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Developing a three-stage heuristic to design geothermal-based district heating systems

Weinand, Jann; Kleinebrahm, Max ORCID iD icon; McKenna, Russell; Mainzer, Kai; Fichtner, Wolf ORCID iD icon

Abstract:

Geothermal plants have been increasingly constructed in recent years to exploit the high geothermal energy potential in Germany in district heating networks at the municipal level. In order to use this potential economically, municipal planners need instruments for designing the district heating network to supply households with the geothermal heat. This paper presents a combinatorial mixed-integer linear optimisation model and a three-stage heuristic to determine the minimum costs for geothermal district heating systems in municipalities. The central innovations are the ability to optimise both the structure of the district heating network and the location of the district heating plant, the consideration of partial heat supply from district heating and the scalability to many larger municipalities. A comparison of optimisation and heuristic for three exemplary municipalities demonstrates the efficiency of the developed heuristic: the optimisation takes between 500% and 10,000,000% more time than the heuristic. The resulting deviations in the calculated total investment for the district heating from the results of the optimisation are in all cases below 5% and in 80% of cases below 0.3%. ... mehr


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DOI: 10.5445/IR/1000090290
Cover der Publikation
Zugehörige Institution(en) am KIT Institut für Industriebetriebslehre und Industrielle Produktion (IIP)
Publikationstyp Forschungsbericht/Preprint
Publikationsjahr 2019
Sprache Englisch
Identifikator ISSN: 2196-7296
urn:nbn:de:swb:90-902906
KITopen-ID: 1000090290
Verlag Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
Umfang 36 S.
Serie Working Paper Series in Production and Energy ; 33
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