Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5476967 | Energy | 2017 | 11 Pages |
Abstract
The optimization results show that the usage of the cheapest resources is preferred to a distributed generation of heat, even if some of the pipes may exceed the recommended thermal load capacity. The main site water supply temperature is found to be the lowest allowed by the constraint on the temperature of the water supplied to the end users, since the decrease of the costs associated with the lower thermal losses in the network is not counterbalanced by the increase of those associated with the pumping power of a larger water mass flow rate.
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Authors
Mattias Vesterlund, Andrea Toffolo, Jan Dahl,