European best practises for district heating

District Heating in Buildings

This paper is published by Euroheat & Power. Our aim is to inform about district heating and cooling as efficient and environmentally benign energy solutions that make use of resources that otherwise would be wasted, delivering reliable and comfortable heating and cooling in return.

Multi-Agent Systems for District Heating Management.book

i 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 ...

District Heating Networks Calculation and Optimization

The first step in studying the behavior of a pipe network is to identify the objectives that must be attained and the physical and logical problems that must be solved; this aim can be achieved by building a suitable model of the network. The next step must be the operation of the model (which, for example, in the case of numerical models consists of using an appropriate algorithmic procedure) ...

Numerical modelling of district heating networks

Efficient Physical Modelling of District Heating Networks

A mathematical physical model for dynamic simulation of flow and temperature in district heating networks (DHN) is proposed. The network structure is described by means of a graph-theoretical approach where the network elements are pipe sections, consumers and heat sources. The governing equations for hydraulic flows and heat distribution through pipe networks are presented. In addition, proper...