Within this paper, the concept of developing a detailed model for an existing district heating system (DHS) is described. The research focusses on the central heating station with multiple different supply units. In the present case, the model is implemented with a close-toreality-control and will be used for testing new control strategies for the DHS. Therefore, a model with both realistic behavior as well as control interfaces similar to the real control is necessary. Within the NATAR research project (Local heating grids with lowered temperature as provider of balancing power), different targets for the improvement of the control will be investigated. One major target is an intelligent linking between the heat and electrical sector to demonstrate the opportunities of heating grids, as the investigated one, to balance the power grid.
In this paper, a modeling approach for comparing two heat-transfer-stations (HTS) is presented. By comparing a usual HTS with a modified HTS, where the return temperature on primary side of the district heating network (DHN) is used for heating the domestic warm water (DWW), it can be shown that utilizing the return flow of the heating positively contributes to a reduction of temperatures within a DHN and in this way saves exergy. The simulation model is implemented in Modelica.
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