Risks and opportunities for bottleneck measures in Swedish district heating networks

• Heat supply bottlenecks are common in district heating (DH) networks and makes the DH network work in a non-optimal way, why it is beneficial to address them. The purpose of this paper is thus to investigate risks, opportunities, added values and issues coupled to various bottleneck measures. This is made by in depth interviews with DH companies and through DH network simulations. The results showed numerous risks and opportunities coupled to each bottleneck measure investigated, and are meant to highlight more effective measures, to help increase the competitiveness of and improve the environmental performance of DH.

Ämnesord

TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER  -- Naturresursteknik -- Energisystem (hsv//swe)

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY  -- Environmental Engineering -- Energy Systems (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

Bottlenecks

Demand side management

District heating development

Local heat supply

Opimization

Pipe area

Pump

Substations

Supply temperature

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