District Heating Network

Potential for district heating networks from waste heat: an assessment tool and its application to sewage treatment plants in the Canton of Zurich

Industrial waste heat is a valuable heat source to provide a decarbonized supply to district heating networks. In particular, sewage water treatment plants are a widely-available source of waste water, which can be used as part of low-temperature …

Verification of PyDHN - a Python library for the thermo-hydraulic simulation of district heating networks - through the DESTEST

Due to the scarce availability of monitoring data and, when available, possible confidentiality issues, inter-model comparisons are a valuable way to verify the consistency of results in simulations of District Heating Networks (DHN). This paper …

DHgeN: Automated Generation of District Heating Network Layouts for Feasibility Studies

District Heating Networks (DHNs) are part of the solutions towards a low-carbon energy transition for space heating, making an efficient use of renewable or waste energy sources. In early-stage planning, their potential is often evaluated at the …

A machine-learning model for the prediction of aggregated building energy demand from pan-European open datasets

Aggregated building energy demand is a useful indicator for urban energy planning. It can be used by planners and decision-makers to identify clusters of high energy demand in a given urban area and efficiently plan, for example, district heating …

A Flexible GIS-based Computational Framework for the Early Design of District Energy Networks

The design of district heating and cooling (DHC) networks is crucial to increase the pooling of energy supply and demand between individual buildings, and thus to reduce the environmental and financial costs of the energy systems. DHC networks are …