An economic study of combined heat and power plants in district heat production [PDF]
Cleaner Engineering and Technology, 2020 Combined heat and power plants are playing an essential role in Finland to reduce carbon dioxide emissions in district heat production. Some of the existing district heat producers need to adopt renewable energy sources to eliminate the use of fossil ...
Hafiz Haq +3 more
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Abandoning peat in a city district heat system with wind power, heat pumps, and heat storage [PDF]
Energy Reports, 2022 The Finnish Government has established the target of carbon-neutrality by 2035. In Finland, district heating (DH) networks in most cities rely on carbon dioxide (CO2) intensive fuels such as coal and domestic peat. This study assesses the decarbonization
Nima Javanshir +3 more
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Energy Policy, 2015 Farmers can use their own agricultural biomass residues for heat production in small-scale systems, enabling synergies between the district heating (DH) sector and agriculture.
Åke Nordberg
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Decentralized Temperature and Storage Volume Control in Multiproducer District Heating [PDF]
IEEE Control Systems Letters, 2023 Modern district heating technologies have a great potential to make the energy sector more flexible and sustainable due to their capabilities to use energy sources of varied nature and to efficiently store energy for subsequent use. Central control tasks
Cucuzzella, M +3 more
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Modeling and passivity properties of multi-producer district heating systems [PDF]
Automatica, 2022 We propose a comprehensive nonlinear ODE-based thermo-hydraulic model of a district heating system featuring several heat producers, consumers and storage devices which are interconnected through a distribution network of meshed topology whose ...
Cucuzzella, Michele +3 more
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Analysis of the Asset Structure of Hungarian District Heat Suppliers, with Special Regard to the Fixed Assets, Based on the Companies’ 2009-2017 Accounts [PDF]
Theory, Methodology, Practice, 2019 Nowadays in Hungary, district heating has 677,000 fee payers in 93 settlements, for the provision of which 89 companies are responsible. There are, however, differences in the ownership background, in the technical structure, in the activities carried ...
Gábor Béla Süveges
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Heat demand model for district heating simulation [PDF]
MATEC Web of Conferences, 2018 Demand for affordable and sustainable energy is growing. Even though the technology of construction and insulation of buildings is continuously improving, heating is still a significant issue for large part of Europe.
Dolinay Viliam +4 more
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Adaptive Control for Flow and Volume Regulation in Multi-Producer District Heating Systems [PDF]
IEEE Control Systems Letters, 2022 Flow and storage volume regulation is essential for the adequate transport and management of energy resources in district heating systems. In this letter, we propose a novel and suitably tailored-decentralized-adaptive control scheme addressing this ...
Cucuzzella, M +8 more
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Control-oriented modeling and passivity analysis of thermal dynamics in a multi-producer district heating system [PDF]
IFAC-PapersOnLine, 2023 Climate change and geopolitics have led to the conception of plans for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and improving the sustainability of existing fossil-based energy systems.
Cucuzzella, Michele +10 more
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Greening of the District Heating Systems—Case Study of Local Systems
Energies, 2022 The integration of renewable energy resources into district heating systems is gaining momentum across Europe, as heat producers are expected to work towards the EU Directive of Efficient District Heating and Cooling to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050.
Artur Wyrwa +6 more
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