Targeting capital cost of excess heat collection systems in complex industrial sites for district heating applications

Lina Eriksson, Matteo Morandin and Simon Harvey

Energy, 2015, vol. 91, issue C, 465-478

Abstract: The objective of this study is to develop a methodology for estimating the investment costs for heat collection systems gathering excess heat from complex industrial sites and delivering it to a DH (district heating) network. The paper presents a case study conducted on Sweden's largest chemical cluster. In a previous paper, the economic feasibility of delivering heat from the cluster to a regional DH system proved to be favorable under a wide range of price conditions. We develop the methodology used previously in order to identify how each of the plants should contribute to the heat delivery in order to achieve the lowest total investment cost within the cluster. The optimization problem is formulated with the constraint that each plant delivers heat to the DH network separately and at the temperature required by the network.

Keywords: Industrial excess heat; Pinch analysis; Heat collection systems; Heat recovery; District heating (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2015.08.071

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