| Handbook
on Planning of District Heating Networks
The
working group of QM District Heating prepared a Handbook
on Planning of District Heating Networks in German in
spring 2017, which was translated into French in autumn
2018 and into English in August 2020. The handbook is
available as free pdf download in all three languages.
The English version can be downloaded here:
Handbook
on Planning of District Heating Networks (12 MB)
Questionnaire
The questionnaire for a district heating connection
can be used as a template and is available as an open,
two-page Word document (Questionnaire
0.25 MB).
Among other things, the questionnaire can be used to
collect data on the needs, the technical situation of
the house system (secondary side) and the possible time
of connection of a potential heat customer.
Checklists
The checklists for the project procedure when planning
district heating networks can be used as templates and
are available as an open, five-page Word document (Checklist
0.35 MB).
The checklists are based on the planning procedure of
the Swiss guideline SIA 108. For application in other
countries, the corresponding laws and standards of the
respective country must be applied
Excess consumption
Based on chapter 10 Analysis and optimisation of heat
consumers, the Excel-based calculation tool Excess consumption
(Mehrverbrauch
0.17 MB) offers a simple possibility to evaluate
the quality of heat transfer in the district heating
transfer station of the heat consumers in a district
heating network.
Documents and
tools, which are currently only available in German:
Software THENA
THENA (Thermal Network Analysis) is an Excel-based calculation
tool and is used for simple technical analysis of the
network design and a supplementary rough cost estimate
of the heat distribution network.
A demo beta version is freely available and can be downloaded.
A manual based on the full version is available for
download.
Evaluation
of district heating transfer station
The evaluation tool is used to compare the services
offered by different suppliers of district heating transfer
stations. The evaluation tool can be adapted to your
own needs.
Sensitivity
and efficiency
With the Excel-based calculation tool, the sensitivity
of different parameters to the costs of heat distribution
for nominal diameters from DN 20 to DN 250 can be easily
calculated and graphically displayed.
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