit order, hourly data for the electricity price is used. The marginal production unit can then be determined for each hour of the investigated year. This thesis analyzes five different energy conserving measures in a multi-dwelling building regarding how they affect the marginal production units in the district heating system. For CO2 emission evaluations, two different combinations of heat and electricity conserving measures are compared to installation of an exhaust air heat pump. This thesis also analyzes how the configuration of the electric meter affects the measured amount of self-consumed and produced excess electricity for a single-family house and for two multi-dwelling buildings of different sizes. The results show that the use of electricity is the most important objective to consider. The increased use of electricity for operation of the heat pump contributes to an increase of global CO2 emissions and the electricity produced by the solar photovoltaic installation contributes to a decrease of global CO2 emissions. The results also show that the configuration of the electric meter is important for the single-family house but negligible for the multi-dwelling buildings. The amount of produced excess electricity is high for all buildings, which means that the economic value of produced excess electricity is important for a profitable installation.

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Kallhovd, Magnhild. "Analysis on Methods and the Influence of Different System Data When Calculating Primary Energy Factors for Heat from District Heating Systems." Thesis, Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet, Institutt for energi- og prosessteknikk, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:no:ntnu:diva-16354.

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A steady growing global demand for energy and rising greenhouse gas emissions has resulted in several initiatives from the European Union with the purpose of increasing energy efficiency. A part of this strategy is the introduction of energy performance certificates for buildings, containing a numerical primary energy indicator. Another instrument is to encourage an increased use of cogeneration. As a member of the European Economic Area agreement, these events also affect Norway. The main aim of the project was to investigate how various relevant parameters influence the primary energy factor of district heating when a combined heat and power (CHP) plant is the heat producing unit. The study was to be based on Norwegian conditions. To select relevant technologies, a mapping of existing and planned CHP facilities connected to district heating (DH) networks in Norway was carried out. The findings were that at present, there are nine steam cycle CHP plants connected to DH networks that are based on waste incineration, one steam cycle that is based on demolition wood and one reciprocating engine that is running on biogas. The installed electric capacity ranged from 0,3 MW to 22,8 MW and the annual district heating production from 1,5 GWh to 196 GWh. Based on this, it was decided to study steam cycle CHP plants further. Three different sizes were chosen: 2 MWel, 10 MWel and 25 MWel.In addition, the situation in Europe was looked into. Here, steam cycle and combined cycle were found to be the two most dominant CHP technologies. To have a different technology to compare with, a combined cycle with 22,7MWel capacity was also included in the study.By running plant simulations, the effects of part load operation, various district heating supply and return temperatures and different fuel types were quantified. STEAM Pro was utilised to design the steam cycle models, while GT Pro was used to design the combined cycle models. STEAM Pro was also used to perform design simulations for different temperature levels in the DH network and to study the effect of different types of fuels. To be able to investigate the part load performance of the plants based on a given district heating demand, the models from STEAM Pro and GT Pro was imported into Thermoflex and modified.Reducing the DH supply temperature from 120 to 80 °C and the return temperature from 80 to 35 °C in the 10 MW steam cycle plant increased the power efficiency by 25% and the power to heat ratio by 33%, but the total efficiency was only slightly increased. Variation of fuel, on the other hand, influenced the power efficiency and the total efficiency almost equally, and the power to heat ratio was hence left relatively unaltered. The results from the simulations at the defined full load conditions showed that power efficiency was more than twice as high for the combined cycle than for the steam cycle plants, and the power to heat ratio was almost four times higher for the CC plant. The total efficiency was approximately 10 % lower for the combined cycle than for the steam cycles.Performance also varied between the different sizes of steam cycles, and both boiler type and turbine size influenced power efficiencies and power to heat ratios. In contrast, the total efficiencies were close to equal. Part load had a great influence on power efficiency and power to heat ratio for all technology types. Especially at very low load levels, the power efficiency was considerably reduced. The combined cycle experienced a total fall in power efficiency of 40%, while the reduction varied from 60% to only 29% for the steam cycle plants. The part load total efficiency was only slightly reduced for all plants. Based on the part load simulations, annual efficiencies and power to heat ratios were calculated for different annual load distributions. The annual power to heat ratio and power efficiency was clearly influenced by changes in the annual load distribution pattern, while the effect was less notable for the annual total efficiencies. To calculate the primary energy factors, the total efficiency and power to heat ratio results from the CHP plant simulations were implemented in an excel tool developed by [16]. Some other modifications were also performed.The district heating primary energy factors (PEFDH) for the defined base case varied from 0,85 for the Combined Cycle* alternative to 1,4 for the 2 MW steam cycle plant. The base case was defined to have medium energy density(8 MWh/m). This was later found to not represent the actual Norwegian conditions, where the average energy density is closer to 4 MWh/m. When this energy density was used, the PEFDH for the 10 MW steam cycle plant increased 9,4%, from 1,38 to 1,51. This value is still considerably lower than the primary energy factor for the average electricity production in the Nordic countries, which is 2,16.It was found that the combined heat and power plant parameters had a significant influence on the primary energy factors. The power to heat ratio was particularly important when the power bonus method was utilised. One main conclusion is therefore that it is important that the performance indicators that are used for the CHP plant are realistic, and takes into account technology type, part load performance and what load duration curve the plant is subject to. In most of the cases studied, the fuel handling process and the use of additives contributed most to the primary energy losses related to the PEFDH, while the sum of primary energy losses was dominated by the losses occurring in the CHP plant and the fuel handling. Nevertheless, what process and parameters that could potentially improve the PEFDH most depended on technology and choice of allocation method. In all cases studied, pump work related to circulating the DH water and energy consumption related to ash transport, construction and dismantling of the CHP plant and DH pipes were negligible or close to negligible. Heat loss became a considerably more dominant primary energy loss contributor when a low energy density was assumed. In the end, the calculation of primary energy factors involves many choices that influence the results. It is therefore important that the calculation method becomes more standardised. As it is today, some processes are optional, for instance the use of additives. In this study, the use of additives had a non-negligible influence on the results. Furthermore, the CHP simulation results underlined the importance of taking type of CHP technology and operational conditions into account when calculating primary energy factors for this kind of systems.According to NS-EN 15316-4-5, the power bonus method is the allocation method that should be utilised when calculating primary energy factors for district heating. This makes the district heating primary energy factors extremely dependent on power to heat ratio and the choice of PEF for avoided electricity. If the amount of avoided electricity production in fact is smaller than the full amount of CHP production or if the PEF of the avoided electricity is lower than what is assumed, this might lead to a severe underestimation of the PEFDH. The ultimate goal with the use of primary energy is to encourage more efficient energy use. It is therefore important that the issues mentioned in the two paragraphs above are further studied and discussed as a part of exploring how a standard method should be designed to face this challenge.

