Overview of a German Federal Funding for Efficient District Heating Networks
At the beginning of the new year, we would like to make an exception and not present a scientific paper. In this issue of our newsletter, we instead focus on the draft "Bundesförderung für effiziente…
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Optimal Temperature Control for 5th Generation DHC
While it's clear that low network temperatures are the key to efficient 5th Generation District Heating and Cooling networks, it's less clear at which exact temperatures a given network will achieve …
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Clustering Energy Systems for District Heating in Germany
One key to increase the share of renewable energies in the heating sector is district heating. The focus is on both new efficient district heating networks and the transformation of existing ones. Di…
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Best-Practice Buildings for Low District Heating Return Temperatures
Low return temperatures are a key objective to enable an efficient operation of district heating networks and especially for the transition towards 4th Generation District Heating (4GDH). On the one …
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Identifying Green Heat Sources for District Heating
In this issue, we present the paper High-resolution mapping of the clean heat sources for district heating in Stockholm City by Chang Su et al. from the Department of Energy Technology at KTH Royal I…
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Overview of Demand Side Management in District Heating
For this 10th issue of our newsletter we selected the paper Demand response and other demand side management techniques for district heating: A review by Elisa Guelpa and Vittorio Verda at Politecnic…
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4th or 5th Generation District Heating - That is the Question
District heating networks are classified into different generations. Until now, the generations 1 - 4 existed in the literature. In recent publications, the term 5th generation district heating and c…
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Economic Evaluation of 4th Generation District Heating Networks
For this issue 8 of our newsletter, we have selected the paper Economic benefits of fourth generation district heating by Helge Averfalk and Sven Werner at Halmstad University in Sweden. For this stu…
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Thermal Storages in District Heating Networks
This issue of our newsletter presents the article Influence of centralized and distributed thermal energy storage on district heating network design by Joseph Maria Jebamalai et. al. from the Departm…
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