Type

NTDH

Short description

NDH utilizing excess heat for residential heating

Location

Familienheimgenossenschaft district in Zürich (FGZ)

Country

Switzerland

End users

25 settlements

Heat source

Ground/Excess heat

Description

Excess heat (data centres and chillers) used to heat network, in summer heat is stored in ground for use in winter; network connected to HPs at substations for SH and DHW

Cooling

Yes

Heat source-network connection

HEX? (ground and excess heat-Missing info)

Booster HP or no for SH

HP

Booster HP, IHEU or DHSU for DHW

HP

TES

2 Vertical ground HEXs (332 boreholes 250 m depth)

Centralized/ Decentralized TES

Centralised

Category

2.4.1.1.1.*

Costs/Price [€] (Investment; Operation; Cost for the consumer)

Investment: 40.383 mil. €; Variable heat price 17 ct./kWh

Tsupply,min [°C] (network)

8

Tsupply,max [°C] (network)

28

Tsupply,min [°C] (at consumer substation)

<30 (new buildings)

Tsupply,max [°C] (at consumer substation)

>70 (existing buildings)

Treturn [°C] (network)

14

SCOP=(reference annual heating demand)/(seasonal electricity consumption for heating) [-]

4.1

Installed capacity [MW]

3.93

Produced heating energy [MWh/year]

80000 (excess heat)

Heating demand [MWh/year]

27000

Network length [km] (if not specified-pipes, trench specified)

1.5

Heat loss [%]

33.75 (calculated from data)

LHD (linear heat density)=(total heat demand)/(length of network) [kWh/m/year]

18000 (calculated from data)

LHPDD (linear heating power demand density)=(installed thermal power capacity)/(network length(pipes)) [kW/m]

2.6

Reference 1

https://pubdb.bfe.admin.ch/de/publication/download/8836

Reference 2

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/c5c5/383cc0ae6b8eff492b4662bcb022bc11e344.pdf

Reference 3

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2017.07.443

Reference 4

https://www.velasolaris.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/konferenzbuch-siges2016.pdf

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