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Larsson, Josefine. "Effect on district heating systems in Dalarna County from energy efficiency measures in buildings - a scenario study to 2050." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Fasta tillståndets fysik, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-170112.

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Energi Intelligent is a program in Dalarna County with the purpose of finding ways of enhancing the efficiency of energy use and thereby be able to reach a more sustainable use of energy resources[1]. The basis of this program is the energy goal that has been prepared for Dalarna County published in Dalarnas miljömål[2]. The energy goal is divided into a number of intermediate goals, the sixth, Delmål 6, is to reduce energy consumption in buildings with 50 percent until 2050, and with 30 percent until 2025[3]. There are often a large number of different sectors involved that have got differing opinions and intentions. This makes the task far more complex than simply reducing energy consumption, because energy efficiency is one goal and that would mean that power companies would not be able to continue increasing their profit. The aim of this project was to analyze the effects on energy production when reducing the use of heat demand in buildings until 2050. The district heating systems constitutes the main part of heating of buildings in the county and that is why it has been analyzed in this project. The simulation tool that was suggested in the declaration of the thesis work was LEAP, the Long range energy alternative planning system tool for simulating different scenarios over years from the base year of the model. The idea was to build energy models of Falun district heating system and Borlänge district heating system in LEAP. Scenarios were defined for the energy goals and then simulated in a model of district heating system. Simulation of the district heating systems were made from the scenarios; reducing the district heating production with 30 percent until 2025 and 50 percent until 2050. The results from the analysis showed that for Falun district heating system the reduction of district heat demand will lead to decreased heat and electricity production and there will be no need for further investment. In Borlänge district heating system capacity is lower than the total capacity of all the available waste resources and there have been discussions about investing in a third municipal waste incineration boiler that would increase the total capacity so Borlänge district heating system could have waste incineration that covers the resources of the fuel cost favorable municipal and industrial waste.

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Bäcklund, Johannes. "Energieffektivisering av fjärrvärme- och fjärrkylanätet på campus i Umeå : Energy efficiency of the district heating and cooling systems on campus in Umeå." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för tillämpad fysik och elektronik, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-148393.

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Detta examensarbete utfördes på uppdrag av Akademiska Hus som äger och förvaltar fastigheterna på campus i Umeå. Projektet bestod av att utifrån en övergripande bild på det interna fjärrvärme- och fjärrkylanätet på campus, ta fram alternativa utformningar på systemet i syfte om att göra det mer energieffektivt. Systemets interna fjärrvärme- och fjärrkylanät VP100 och KB100 växlar över värme och kyla från Umeå Energi som sedan distribueras vidare till fjärrvärme- och fjärrkylacentraler på campus. Några av centralerna har egenproduktion där returledningen från KB100 går till en värmepump som producerar både värme och kyla. Producerad värme används till att förvärma returledningen från uppvärmningssystemen från de byggnader som hör till respektive central. När behovet av värme är tillräckligt stort är systemet, tack vare värmepumparna, självförsörjande gällande kyla. Produktion sker alltså endast under de perioder då det finns behov i uppvärmningssystemen. Det leder till att systemet tvingas köpa både värme och kyla samtidigt under sommaren då behovet av kyla i stort sett är konstant under året. Två alternativa utformningar till det befintliga systemet har undersökts. Det första fallet har som syfte att reducera värmeförlusterna i VP100. Det andra fallet byggdes vidare på det första fallet med syftet att utvidga arbetsområdet för värme- och kylproduktionen i värmepumparna. Resultatet visar att det finns potential att mer än halvera värmeförlusterna i det befintliga VP100 och att produktionen av värme och kyla skulle kunna öka med 10 % respektive 6 %. Totalt skulle systemet kunna spara drygt 1,3 miljoner kWh per år genom en kombination av de två alternativa utformningarna. För att däremot få energibalans i systemet där det aldrig behöver köpas både värme och kyla samtidigt bör andra effektiviseringsåtgärder övervägas.

