Application of thermohydraulic dispatcher in low temperature district heating systems for decreasing heat carrier transportation energy cost and increasing reliability of heat supply

Abstract

Low pressure district heating systems have low breakdown rate and allow decreasing heat carrier transportation energy cost by means of avoiding throttling of available water head. One of the basic elements of such systems is thermohydraulic dispatcher (THD) which separates primary circuit and secondary circuit (or circuits) that allows avoiding mutual hydraulic influence of circuits on each other and reducing water heads of network pumps. Analysis of perspective ways of using thermohydraulic dispatcher (THD) in low temperature district heating systems is made in this paper. Principal scheme and mathematical model of low pressure and temperature district heating system based on CHP generation with THD are considered. The main advantages of such systems are pointed out.