Energy consumption and economic analyses of a district heating network

Energy

Volumn 57, Issue , 2013, Pages 149-159

  Pirouti, Marouf ^a   Bagdanavicius, Audrius ^a   Ekanayake, Janaka ^a   Wu, Jianzhong ^a   Jenkins, Nick ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Design; District heating; Economic evaluation; Energy analysis; Operation

Indexed keywords

COSTS; DESIGN; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ENERGY UTILIZATION; OPTIMIZATION;

DISTRICT HEATING NETWORKS; ECONOMIC EVALUATIONS; ENERGY ANALYSIS; INCREASING TEMPERATURES; OPERATION; OPTIMISATION MODELS; SUPPLY TEMPERATURES; TOTAL ENERGY CONSUMPTION;

DISTRICT HEATING;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DESIGN; ENERGY CONSERVATION; HEATING; OPERATIONS TECHNOLOGY; PRESSURE EFFECT; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT;

SOUTH WALES; UNITED KINGDOM; WALES;

EID: 84880700698     PISSN: 03605442     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2013.01.065     Document Type: Article

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