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Eriksson, Niclas. "Predicting demand in districtheating systems : A neural network approach." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Avdelningen för beräkningsvetenskap, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-175082.

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To run a district heating system as efficiently as possible correct unit-commitmentdecisions has to be made and in order to make those decisions a good forecast ofheat demand for the coming planning period is necessary. With a high quality forecastthe need for backup power and the risk for a too high production are lowered. Thisthesis takes a neural network approach to load forecasting and aims to provide asimple, yet powerful, tool that can provide accurate load forecasts from existingproduction data without the need for extensive model building.The developed software is tested using real life data from two co-generation plantsand the conclusion is that when the quality of the raw data is good, the software canproduce very good forecasting results.

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Lundström, Lukas. "Heat demand profiles of buildings' energy conservation measures and their impact on renewable and resource efficient district heating systems." Licentiate thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Framtidens energi, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-31495.

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Increased energy performance of the building stock of European Union is seen as an important measure towards mitigating climate change, increasing resource utilisation efficiency and energy supply security. Whether to improve the supply-side, the demand-side or both is an open issue. This conflict is even more apparent in countries such as Sweden with a high penetration of district heating (DH). Many Swedish DH systems have high share of secondary energy resources such as forest industry residuals, waste material incineration and waste heat; and resource efficient cogeneration of electricity in combined heat and power (CHP) plants. When implementing an energy conservation measure (ECM) in a DH connected building stock, it will affect the operation of the whole DH system. If there are CHP plants and the cogeneration of electricity decreases due to an ECM, and this electricity is valued higher than the fuel savings, the consequences of the ECM would be negative. These complex relationships are investigated by conducting a case study on the Eskilstuna DH system, a renewable energy supply system with relatively high share of cogenerated electricity. Heat demand profiles of ECMs are determined by building energy simulation, using recently deep energy retrofitted multifamily buildings of the “Million Programme”-era in Eskilstuna as model basis. How implementing ECMs impact on the DH system’s heat and electricity production under different electricity revenue scenarios has been computed and evaluated in terms of resource efficiency and CO2 emissions. The results show that different ECMs in the buildings impact differently on the DH system. Measures such as improved insulation level of the building’s envelope, that decrease the heat demand’s dependence to outdoor temperature, increase the amount of cogenerated electricity. While measures such as thermal solar panels, which save heat during summer, affects the absolute amount of cogenerated electricity negatively. Revenues from cogenerated electricity influence the amount of cost-effectively produced electricity much more than the impact from ECMs. Environmental benefits of the ECMs, measured in CO2 emissions and primary energy consumption, are quite small in DH systems that have high share of forest residual fuels and electricity cogeneration. The consequences can even be negative if ECMs lead to increased need of imported electricity that is produced resource inefficiently or/and by fossil fuels. However, all studied ECMs increase the relative amount of cogenerated electricity, the ratio between amount of cogenerated electricity and the heat load. This implied that all ECMs increase the overall efficiency of the Eskilstuna DH system.

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Wennberg, Tim. "Fjärrvärme och frånluftsvärmepump : Systemets lönsamhet och primärenergitalets inverkan." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Energisystem och byggnadsteknik, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-29713.

