Challenges in heat network design optimization
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Different stakeholders have different design considerations that shape a heating grid. In short term, theserange from achieving lowest ownership costs to preventing monopolies. In long term, project developersfocus on how uncertainties of design parameters (e.g. demand/supply, heat prices) affect the grid designand, ultimately, the business case. Currently, heat grids are designed through the evaluation of manuallydrafted topologies. Since there are many design options and uncertainties in the parameters, it isinfeasible to evaluate all possibilities, leading to suboptimal designs. In this paper, numerical optimi-zation approaches will be discussed that can assist with the conceptual grid design in a systematicmanner to achieve an improved network topology. It will be explained how uncertainty, for example ofdemands, can be addressed to obtain arobustnetwork design.
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TNO Identifier
876042
Source
Energy, 203(July)
Publisher
Elsevier
Article nr.
117688
Collation
8 p.
Place of publication
Amsterdam
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