District heating is a rational way to use fossil fuels for domestic heating (and cooling) in towns, especially if it is joined to a cogenerative production of electricity. The aim of this paper is to propose the use of exergoeconomic procedures for the design and analysis of district heating systems. Network design basically involves the selection of the areas to be connected to the network as well as the selection of some design variables as the pipe diameters, the location of pumps etc. This choice is operated assuming primary energy consumption as the objective function to be minimized. The application of these concepts is operated through a probabilistic approach derived from Simulated Annealing. An application to the Turin district heating system is presented here. The system is composed of a cogenerative combined cycle, some auxiliary boilers and the pipe network. An exergetic cost is associated to each user or potential user. This information is used to evaluate the opportunities for future expansions of the served area as well as the variation in some of the operating parameters.
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ASME 2009 3rd International Conference on Energy Sustainability collocated with the Heat Transfer and InterPACK09 Conferences
July 19–23, 2009
San Francisco, California, USA
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- Advanced Energy Systems Division and Solar Energy Division
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978-0-7918-4889-0
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Vittorio Verda,
Vittorio Verda
Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy
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Serena Fausone
Serena Fausone
Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy
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Vittorio Verda
Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy
Serena Fausone
Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy
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ES2009-90351, pp. 377-383; 7 pages
Published Online:
September 29, 2010
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Verda, V, & Fausone, S. "Exergoeconomic Analysis of District Heating Systems." Proceedings of the ASME 2009 3rd International Conference on Energy Sustainability collocated with the Heat Transfer and InterPACK09 Conferences. ASME 2009 3rd International Conference on Energy Sustainability, Volume 1. San Francisco, California, USA. July 19–23, 2009. pp. 377-383. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/ES2009-90351
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