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Kombinationen av fjärrvärme och frånluftsvärmepump (FVP) har blivit allt vanligare i Sverige. Detta kombinerade värmesystem är väl lämpat för att reducera energianvändningen i befintliga fastigheter med mekanisk frånluftventilation som saknar värmeåtervinning. Dock kan en FVP-installation leda till högre returtemperaturer i fjärrvärmenätet vilket det ofta finns avgifter för i dagsläget. För att främja fjärrvärmeanvändning sommartid använder fjärrvärmeleverantören sig av säsongsvarierande prismodeller i vilket fjärrvärmepriset varierar under en del av året. Genom att stänga av FVP sommartid och endast bruka fjärrvärme finns en potentiell kostnadsbesparing då fjärrvärmepriset är som lägst. Denna kostnadsbesparing undersöks utifrån olika typer av fjärrvärmetaxor, elnätsavgifter och elhandelspris. Det undersöks också hur Boverkets regler för beräkning av primärenergital påverkar denna värmesystemtyp. Typiska prismodeller för fjärrvärme har undersökts, samt så har energianvändning framräknats för sex fiktiva flerbostadshus runtom i landet. För varje byggnad beräknas energianvändningen utifrån tre fall. I referensfallet, Fall 1 används bara fjärrvärme och i Fall 2 används FVP till både uppvärmning och tappvarmvatten (TVV). Fall 3 är som Fall 2 fast FVP täcker inget TVV-behov och stängs av under sommar-perioden. Energianvändningen är framräknad över ett år och energikostnaden jämförs mellan fallen. I Fall 2 och Fall 3 är de totala energikostnaderna för byggnaderna mellan 61–75% respektive 67–78% av energikostnaderna i Fall 1. Mellan Fall 2- och 3 finns däremot ingen tydlig besparingstrend trots att alla fjärrvärmenät på orterna har ett säsongsvarierande fjärrvärmepris. Att ingen besparingstrend uppstår påvisar att kostnaden för varje levererad värmeenhet från FVP sommartid är ungefär lika stor som varje värmeenhet fjärrvärme. Detta beror på att en hög värmefaktor används vilket gör det väldigt kostnadseffektivt att köpa el. Med en lägre värmefaktor gynnas avstängning av FVP sommartid. Utifrån den framräknade energianvändningen beräknas primärenergitalet och den specifika energianvändningen för samtliga byggnader. Primärenergitalet är i de flesta fall större än den specifika energianvändningen för att elanvändningen räknas upp. I Luleå är däremot den specifika energianvändningen större än primärenergitalet, även vid användning av FVP. The combination of district heating and exhaust air heat pump (EAHP) has become increasingly common in Sweden. This combined heating system is well suited for reducing energy use in existing buildings with mechanical exhaust air ventilation that lacks heat recovery. However, an EAHP installation can lead to higher return temperatures in the district heating network. In order to promote district heating use during the summer, the district heating supplier use seasonal varying price models in which the district heating price varies during some of the year. By shutting down EAHP in summer and only using district heating, there is a potential cost saving as the district heating price is at its lowest. This cost saving is investigated based on various types of district heating tariffs, electricity grid charges and electricity prices. It is also examined how Boverket's rules for calculating primary energy affects this type of heating system. Typical price models for district heating have been investigated. The energy use for six fictitious multi-dwelling buildings around the country has also been made. For each building, the energy use was calculated from three cases. For the reference case, Case 1, only district heating is used, for Case 2 EAHP is used for both heating and domestic hot water and Case 3 is as Case 2 fixed EAHP does not cover domestic hot water requirements and is switched off during the summer period. The energy consumption is calculated over a year and the energy cost is compared between the cases. In Case 2 and Case 3, the total energy costs for the buildings are between 61–75% and 67–78% of the energy costs in Case 1, respectively. However, between Case 2- and 3, there is no clear saving trend despite all the locations having a seasonally varying district heating price. The fact that no saving trend arises shows that the cost of each heat unit delivered from FVP in the summer is about the same as each heating unit of district heating. This is because a high COP (coefficient of performance) is used, which makes it very cost-effective to buy electricity. With a lower COP, shutdown of EAHP benefits summer time. Based on the calculated energy use, the primary energy and the specific energy use are calculated for all buildings. In most cases, the primary energy number is larger than the specific energy use, as the electricity consumption is going to be larger with primary energy. In Luleå, on the other hand, the energy-area ratio is greater than the primary energy number, even when using an EAHP.

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Magnusson, Dick. "District Heating in a Liberalized Energy Market: A New Order? : Planning and Development in the Stockholm Region, 1978-2012." Doctoral thesis, Linköpings universitet, Tema teknik och social förändring, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-88708.

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This dissertation analyses how district heating systems in the Stockholm region have evolved and developed during the period 1978-2012. The thesis comprises four papers analyzing how district heating has been handled in municipal and regional planning. The examination explores how actors have worked together to create regional, interconnected district heating systems with economic, technological and environmental benefits. An investigation is undertaken on the effects of liberalization (and the subsequent commercialization of the district heating market) on the planning and cooperation of these systems. The impact on the present and future district heating market is also discussed. The dissertation shows that energy companies cooperated on a regional level to create interconnected regional systems. Through openness, the capacity to make high-level decisions and municipal legitimacy, the regional strategies could be implemented at the municipal level. This can be considered a form of regional planning from below that developed through the initiative of the municipalities. The regional energy planning authority Stoseb could therefore succeed where other regional planning authorities in the Stockholm region have previous failed, to gather and unite the municipalities into a regional force. This cooperation changed around the time of the liberalization of the energy market in 1996, which led to sales of several municipal energy companies and a subsequent concentration of ownership in the region. The organizational distance between energy companies and municipalities has increased and affected the communication between them. Regional cooperation could not be maintained and this has meant that opportunities and tools to implement energy strategies today are weaker than earlier. This is a case of ‘regional splintering’. The liberalization of the energy market thus had a major impact on the district heating sector. Denna sammanläggningsavhandling analyserar hur fjärrvärmesystemen iStockholmsregionen vuxit och förändrats, mellan 1978 och 2012. Avhandlingen består av fyra artiklar som analyserar hur fjärrvärme hanterats i kommunal och regional planering, hur aktörer samarbetat för att skapa regionala, sammankopplade fjärrvärmesystem med ekonomiska, tekniska och miljömässiga vinster som följd, hur elavregleringen, och den påföljande kommersialiseringen av fjärrvärmemarknaden, påverkade planering och samverkan kring dessa system, samt fjärrvärmemarknadens nuläge och framtid. Avhandlingen visar att energibolagen samarbetat på regional nivå för att skapa sammanhängande regionala system, genom öppet samarbete och att man tack vare hög beslutskompetens kunnat implementera de regionala strategierna på kommunal nivå. Det var en form av regional planering underifrån, då initiativet kom från kommunerna och samarbetsorganet lyckades med vad regionala planorgan haft svårt att genomföra under flertalet decennier i Stockholmsregion, nämligen att samla och ena kommunerna kring strategier som implementerats. Detta samarbete förändrades vid tiden runt liberaliseringen av energimarknaden, som genomfördes 1996, vilket ledde till försäljning av flertalet kommunala energibolag och en efterföljande koncentration av ägandeskapet i regionen. Det organisatoriska avståndet mellan energibolag och kommun har därmed blivit längre och påverkat kommunikationen dem emellan. Det regionala samarbetet kunde därmed inte fortsätta som tidigare och detta gör att möjligheterna och verktyg att implementera regionala energistrategier idag är svaga. Detta var ett fall av ”regional splintering”. Liberaliseringen av energimarknaden hade således stor påverkan påfjärrvärmesektorn.

