Understanding effective width for district heating

Sánchez-García, Luis; Averfalk, Helge; Möllerström, Erik; Persson, Urban

doi:10.1016/j.energy.2023.127427

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“…2) Development of an additional option to generate the house connections between the main heat pipes and the heat consumers. 3) Enhancement of the model to perform the first cost-effective analysis on the basis of line density and effective width for district heating (example procedure in [21]) Implementation of the model to fully automatically generate the potential DH networks at different spatial levels.…”

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Least-Cost-Path and Closest Facility Analysis for Generating District Heating Networks on a Communal Level

Strzałka,

Malicki,

Blachowski

2023

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Due to an urgent need for reducing the fast progressing climate changes, a rapid, standardized and replicable solution for the infrastructure restructuring of heat demand coverage of buildings at district and city level must be developed. As more and more communities in Europe, especially in Germany, are obligated to have plans for coverage of heat demand, city planners, energy agencies seek a tool, which will help them to design the first drafts of heating network routes, which can supply whole districts and cities with renewable energy. ArcGIS Pro Tools like Least-Cost-Path-Analysis (LCPA) and Closest Facility (CF) allow to find the shortest and “cheapest” way between the heat source and heat consumers in the analyzed areas. Starting from the community level, through the district, county, voivodeship and whole country levels, the replication of the methods for generating district heating (DH) network infrastructure can be achieved. The proposed LCPA and CF based methods help to design the most suitable and efficient DH networks in the analyzed areas. As only few open-source data input, like street networks and building footprints are needed, the methods can be implemented in all communities of the country of Poland. In this paper one example of one community of Wroclaw county, called Siechnice and surroundings is presented.

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Least-Cost-Path and Closest Facility Analysis for Generating District Heating Networks on a Communal Level

Strzałka,

Malicki,

Blachowski

2023

Preprint

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“…This approach uses the effective width concept to derive the linear heat density from the heat density analytically based on an empirical correlation. It was first introduced by Persson and Werner, 2011 [2], refined by Persson et al, 2019 and2021 [10, 11], as well as analysed in a parameter study in García et al, 2023 [12]. It was applied with different parameters and compared to a more data-intensive optimization method on the city-level for Vienna and Brasov, as well as applied for EU-27 in Fallahnejad et al, 2018Fallahnejad et al, , 2021Fallahnejad et al, and 2024.…”

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Identifying future district heating potentials in Germany: a study using empirical insights and distribution cost analysis

Manz,

Fleiter,

Billerbeck

et al. 2024

IJSEPM

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District heating will play an important role in the transition towards climate-neutral heating. Various studies on modelling the energy system show that district heating and the related expansion of the networks can have different levels of importance. A main reason is that the costs for distribution grid expansion are not well or not at all considered and empirical evidence for a threshold for cost-effective distribution costs is missing in such studies. In this paper, we aim to improve empirical evidence allowing to improve the representation of future district heating expansion in energy systems models. For that, the current status of district heating is analysed in high spatial resolution for Germany. The results show that with the currently accepted average costs, a large range of the possible future market share of district heating for buildings between 17 - 52% is possible by 2050, with the parameters of the connection rate and the renovation rate of the building stock. We conclude that the district heating share could be increased by the factor of 2 to 5 in the future, proving the importance of climate-neutral district heating in the transition.

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Feasibility of district heating in a mild climate: A comparison of warm and cold temperature networks in Bilbao

Sánchez-García,

Averfalk,

Hermoso-Martínez

et al. 2025

Applied Energy

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Understanding effective width for district heating

Cited by 8 publications

References 25 publications

Least-Cost-Path and Closest Facility Analysis for Generating District Heating Networks on a Communal Level

Least-Cost-Path and Closest Facility Analysis for Generating District Heating Networks on a Communal Level

Identifying future district heating potentials in Germany: a study using empirical insights and distribution cost analysis

Feasibility of district heating in a mild climate: A comparison of warm and cold temperature networks in Bilbao

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