Thermoeconomic cost assessment in future district heating networks

Vittorio Verda, Marco Caccin and Albana Kona

Energy, 2016, vol. 117, issue P2, 485-491

Abstract: This paper aims at showing the capabilities of thermoeconomic analysis for solving cost assessments in district heating systems both at user and producer sides. In the near future it is expected that multiple producers are allowed to supply heat to the same district heating network, similarly to what happens in the case of the electric grid. Not only the amount of heat they may produce should be properly accounted, but also its quality, and also the pumping power that is requested to supply a unity of thermal energy to the end-users. Moreover, buildings equipped with low temperature heating system allow better use of the thermal energy vector, thus allowing larger efficiency of thermal plants.

Keywords: District heating; Low temperature; Thermoeconomic analysis; Exergy analysis; Third-party access (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2016.07.016

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