Targeting capital cost of excess heat collection systems in complex industrial sites for district heating applications
Journal article, 2015
The objective of this study is to develop a methodology for estimating the investment costs for heat collection systems gathering excess heat from complex industrial sites and delivering it to a DH (district heating) network. The paper presents a case study conducted on Sweden's largest chemical cluster. In a previous paper, the economic feasibility of delivering heat from the cluster to a regional DH system proved to be favorable under a wide range of price conditions. We develop the methodology used previously in order to identify how each of the plants should contribute to the heat delivery in order to achieve the lowest total investment cost within the cluster. The optimization problem is formulated with the constraint that each plant delivers heat to the DH network separately and at the temperature required by the network. Investments for heat collection systems were estimated for the current configuration of the cluster's energy system (Base case) and for two possible future configurations with increased levels of internal heat recovery. The resulting optimal contribution mix provides a detailed overview of how the plants compete at different specified levels of DH delivery. In the Base case, two plants strongly compete due to similar investment costs. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Communication from the Commission
Thermodynamics
2011
A resource-efficient Europe - flagship initiative under the Europe 2020 strategy
waste
(European Commission)
Communication from the commission
(European Commission)
Energy & Fuels
Heat collection systems
Europe 2020. A strategy for smart
Industrial excess heat
Pinch analysis
pinch technology
energy
2010
sustainable and inclusive growth
District heating
Heat recovery
Author
Lina J Eriksson
Chalmers, Energy and Environment, Industrial Energy Systems and Technologies
Matteo Morandin
Chalmers, Energy and Environment, Industrial Energy Systems and Technologies
Simon Harvey
Chalmers, Energy and Environment, Industrial Energy Systems and Technologies
Energy
0360-5442 (ISSN)
Vol. 91 465-478Subject Categories
Energy Engineering
Areas of Advance
Energy
DOI
10.1016/j.energy.2015.08.071