[PDF] Planning Analyses For Geothermal District Heating eBook

Author : Alberto Piatti
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 44,29 MB
Release : 1992-09-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780792319689

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Geothermal waters, hot enough to provide direct heating, are available in many parts of the world. Some are exploited already but many more are only now being considered, as planners begin to recognize the environmental benefits of this unfamiliar energy resource. The relative economic benefits are more marginal, however, and a successful scheme requires careful design and optimization. The nature of geothermal resources imposes special conditions which may be unfamiliar to many plant engineers. In addition, many different approaches are possible, depending on the characteristics of the resource and the user and on the operator's requirements. Must the scheme be optimized for energy recovery or for financial return, or is it more important that it should remain profitable over as wide a range of conditions as possible? This book, written by professional plant engineers with first-hand experience, is designed to guide plant engineers through the different options and to help in this optimization process.

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File Size : 28,39 MB
Release : 1979
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Methodology and data bases are described which can provide a comprehensive planning assessment of the potential for geothermal district heating in any US market. This economic systems model encompasses life-cycle costing over a period of rising competitive fuel prices, it addresses the expansion and financing of a district system over time, and it includes an overall optimization of system design. The elemental area for all analyses is the census tract, for which published data allow estimation of residential and commercial heating demands, building retrofit requirements, and competitive fuel consumption and cost. A system type design, an appropriate hot water district piping system, and costing of heat supply is performed for groups of contiguous tracts in any urban market. Groups are aggregated, in decreasing benefit to cost order, to achieve optimal systems. A specific application for Salt Lake City, Utah, is also described.

Author : Gernot Stoeglehner
Publisher : Springer
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 17,79 MB
Release : 2016-04-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3319318705

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This book focuses on spatial planning – an important determinant of energy saving and renewable energy supply. Revealing the key driving forces for spatial development supporting the shift towards energy efficiency and renewable energy supplies, it shows the importance of integrated spatial and energy planning approaches for a timely and sustainable change of energy systems, thus supporting policies of climate protection. As operating within the context of renewable energy sources is becoming a major policy issue at the international, European and national level, spatial dimensions of renewable energy systems as well as challenges, barriers and opportunities in different spatial contexts become more important. This book analyses not only the fundamental system interrelations between resources, technologies and consumption patterns with respect to energy, but also the links to the spatial context, and provides guidelines for researchers as well as practitioners in this new, emerging field. It presents innovative analytical tools to solve real-world problems and discusses the most important fields of action in integrated spatial and energy planning including planning contents, planning visions and principles as well as planning process design and planning methodology.

Author : Tom C. Gardner
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Page : 47 pages
File Size : 33,46 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Geothermal district heating
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As part of our overall program of studying both the conceptual and actual set of institutional structures under which geothermal distribution systems might be formed and operated, the EWLI has also examined the institutional, economic and legal arrangements of presently functioning systems and of those in advanced planning stages. We have done this in an attempt to discover whether an analysis of the most fully developed present systems can in any way produce models on which future geothermal distribution systems might be based. The answer is problematic. ... We have chosen to discuss Boise, Klamath Falls, and Susanville because they are the most thoroughly planned, have reached the most advanced stage, are relatively large and have the longest histories of all the proposed systems. While the experiences of these cities cannot be measured against the ultimate standard of an operating history for a complete system, the formative years have produced an institutional structure for each system, a financial history related to the assumption of front-end costs, and detailed plans for development and management of the resource.

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Page : 784 pages
File Size : 37,13 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Power resources
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Semiannual, with semiannual and annual indexes. References to all scientific and technical literature coming from DOE, its laboratories, energy centers, and contractors. Includes all works deriving from DOE, other related government-sponsored information, and foreign nonnuclear information. Arranged under 39 categories, e.g., Biomedical sciences, basic studies; Biomedical sciences, applied studies; Health and safety; and Fusion energy. Entry gives bibliographical information and abstract. Corporate, author, subject, report number indexes.