An optimization approach for district heating strategic network design

Chiara Bordin, Angelo Gordini and Daniele Vigo

European Journal of Operational Research, 2016, vol. 252, issue 1, 296-307

Abstract: District heating systems provide the heat generated in a centralized location to a set of users for their residential and commercial heating requirements. Heat distribution is generally obtained by using hot water or steam flowing through a closed network of insulated pipes and heat exchange stations at the users’ locations. The use of optimization techniques for the strategic design of such networks is strongly motivated by the high cost of the required infrastructures but is particularly challenging because of the technical characteristics and the size of the real world applications.

Keywords: Linear programming; District heating; Optimization; Energy; Graph theory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2015.12.049

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