Antonio Forte
Lowering the supply temperature of a District Heating Network through optimal sizing and positioning of Thermal Energy Storages.
Rel. Vittorio Verda, Elisa Guelpa, Martina Capone. Politecnico di Torino, Corso di laurea magistrale in Ingegneria Meccanica, 2021
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Abstract
One amongst the numerous challenges in the field of District Heating (DH) consists of reducing the supply temperature of the water pumped from the central plant into the network. This would be beneficial for several reasons, one of which is the fact that the amount of thermal losses along the pipelines would decrease, thus enhancing the energy efficiency of the network itself. A proper rise in the mass-flow rate injected from the plant should be taken into consideration though, to compensate for the aforementioned temperature reduction, as stated by the First Law of Thermodynamics (FLT). The introduction of Thermal Energy Storages (TES) in specific points of the network – to be filled with hot water during night hours, i.e.
when there is little or even no thermal request – would serve the purpose of partially relieving the increased pumping load when the heating systems are switched on, especially in correspondence of the morning peak of demand
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