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Eriksson, Stina. "Optimering av framledningstemperaturen i ett fjärrvärmenät genom lastmodellering och simulering." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Energisystem och byggnadsteknik, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-32790.

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I Sverige är fjärrvärme den vanligaste uppvärmningsformen. Vatten värms upp i en fjärrvärmeanläggning och distribueras genom nedgrävda rör i marken, också kallat fjärrvärmenätet. En tillförlitlig energimodell anses vara ett bra och viktigt hjälpmedel för analyser av värmeförluster som uppstår i ett fjärrvärmenät vid distribueringen av det heta vattnet. Sandviken Energis styrning av framledningstemperaturen sker idag utifrån en inställd styrkurva som tar hänsyn till vad det är för utetemperatur. Det var av intresse för studien att jämföra denna styrning med en simulerad framledningstemperatur och identifiera övertemperaturer i Sandviken Energis fjärrvärmenät i Sandviken. Detta gjordes utifrån att undersöka hur olika faktorer påverkade värmebehovet. De påverkande faktorer som studerats i detta examensarbete var följande: utetemperatur, månad, tid på dygnet och vindhastighet. Mätdata gällande valda påverkande faktorer hämtades för perioderna 2015 till och med 2019, analyserades och indelades för att se deras påverkan på värmelasten. Utifrån indelningen av faktorerna utvanns ekvationer från deras effektkurvors trendlinjer. Ekvationerna användes för att skapa en simuleringsmatris för styrningen. En egenskapad masterekvation simulerade den ideala styrningen utifrån simuleringsmatrisen och de krav på påverkande faktorer som ställs av ett exempel-år. Den ideala styrningen beräknades om till en ideal framledningstemperatur och jämfördes därefter med den verkliga framledningstemperaturen. Tillsammans med en värmeförlustsimulering i NetSim, som resulterade i vad sparad energi per grad är värd, kunde besparingspotentialen beräknas. Resultatet visar på att en besparingspotential på 261 MWh är möjlig att uppnå vid en sänkning av framledningstemperaturen för att utesluta övertemperaturer i fjärrvärmenätet, vilket är en minskning med ca 1,8 % jämfört med det verkliga året. Detta skulle motsvara en besparing på ca 70 000 SEK genom en förändring av styrningen. En minskad framledningstemperatur kommer påverka resten av systemet positivt, bland annat för att returtemperaturen kommer minska, rökgaskondenseringens och pannornas effektivitet öka samt minskade utsläpp i form av bland annat CO2, för att nämna några exempel. In Sweden district heating is the most common form of heating. Water is heated in a district heating plant and distributed through buried pipelines in the ground, also called the district heating network. A reliable energy model is considered to be a good and important tool for analysis of heat losses that occur in a district heating network when the hot water is distributed. Sandviken Energi’s control of the supply temperature is based today on a set control curve that takes into account what the outdoor temperature is. It was of interest to this study to compare this control with a simulated supply temperature and identify overtemperatures in Sandviken Energi’s district heating network in Sandviken. This was done on the basis of examining how different factors affected the heat demand. The influencing factors studied in the thesis were the following: outdoor temperature, month, time of day and wind speed. Measurement data on selected influencing factors were collected for the periods 2015 through 2019, analyzed and subdivided to see their effect on the heat load. From the subdivision of the factors, equations were extracted from the trend lines of their effect curves. The equations were used to create a simulations matrix for the control. A custom master equation simulated the ideal control based on the simulation matrix and the demands on influencing factors set by an example year. The ideal control was recalculated to an ideal supply temperature and then compared with the actual supply temperature. Together with a heat loss simulation in NetSim, which resulted in what energy saved per degree is worth, the savings potential could be calculated. The result shows that a saving potential of 261 MWh is possible to achieve by lowering the supply temperature to exclude excess temperatures in the district heating network, which is a decrease of about 1.8 % compared to the real year. This would correspond to a savings of about 70 000 SEK through a change in control. A reduced supply temperature will have a positive impact on the rest of the system, including reducing the return temperature, increasing the efficiency of flue gas condensation and boilers, and reducing emissions such as CO2, to name a few examples.

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Jönsson, Linnea. "Thermal energy storage systems in an energy company's district heating system : Exploring ways of handling daily and seasonal heat load variations in Höganäs." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Energivetenskap, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-29800.

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Amiri, Shahnaz, and Bahram Moshfegh. "Possibilities and consequences of deregulation of the European electricity market for connection of heat sparse areas to district heating systems." Linköpings universitet, Energisystem, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-58385.

