Decentralized surplus feed-in of solar heat into a District Heating Network (DHN) is here addressed. The heat collected from solar panels located on rooftops of DHN connected buildings may either be used locally for domestic hot water and space heating or fed into the D...

Older IoT “smart sensors” create system alerts from threshold rules on reading values. These simple thresholds are not very flexible to changes in the network. Due to the large number of false positives generated, these alerts are often ignored by network operators. Cur...

International audience; The design and optimization of district heating networks is a rather complex task; therefore most of the researchers have been focusing on simulating models allowing performing parametric optimization for proposed architectures. Energy integratio...

District heating networks (DHN) are generally considered as a convenient, economic and environmental-friendly way to supply heat to a large amount of buildings. Some modelling technics are required to consider the dynamic behaviour of district heating network to design ...

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>Adsorption refrigeration systems are able to work with heat sources of temperature starting with 50 °C. The aim of the article is to determine whether in terms of technical and economic issues adsorption refrigeration equipment ...

One subtask of the Annex 60 (Task 2.2) consists in the modeling of district composed by thermal and electric networks. In this contribution, several modeling techniques are investigated to assess the behavior of the thermal part of the district heating network. These mo...

When a district heating network is fed by natural gas boilers (or biomass boilers), the selection of the network temperature level has a slight influence on the boiler efficiency which means that producing at low temperature allows only to decrease the heat losses throu...

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This thesis presents a mathematical optimization model and a methodology for the optimal design of district heating and cooling networks. The various constraints in energy balances, costs and environmental criteria can be considered in order to propose structures of fle...

This paper proposes an economic dispatch method for an integrated heat and electricity system with respect to network constraints. Network constraints are usually nonlinear and can cause severe difficulties for optimization solvers. Particularly, in a heating network, t...