Type

NTDH

Short description

NTDH utilizing ground water for heating apartments, hotel etc.

Location

Oberwald/Obergoms

Country

Switzerland

End users

209 apartments, 1 hotel and other public buildings

Heat source

Ground water

Description

Exploits a Geostructure (the “Furkatunnel”) as a thermal source at 16 °C through which runs hot water which is distributed to HPs at substations for SH and DHW

Cooling

Missing info

Heat source-network connection

Ground water runs through the network

Booster HP or no for SH

HP

Booster HP, IHEU or DHSU for DHW

HP

Category

1.4.1.2.1.

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

Investment: 1.31 mil. €

Tsource [°C]

15.5

Tsupply,min [°C] (network)

15

Tsupply,max [°C] (network)

16

Installed capacity [MW]

1.337

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

2.2

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

0.6

Reference 1

https://www.enalpin.com/newsletter/files36/newsletter-nr.1-2016.pdf

Reference 2

http://www.energieregiongoms.ch/index.php/projekte/item/20-warmwasser-aus-dem-furkatunnel

Reference 3

https://www.anog.ch/news/infoveranstaltungen/informationsveranstaltunganog.pdf

Reference 4

https://pangea.stanford.edu/ERE/db/WGC/papers/WGC/2015/01062.pdf

Reference 5

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2018.12.059

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