Integrating Decentralized Thermal-Solar Systems in the District Thermal Network

Abstract:

The present paper approaches the premises referring to the typologies and operating regimes that characterize district heating systems and that are necessary to efficiently integrate, in the district heating network, the systems that use solar energy to produce thermal energy in a decentralized way. A set of operating simulations were carried on the targeted thermal system during a whole year, for different hydraulic feed-in connection of the solar system and different operating temperatures of the heating agent in the thermal network, in order to quantitatively and qualitatively evaluate the impact of converting a classical thermal system in a hybrid solar-thermal system.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 656)
• Pages: 242-251
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.656.242
• Online since: October 2014
• Authors: Teodora Melania Şoimoşan*, Raluca Andreea Felseghi, Călin Ovidiu Safirescu, Georgiana Dorina Iacob
• Keywords: District Heating, Heating System, Solar Thermal Energy, Thermal Network

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