FOM4HECONET

The development of a high-fidelity Full-Order Model for district Heating and Cooling NETworks

Developing (fit-for-purpose) modeling methods for the design and control of 5GDH networks.

District heating systems need to be further developed to decrease grid losses and exploit synergies, thereby increasing the efficiencies of production units. Moreover, district heating networks are becoming more complex due to, e.g., the variety of renewable generation systems and/or user demand profiles, lower distribution temperatures, the integration of heat storage for peak shaving, the usage of the network for both heating and cooling, and so forth. These next-generation networks (4GDH and 5GDH) are therefore much more difficult to design and, once in the ground, much more difficult to control compared to the conventional networks (3GDH). Therefore, the following project goals are defined.

You will support decision makers, e.g., local governments, in developing and designing new district heating networks (5GDH).
You will support the district heating operators in optimizing district heating control strategies (5GDH).