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The objective of the study is to analyse the conditions for connection of residential buildings in heat sparse areas to district heating systems in order to increase electricity production in municipal combined heat and power plants. The European electricity market has been assumed to be fully deregulated. The relation between connection of heat sparse areas, increased electricity and heat production as well as electricity prices, fuel prices and emissions rights is investigated. The results of the study show that there is potential to expand the district heating market to areas with lower heat concentrations in the cities of Gavle, Sandviken and Borlange in Sweden, with both economic and environmental benefits. The expansion provides a substantial heat demand of approximately 181 GWh/year, which results in an electricity power production of approximately 43 GWh/year. Since the detached and stand-alone houses in the studied heat sparse areas have been heated either by oil boiler or by direct electricity, connection to district heating also provides a substantial reduction in emissions of CO2. The largest reductions in CO2 emissions are found to be 211 ktonnes/year assuming coal-fired condensing power as marginal electricity production. Connection of heat sparse areas to district heating decrease the system costs and provide a profitability by approximately 22 million EURO/year for the studied municipalities if the price of electricity is at a European level, i.e. 110 EURO/MWh. Sensitivity analysis shows, among other things, that a strong relation exists between the price of electricity and the profitability of connecting heat sparse areas to district heating systems. Original Publication:Shahnaz Amiri and Bahram Moshfegh, Possibilities and consequences of deregulation of the European electricity market for connection of heat sparse areas to district heating systems, 2010, Applied Energy, (87), 7, 2401-2410.http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2010.02.002Copyright: Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam.http://www.elsevier.com/

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Smith, Bryan C. "Flow birefringence, nuclear magnetic resonance and corrosion measurements on drag reducing cationic surfactant solutions for district heating and cooling systems /." The Ohio State University, 1992. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487780865409286.

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Klugman, Sofia. "Energy systems analysis of Swedish pulp and paper industries from a regional cooperation perspective : Case study modeling and optimization." Doctoral thesis, Linköpings universitet, Energisystem, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-11673.

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The industrial sector uses about one third of the energy end-use in the world. Since energy use in many cases highly affects both the local and global environment negatively, it is of common interest to increase energy efficiency within industries. Furthermore, seen from the industrial perspective, it is also important to reduce dependency on energy resources with unstable prices in order to obtain economic predictability. In this thesis, the energy-saving potential within the chemical pulp and paper sector is analyzed. One market pulp mill and one integrated pulp and paper mill were studied as cases. Energy system changes at the mills were analyzed through cost minimization. The thesis focuses on principal energy issues such as finding the most promising alternatives for use of industrial excess heat, possible investments in electricity generation and choice of fuel. In order to find synergies, the same system was optimized first from the perspective of different operators respectively, and then from a joint regional perspective. Also, the prerequisites for a regional heat market in the region were analyzed. This thesis reveals that the use of excess heat from pulp and paper mills for district heating does not generally conflict with process integration measures. This is partly because of the great availability of industrial excess heat and partly because the different purposes require different temperatures and thereby do not compete. Rather, the results show that they strengthen each other since steam and hot water of higher temperatures are made available for district heating when hot water of lower temperature is used for process integration. However, there are cases when the conditions are complicated by preexisting technical solutions within a system. In these cases, a combination of measures could be necessary. Furthermore, it is concluded that energy cooperation in terms of a heat market between municipalities and industries in the studied region gives opportunity for positive synergies. Switching from expensive fuels such as oil to less expensive biofuel in the region proved to be particularly beneficial. Expanding the capacity for combined heat and power generation is also beneficial for the region as well as increased use of industrial excess heat for district heating. The most financially beneficial scenarios also have the greatest potential for CO2 emission reduction; the emissions would be reduced by about 700 thousand tonnes CO2/year for the region in those scenarios. Den industriella energianvändningen utgör en tredjedel av världens totala energianvändning. Eftersom energianvändning i många fall har negativ miljöpåverkan både lokalt och globalt är det av allmänt intresse att öka industriernas energieffektivitet. Sett ur industriernas perspektiv är det dessutom viktigt att minska beroendet av bränslen med osäkra priser för att uppnå ekonomisk förutsägbarhet. I den här avhandlingen analyseras energibesparingspotentialen inom massa- och pappersindustrin. Ett fristående kemiskt massabruk och ett integrerat kemiskt massa- och pappersbruk har studerats. Förändringar i energisystemen på bruken analyserades genom kostnadsminimeringar. Avhandlingen fokuserar på principiella energifrågor, som att utvärdera olika sätt att använda industriellt spillvärme, investeringar i elgenerering och val av bränsle. För att hitta synergier optimerades samma system ur olika aktörers perspektiv och sedan ur ett regionalt perspektiv. Även förutsättningarna för en regional värmemarknad analyserades. Avhandlingen visar att användandet av överskottsvärme från massa- och pappersindustrin till fjärrvärme generellt sett inte står i konflikt med processintegreringsåtgärder inom bruken. Detta beror delvis på att stora mängder överskottsvärme finns tillgängliga och delvis på att det är olika temperaturnivåer som behövs till de olika syftena som därför inte konkurrerar. Resultaten visar snarare att de två åtgärderna stärker varandra eftersom processintegrering gör att större mängder varmvatten av högre temperatur blir tillgängliga för fjärrvärme. Det finns dock fall då förutsättningarna kompliceras av redan befintliga tekniska lösningar inom ett system. I dessa fall kan det vara nödvändigt med en kombination av åtgärder. Vidare dras slutsatsen att energisamarbete mellan kommuner och industrier i form av en värmemarknad ger möjlighet till positiva synergier i den studerade regionen. Särskilt lönsamt visade det sig vara att byta från dyra bränslen såsom olja till billigare bränslen som biobränslen. Att utöka kraftvärmekapaciteten inom värmemarknaden är också lönsamt liksom utökat användande av industriell spillvärme till fjärrvärme. De fall som var mest ekonomiskt lönsamma har även störst möjlighet till minskning av CO2-utsläpp; utsläppen från regionen skulle kunna minskas med cirka 700 000 ton CO2/år i dessa fall.

