Heat grids are a low-CO2 variant for heat supply. Low-temperature heat grids in particular enable the use of environmental and waste heat sources and help with the integration of renewable electricity generation (RE), as heat grids with central heat pumps in combination with CHP plants offer a high degree of flexibility of use in terms of time and promote the necessary sector coupling heat ⇔ electricity. The aim of the project is to develop software that can be used to optimise and simulate the design of the central and decentralised systems of bidirectional low-temperature heat and cold water networks and their mode of operation. This planning tool is intended to reduce the planning complexity for energy suppliers and network operators and increase investment security, so that low-CO2 heating networks become more widespread and the heat transition is accelerated as a result. In this sense, the project serves the promotion goals of innovative products and services for climate protection.
The tool will be validated in practice by two operators of district heating networks. The software tool will consist of three modules (optimisation of plant selection, optimisation of operation, dynamic simulation), which will be developed, tested and validated in four work packages.
The project objective is to produce an executable prototype. The prototype is then to be marketed as a commercial product and used for innovative services using the project's own funds.
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