Heat Networks Articles
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District Heating: What Are They and How They Drive Energy Efficiency in City Councils
More than 50% of the final useful energy demand in the EU comes from the heating and cooling consumption of buildings. The installation of District Heating in cities and municipalities helps improve their energy efficiency, resulting in energy savings and reduced costs for their inhabitants. If you are thinking of setting up such a core network in your municipality, this article will help you to ...
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Three Turnkey CHP Plants Delivered for Amiens Energies - Case Study
Amiens Energies is the public service delegate for the distribution and production of heat for the city of Amiens. Its purpose is to meet the heating and domestic hot water needs in Amiens. Amiens Energies wanted to extend and interconnect its heating network by adding new production units. Amiens Energies produces heat in the form of hot water from several production facilities. The delivered ...
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Energy Communities: Energy Saving through Local Production and Consumption
The energy transition, supported by growing public awareness of climate change has led to the emergence of energy communities around the world. What are these Communities and what are their Contributions and Benefits? Based on individual self-consumption, these communities have been formed to generate and benefit from the electricity generated locally by collaborating with companies, local ...
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Project - Saidef Incineration Plant, Switzerland
Boiler Water Treatment, Wastewater Treatment SAIDEF SA is a modern waste incineration and recycling Swiss plant producing electricity and steam to supply the district heating networks in the Fribourg area. They use Fineamin products since 2007 for: 50t/h boiler water treatment: FINEAMIN 06 wastewater treatment ...
By Fineamin SA
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Veneto 03 - ZE-50-LT - Boiler Fueled by Wood Prunings / Heat Recovery from Hot-Air-Turbines - Case Study
Plant: 1 x ZE-50-LT Low-Temperature Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) Module, nominal output 50 kWe Nominal output: 50 kWe Application: Mixed - Power generation from biomass (boiler fueled by wood prunings) / Heat recovery (from hot-air-turbines) Location: Province of Venice, Veneto, Italy Manager: Public multiutility company The client who commissioned this plant is one of the largest Italian ...
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University Campus – Cafeteria, Heilbronn, Germany - Case study
A green hill lies between the central campus square and the tall lecture halls. It is divided diagonally and has a terrace for outdoor dining. A curved staircase leads down to the cafeteria, which is also connected to the assembly hall of the university via a tunnel. The actual common visitors' area is in the basement, but nevertheless receives so much daylight that artificial lighting is not ...
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Wood gasification solution for Bio Energy Netherlands
ZeroPoint is the selected EPC contractor for the first wood gasification installation of Bio Energy Netherlands, located in the port of Amsterdam and commissioned at the end of 2018. This commercial wood gasifier is the first of its kind in the Netherlands and uses the technology of the Zero-Point Clean Tech. A conscious choice was made for gasification instead of incineration, because 60-70% ...
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Biogas-fuelled Combined Heat Power Plant Installed at SAS Demeter Energies
SAS Déméter Energies successfully inaugurated its first agricultural biogas plant in early 2018, which processes more than 20,000 tonnes of organic waste per year including manure, slurries and yards. To create value from the 220 Nm3/h of biogas it produces, SAS Déméter Energies chose to install a combined heat and power (CHP) solution, which simultaneously produces ...
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Project Kaunas Combined Heat and Power Plant - Case Study
26 MWh Kaunas, Lithuania 2018 March 24 Main equipment Fuel supply system - overground warehouse with moving platforms Fuel combustion system - Saxlund combustion grate with water-tube steam boiler Additional heat generation equipment - flue gas condensing economizer (FGCE) Flue gas cleaning system - multicyclones Purpose of this power plant – provision of heating to ...
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Project Water-Heating Boiler House Ekopartneris - Case Study
17,5 MW Lithuania, Kaunas 2015 November 18 Main equipment Fuel supply system - grounded warehouse with moving platforms Fuel combustion system - Axis Industries grate furnace Boiler - water heating Additional heat generation equipment - flue gas condensing economizer Flue gas cleaning system - multicyclone and two-stage electrostatic precipitator Purpose of the facility ...
