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District Heating

District heating is a system for generating heat at a central location and distributing heat for space heating and hot water to residential and commercial properties. District heating plants can provide higher efficiencies and lower carbon emissions than local boilers, especially if based on Interseasonal Heat Transfer.

Interseasonal Heat Transfer™ has many advantages for district heating. IHT can ensure that building groups have a reliable, independent and sustainable source of Renewable Heating and Renewable Cooling.

District Heating based on Interseasonal Heat Transfer can ...

• provide a reliable and low-cost green energy source for space heating and cooling
• save over 50% on carbon emissions on heating compared to emissions from gas boilers
• save over 80% on carbon emissions on cooling buildings compared to emissions (from the power stations) that power electric air conditioning and electric chillers
• provide a low-cost heat energy (or cooling) source for industrial processes
• provide opportunities for reducing carbon emissions by re-cycling solar energy instead of burning fossil fuels
• provide the opportunity to recover heat from buildings with high occupancy and high passive heat gains and transfer it to buildings needing heat

Groups of Buildings

IHT is very well suited to providing District Heating to groups of houses. The cost of providing an efficient installation can be shared across a number of houses, and the benefits increase if the district heating system includes other buildings such as schools or offices whose heating and cooling requirements may follow a different daily pattern (and different weekly pattern) from the heating demand for houses. Where the district covers offices, or data centres, the heat recovered from cooling these buildings can be transferred to homes requiring heating (or other buildings with a heating need such as a community swimming pool). Where the cooling demand is separated in time from the heating demand, surplus heat can be stored in ThermalBanks from the time it is available to the time it is needed. This efficient use of heat is at the heart of Interseasonal Heat Transfer and enables ICAX to provide cheaper heating and cheaper cooling than conventional methods, as well as proving heating and cooling with a very low carbon footprint.

Even in a group of similar houses there will be variations in the heating requirements between houses: some houses will be unoccupied during the working day, others with small children, or pensioners, may have higher heating loads during the day. IHT can meet these variations in demand successfully – and meter the use of heating in different buildings.

The combined benefits make Interseasonal Heat Transfer an attractive option for offices, schools and universities, hospitals, community centres, urban and suburban housing developments, industrial developments and private houses aiming for low energy use based on solar power.

Energy Hub - sharing warmth feels good

District Heating using Interseasonal Heat Transfer combines the benefits of on-site renewable energy with sharing heating loads between neighbours.

 

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