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Hydraulic performance of a new district heating systems with distributed variable speed pumps
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In this article, a hydraulic model was developed to simulate the hydraulic performance of a distributed variable speed pumps (DVSP) system, based on Kirchhoff's laws, applied to a real district heating (DH) network in Kuerle, China.About:
This article is published in Applied Energy.The article was published on 2013-12-01. It has received 77 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Circulating pump.read more
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District heating and cooling: Review of technology and potential enhancements
Behnaz Rezaie,Marc A. Rosen +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a review of district heating and cooling considers technical, economic, and environmental aspects and helps identify possibilities for future study on district energy systems, which is a major factor in the justification for any project, from industrial, governmental and societal perspectives.
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District heating and cooling optimization and enhancement – towards integration of renewables, storage and smart grid
Yu Li,Yacine Rezgui,Hanxing Zhu +2 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a comprehensive review of district heating and cooling (DHC) systems with a view to promote integration of smart grids, energy storage and increased share of renewable energy.
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Thermal performance of a steady state physical pipe model for simulating district heating grids with variable flow
TL;DR: In this article, a pipe model is constructed using a steady state heat transfer model combined with a variable transport delay model, and the resulting model (i.e. the SS-VTD model) is validated experimentally using measured data from a district energy grid located in Saanich, Canada.
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District heating in sequential energy supply
Urban Persson,Sven Werner +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the potential of excess heat recovery from thermal power generation and industrial processes has great potential to reduce primary energy demands in EU27, and the main conclusion from this study is that a future fourfold increase of current EU27 excess heat utilisation by means of district heat distribution to residential and service sectors is conceived as plausible if applying best Member State practice.
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Optimal operation of large district heating networks through fast fluid-dynamic simulation
TL;DR: In this article, a reduced model based on Proper Orthogonal Decomposition combined with Radial basis functions (POD-RBF) is proposed for district heating networks.
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District heating and cooling: Review of technology and potential enhancements
Behnaz Rezaie,Marc A. Rosen +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a review of district heating and cooling considers technical, economic, and environmental aspects and helps identify possibilities for future study on district energy systems, which is a major factor in the justification for any project, from industrial, governmental and societal perspectives.
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Heat distribution and the future competitiveness of district heating
Urban Persson,Sven Werner +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the competitiveness of present and future district heating systems can be at risk when residential and service sector heat demands are expected to decrease in the future, and the future competitiveness of district heating system can be evaluated.
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Operational optimization in a district heating system
TL;DR: In this paper, the problem of optimal supply temperatures in a district heating (DH) network is formulated as a mathematical model which incorporates the consumers, the district heating network and the production plant; the objective is to minimize the operational costs.
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Improved district heating substation efficiency with a new control strategy
TL;DR: In this article, a new alternative control approach for indirectly connected district heating substations is described, which considers the primary supply temperature of the water supplying the district heating substation with heat.