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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District Heating Research Trends 2021
For our 6th newsletter we are excited to share a special issue with you. Usually, we focus each issue of this newsletter around one outstanding research paper from the field of district heating. For …
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Control Strategies for Peak Shaving in District Heating Networks
In this issue, we present our summary of the paper Increasing the energy flexibility of existing district heating networks through flow rate variations by Jacopo Vivian et al. from the Department of …
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