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Built to Last Extreme Conditions - Case Study
Location: Nepal, Artic Circle, Bolivia Clients: UN, Bolivia Police Force, Artic Lodge Company Waste Type: General waste & confiscated drugs Solution(s) Supplied: Bolivia - Mobile i8-55A Nepal - i8-40A Antartica - i8-140 Having supplied the latest incineration technology to diverse places like Mount Everest, Antarctica, Artic Circle and Bolivia we know our machines are tried and tested in ...
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Coal Gasifier & Biomass Gasifier
Syngas analyzer apply in gasifier 1. Coal gasifier The coal gasifier can be divided into four modes by the movement pattern of the coal in the gasifier: fixed bed (moving bed), fluidized bed, entrained bed and molten bed. While it can be summarized to atmospheric and high pressure styles according to the gasification operating pressure. Based on the feeding method, the coal gasifier contains ...
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Clyde Gateway DHIP Project New Development District heat network support - Case Study
LCITP The Low Carbon Infrastructure Transition Programmes aim is to develop initiatives across Scotland that reduce Greenhouse emissions and maximise the potential economic benefits of the sector. Scotland’s decarbonisation program is already held as a leading example of good practice in Europe and with an ambition for the countries power supply to be 100% green by 2020 – the ...
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What 2017 holds for Energy from Waste in the UK
The UK’s EfW industry has enjoyed two decades of stable investment under the public private partnership (PPP)/public finance initiative (PFI) regime. This has led to a reduction in the amount of biodegradable household waste sent to landfill via the construction of local authority-backed EfW plants and contributed to an increase in recycling rates by incorporating facilities that remove ...
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Timing is everything - Getting your heat network plan to work
For affordable housing providers, maintaining heating and hot water supplies to residents is one of the biggest challenges; especially when it comes to frequently involving the care of vulnerable user groups, and routinely gaining access to occupied properties. Although communal heating schemes (featuring shared boiler plant or other more sustainable heat sources) can offer significant ...
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How heat network providers can raise standards with the Heat Trust
Community and district heating specialist Switch2 Energy has published a free guide to help heat network providers to meet the best practice standards of the Heat Trust. The eGuide, titled 'A Heat Supply You Can Trust' is available free to download. It explains how heat suppliers can raise quality and customer service standards to gain membership of the Heat Trust and comply with its voluntary ...
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Free eguide explains latest changes to heat network UK regulations
Community heating specialist Switch2 Energy Limited has published a guide to the latest legislative changes affecting the UK's communal energy and district heating schemes and what they mean for heat suppliers. Important updates to the Heat Network (Metering and Billing) Regulations 2014 have been revealed by the new Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). Simon ...
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Switch2 Energy is shortlisted for trio of awards for excellence in district heating
Switch2 Energy has been shortlisted for a trio of energy industry awards for its smart metering technology that is helping to decarbonise heat networks and cut costs for customers. The company has reached the finals of the Association for Decentralised Energy (ADE) Awards in the Innovation and Customer Engagement categories, and is also shortlisted for Commercial Heating Product of the Year in ...
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What does decarbonising the UK actually mean?
How can we get further up the road to decarbonising the UK, and what can we learn from other countries? When the North Sea gas was found by accident at a water well in the German city of Hamburg in 1911, it is doubtful they knew that the discovery would be the toast of British energy companies in years to come. North Sea gas, extracted from the many oilfields that have been discovered in the ...
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District heating points way forward for energy prepayment revolution
Ofgem, which has called energy prepayment the option of 'last resort', has announced a price cap for customers until the roll-out of smart meters in 2020. But smart metering is already being widely used in the district heating sector, where it is revolutionising prepayment and reducing energy bills. Customer friendly smart meters are fast making prepayment the first choice option for thousands ...
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