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Arcos, Usero Lucía. "Analysis and improvements of outdoor hot benches in Gävle." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Energisystem, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-24301.

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Five exterior hot benches have been installed in Gävle, in Kyrkogatan street by the company Gävle Energi with the aim of achieving the wellnes of people that sit on them. This system uses the residual heat from the district heating, representing consequently a non-polluting system. However, the temperature desired on the surface, 35°C is not always achieved before different exterior conditions. For this reason, Gävle Energi is interested in carrying out a study about enhancements that could be made in the system in order to take them into account for future projects of this kind of technology. The aim of this project is analysing if it would be possible to achieve the requirements established by Gävle Energi, changing with this objective all the necessary system parameters of the current system such as diameter of the pipes, materials, number of turns... These requirements consist of working with a supply temperature of 40, 45 and 50°C when the exterior conditions are 0, -5 and -10°C respectively, accomplishing always 35°C on the surface. Moreover, in case that it was not possible, providing the company with the characteristics of the system that would make the system as efficient as possible, specifying for different exterior temperatures the mass flow, pressure drop, velocity and needed power. The study has been developed by different simulations with the software COMSOL, whose use requires a high knowledge on heat transfer. After several simulations, it has been checked that it is not possible to accomplish the requirements established by the company. However, a new more efficient design has been designed because the supply temperatures of the system to accomplish an average temperature of around 35°C on the surface have been minimised. For that, several changes have been carried out. The number of pipes turns have been increased from 12 to 17, their total diameter from 20mm to 30mm and the distance between the centres of the pipes from 5.5cm to 4cm. The 2mm of outer plastic thickness of the pipes has been replaced by copper and the height of the pipes has been moved 2cm upwards. With all these changes, the final length of the pipes inner the stones has a value of 40.6m and the supply temperatures reach 46, 47 and 49°C for the 0,-5 and -10°C exterior conditions respectively. Apart from the supply temperatures for the study cases, the ones necessary to accomplish always the temperature desired on the surface for other exterior temperatures have been provided together with the amount of power necessary, velocity flow, volumetric flow and pressure drop for all the different cases. These values would allow the company to work always at the optimum point as well as to design the heat pump for the system.

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Hedin, Tommy. "Utredning av undercentral i Brf. Bogården : En jämförelse mellan en ny och en gammal undercentral." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Energisystem, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-24257.

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Denna uppsats tar sitt avstamp från en gammal rapport vid namn ”Samkörning mellan värmepumpar och fjärrvärme. – Bostadsrättsföreningen Bogården” från 2008. Denna rapport behandlar en undercentral vari det fanns risk för spridning av legionellabakterier. Rapporten från 2008 mynnade ut i åtgärdsförslag som togs i beaktande av Brf. Bogården och insatser genomfördes senare av SWECO i form av en nyprojektering av hela anläggningen. Följden av detta blev att undercentralen 2012 byggdes om helt och hållet och nya styr- och reglerflöden inrättades. I detta arbete presenteras en bred bild av energiläget i världen och i Sverige för att sedan rikta fokus ner till Gävle och undercentralen i Brf. Bogården. I denna studie så genomfördes flertalet observationstillfällen där noteringar gjordes för att se hur anläggningen och dess styr- och reglerflöden tedde sig. Bieffekten av besöken bestod av upptäckter som på ett eller annat sätt påverkade anläggningen i sin helhet. Det som upptäcktes var att undercentralen inte styr och regleras enligt projekteringen, retur- och framledningstemperaturer var för höga och att värmepumparnas drifttider absolut inte var enligt funktionsbeskrivningen. Dessa styr- och reglerfel gör så att Bogården måste köpa in mer fjärrvärme än vad som behövs vilket leder till mer kostnader än nödvändigt. This paper takes its starting point from an old report named ”Samkörning mellan värmepumpar och fjärrvärme. – Bostadsrättsföreningen Bogården” from the year 2008. This report discusses a sub-station where there was a risk of proliferation of legionella bacteria. The 2008 report resulted in action proposals that were taken into account by tenant Bogården and thereafter efforts were implemented by SWECO in the form of a new projection of the entire sub-stationed facility. What happened next was that the sub- center was rebuilt completely in 2012 and a new management control settings were put into use. In this work, a broad picture of the energy situation in the world and in Sweden is presented, and after that the paper shifts focus on Gävle and the sub-center of tenant Bogården. In this study, many observation visits were made and during these notes were made to see how the plant and its control and regulatory flows occurred. The side effect of the visits consisted of discoveries that in one way or another affected the plant. What was discovered was that the sub-central did not control and regulate according to the design, the return and outflow temperatures in the radiator circuit were way too high and the heat pump operating hours were not at all according to the functional description that was provided to aid this report. These controls and regulate errors forces the tenant Bogården to buy more district heating than needed, which leads to more costs than necessary.

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Farahmand, Ghaffarpour Mehdi, and Henrik Ros. "Integration of thermochemical heat storage with a municipal district heating system : In future scenario with large variations in electricity price." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Framtidens energi, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-39775.

