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The heat load in district heating systems

This thesis considers the composition of the daily heat load in six Swedish district heating systems supplying heat for space heating and hot water supply. The analysis was performed by bringing together a heat load model and series of daily heat load observations covering periods ranging from five to eleven years. The influences of transient heat transmission, solar gain, and wind infiltration are found to be significant but small. It is shown that a natural self control of water radiators affects the magnitude of these influences when the control systems are incomplete. The annual fraction of each heat load component, the composition of the heat load duration graph, and the long term changes in heat consumption are presented. Furthermore, the heat load composition estimated facilitates future heat load simulations in order to quantify the outcome of various energy conservation measures with respect to reductions in design heat load and annual heat demand.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:hh-24116
Date January 1984
CreatorsWerner, Sven
PublisherChalmers University of Technology, Göteborg : Chalmers tekniska högskola
Source SetsDiVA Archive at Upsalla University
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeDoctoral thesis, monograph, info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis, text
Formatapplication/pdf
Rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
RelationDoktorsavhandlingar vid Chalmers tekniska högskola, 0346-718X ; 496

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