SMART DISTRICT HEATING SYSTEMS AND INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT ANALYSIS OF GREENHOUSE GASES EMISSIONS
Research group deals with developing new technical solutions for the transition of district heating (DH) systems towards an intelligent, highly efficient and regenerative energy supply concept and with integrated assessment analysis of greenhouse gases emissions. The main research topics are related to transition and improvement measures for existing and technical solutions for planned district heating systems.
Recent research activities are connected with the analysis of:
- Existing large-scale DH system transition towards 4th generation DH
- Thermal energy storage coupling with biomass CHP
- Low temperature DH networks
- Large heat pumps integration into DH systems
- Power plant operation strategy integrating accumulator tank
- Development plans for DH regions
- GIS based optimisation of district heating networks
- Sustainable district heating promotion mobile app NutiSoojus
- Parallel consumption impact on district heating
- Optimisation of district heating networks
- Calculation of primary energy factors for district heating and cooling
- Planning of district heating regions
- Return temperature reduction impact on high temperature district heating system
- Low temperature district heating network’s (LTDHN) heat supply option from the return line of a well-established high temperature district heating system
Head of the research group:
Tenured Full Professor
Anna Volkova, PhD.
Phone: 620 3905
anna.volkova@taltech.ee
