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Optimization and Multicriteria Evaluation of District Heat Production and Storage

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Climate change mitigation policy requires reducing dependence on fossil fuels and transition to low carbon energy production in district heating (DH). We study here inclusion of two kinds of renewable energy to a CHP based DH system in Finland: solar heat and ground source heat. In addition, we apply heat storages to balance the gap between production and fluctuating demand. The optimal operation of the extended systems is determined by a simulation and optimization model to minimize the operating costs. We evaluate the different possible extensions in terms of multiple economic, technical and environmental criteria using Stochastic Multicriteria Acceptability Analysis (SMAA). The results show that under Finnish conditions, ground source heat is more favourable than solar heat for DH.

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Aalto University School of Engineering, Otakaari 4, 02015, Aalto, Finland

    Risto Lahdelma, Genku Kayo & Elnaz Abdollahi

  2. Department of Mathematics and Systems Analysis, Aalto University School of Science, Otakaari 1, 02015, Aalto, Finland

    Risto Lahdelma

  3. School of Architecture and the Built Environment, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Brinellvägen 23, 10044, Stockholm, Sweden

    Genku Kayo

  4. School of Business and Economics, University of Jyväskylä, P.O. Box 35, 40014, Jyväskylä, Finland

    Pekka Salminen

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Lahdelma, R., Kayo, G., Abdollahi, E., Salminen, P. (2019). Optimization and Multicriteria Evaluation of District Heat Production and Storage. In: Doumpos, M., Figueira, J., Greco, S., Zopounidis, C. (eds) New Perspectives in Multiple Criteria Decision Making. Multiple Criteria Decision Making. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11482-4_15

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