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This thesis investigates the feasibility and benefits of integrating Thermochemical heat Storage (THS) into a CHP (Combined Heat and Power) plant. A case study is done for the CHP-plant in Sala, Sweden, with a maximum heat output of 20.9 MW and maximum electricity output of 9.6 MW. The THS type considered is calcium oxide in a hydroxide system. The fluctuations in electricity price for years 2020, 2030 and 2040 are considered and low-price electricity is used as a charging source for THS. During charging the superheated steam (endothermic reaction) is used to cover some of the district heating demand. The high temperature discharge from the THS is used as reheat in the Rankine cycle. The operations are modeled in Ebsilon and optimization is done in MATLAB using genetic algorithm with the objective to achieve maximum annual revenue. The results suggest that it is not feasible to introduce THS with electricity as a charging source in year 2020, but in 2030 and 2040 THS shows promising potential. The biggest increase in revenue comes from reduced fuel consumption, and, to a lesser extent, increased income from electricity. It is concluded that Calcium hydroxide is a promising candidate for integration into CHP during large electricity price fluctuation. The main drivers for the feasibility of this combination are high fuel price and large fluctuations of electricity price.

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Öhlund, Martin. "Ekonomisk Optimering av Systemtemperaturer i Radiatorsystem." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för tillämpad fysik och elektronik, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-176210.

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Systemtemperaturer i värmesystem är en debatterad fråga i Sverige. Vid projektering av ett värmesystem har valet av systemtemperatur en avgörande roll för kostnaden av värmesystemet. Frågan vilka systemtemperaturer i värmesystemen som är det mest ekonomiska är viktig för att värmesystemet ska ha en fördel jämfört med konkurrenterna på marknaden. Historiskt sett har systemtemperaturerna i de svenska värmesystemen varit 80/60 medans idag är den vanligaste temperaturerna 55/45. Under 60-talet stod Östen Sandberg som förespråkare för ett nytänkande värmesystem kallat lågflödesystem (LF). Detta värmesystem använder sig av låga flöden i rörledningarna och stora temperaturskillnader på framledningen och returledningen. Förespråkare av dessa lågflödesystem hävdar att vid rätt användning kan en omjustering av det befintliga värmesystemet från ett högflödesystem (HF) till ett lågflödesystem drastigt reducera energiförbrukningen för fastigheten och samtidigt uppnå acceptabla inomhusförhållanden. Hade ett LFsystem kunnat konkurrera mot ett HFsystem ekonomiskt? För att undersöka detta kommer ett 55/45-HFsystem att användas som ursprungsfall vid jämförelser mellan HFsystem och LFsystem med olika systemtemperaturer för att utreda om ett 55/45-HFsystem är det mest ekonomiska värmesystemet. Studien visar många fördelar med 55/45-HFsystemet. Ett 55/45-HFsystem har relativt låga investeringskostnader vid projekteringen i jämförelse med de andra värmesystemen. En annan fördel är att detta värmesystem är kompatibelt med både fjärrvärme samt bergvärme vilket gör detta system passande som ett standardiserat värmesystem. Det mest ekonomiska värmesystemet är ett 80/60-HFsystem, vilket har lägre investeringskostnader för både radiatorer samt rörkostnader. Förespråkare av LFsystem hävdar att de reducerade flödena medför reducerade elkostnader för cirkulationspumpen vilket i längden gör LFsystemet energisnålare. Denna studie visar att de reducerade flödena och dess påverkan av energiförbrukningen hos cirkulationspumpen är förhållandevis så låga i jämförelse med de totala energiförbrukningen hos värmesystemet att den möjliga vinsten är försumbar. Däremot kan de reducerade flödena minska risken för en snedfördelad värmefördelning i fastigheten. LFsystemens stora nackdel är ökade investeringskostnader jämfört med HFsystemen. The choice of temperatures in heating systems has long been a question for debate in Sweden. For the design engineer, the choice of system temperatures in a heating system has a decisive impact on the cost and in order to stay competitive on the market it is crucial to design the heating system as cost effective as possible. Historically the system temperature in Swedish heating systems has been 80/60 but today we see that the most common temperatures are 55/45. During the 1960´s Östen Sandberg became the leading advocate for a new type of heating system using a low flow principle (LF) for heat distribution. The LF principle requires a larger temperatur difference between the supply and return temperatures for the adequate heating. Advocates of the LF principle claims that large energy savings are possible if an exsisting high flow heating system (HF) undergoes an adjustment to a LF heating system. The question is how accurate is this claim? This article shows many advantages with the nowadays common 55/45-HFsystem. A 55/45-HFsystem has relatively low investment costs in comparison with other types of heating systems. Another advantage is the fact that the 55/45-HFsystem is compatible with both district heating and geothermal heat pump heating systems which makes this radiator system suitable as a standardized system. The most economical radiator system is the 80/60-HFsystem, which has a lower investment cost for both radiators and piping in comparison with a 55/45-HFsystem. The claim that LFsystems and the associated LF principle could result in a reduced energy cost for the heating system was not supported. This article shows that the energy savings that comes from the LF principle is negligible in comparison with the heating systems total energy cost. The LF principle could however reduce the risk of an uneven heating distribution in the building due to a more unpredictable regulation of the flow through the radiators. LFsystem disadvantage is an general overall larger investment cost in comparison with a HFsystem.

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