Integration of storage and renewable energy into district heating systems: a review of modelling and optimization
The building and infrastructure sector is accountable for 46% of the total worldwide energy consumption. Most traditional energy sources such as coal or petroleum are among the non-renewable types and most likely to be depleted in the forthcoming decades. To address the current energy crisis, use of...
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| author | Olsthoorn, Dave Haghighat, Fariborz Mirzaei, Parham A. |
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| description | The building and infrastructure sector is accountable for 46% of the total worldwide energy consumption. Most traditional energy sources such as coal or petroleum are among the non-renewable types and most likely to be depleted in the forthcoming decades. To address the current energy crisis, use of renewable energy such as solar sources and a considerable increase in energy efficiency are proposed as the potential solutions. District heating systems (DHS), in particular, has recently received more attention due to several advantages in energy production, distribution and consumption for the space heating.
This paper reviews the recent advancements in the energy production, modelling and optimization of the DHSs. A classification of energy sources is presented in terms of their sustainability and ease of integration to a DHS. Current modelling methods are further compared with respect to computational limitations, level of precision as well as the degree of certainty in the output level. Moreover, the recent studies of DHS are classified in accordance with the optimization objectives, including energy/exergy efficiency, cost, exergo-economic/thermo-economic and green-house gas (GHG) and pollutant production. |
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| spelling | nottingham-371332020-05-04T18:17:00Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/37133/ Integration of storage and renewable energy into district heating systems: a review of modelling and optimization Olsthoorn, Dave Haghighat, Fariborz Mirzaei, Parham A. The building and infrastructure sector is accountable for 46% of the total worldwide energy consumption. Most traditional energy sources such as coal or petroleum are among the non-renewable types and most likely to be depleted in the forthcoming decades. To address the current energy crisis, use of renewable energy such as solar sources and a considerable increase in energy efficiency are proposed as the potential solutions. District heating systems (DHS), in particular, has recently received more attention due to several advantages in energy production, distribution and consumption for the space heating. This paper reviews the recent advancements in the energy production, modelling and optimization of the DHSs. A classification of energy sources is presented in terms of their sustainability and ease of integration to a DHS. Current modelling methods are further compared with respect to computational limitations, level of precision as well as the degree of certainty in the output level. Moreover, the recent studies of DHS are classified in accordance with the optimization objectives, including energy/exergy efficiency, cost, exergo-economic/thermo-economic and green-house gas (GHG) and pollutant production. Elsevier 2016-10-15 Article PeerReviewed Olsthoorn, Dave, Haghighat, Fariborz and Mirzaei, Parham A. (2016) Integration of storage and renewable energy into district heating systems: a review of modelling and optimization. Solar Energy, 136 . pp. 49-64. ISSN 1471-1257 District heating; Optimization; Energy; Renewable; Sustainability; Modelling http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0038092X16302353 doi:10.1016/j.solener.2016.06.054 doi:10.1016/j.solener.2016.06.054 |
| spellingShingle | District heating; Optimization; Energy; Renewable; Sustainability; Modelling Olsthoorn, Dave Haghighat, Fariborz Mirzaei, Parham A. Integration of storage and renewable energy into district heating systems: a review of modelling and optimization |
| title | Integration of storage and renewable energy into district heating systems: a review of modelling and optimization |
| title_full | Integration of storage and renewable energy into district heating systems: a review of modelling and optimization |
| title_fullStr | Integration of storage and renewable energy into district heating systems: a review of modelling and optimization |
| title_full_unstemmed | Integration of storage and renewable energy into district heating systems: a review of modelling and optimization |
| title_short | Integration of storage and renewable energy into district heating systems: a review of modelling and optimization |
| title_sort | integration of storage and renewable energy into district heating systems: a review of modelling and optimization |
| topic | District heating; Optimization; Energy; Renewable; Sustainability; Modelling |
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