IEA
District Heating and Cooling
including CHP
Research Projects: Completed projects 1990 - 1993 / Annex III
General
 The IEA's "Programme of Research, Development and Demonstration on District Heating" was established at the end of 1983. The technical areas covered by Annex III, the third three-year phase are listed below.
Downloadable reports

Now available are the summary and full versions of a selection of the programme's reports in PDF format (Read more about PDF format documents and the PDF reader here).

The entire Summary of Annex III Research Activities [46-pages, 162Kb] can be downloaded, or the summaries of the individual project reports are available from the brief descriptions via the links below.

The results of all of the Annex III studies can be downloaded here
The projects
  

District Heating and Cooling R&D Project Review
  

Advanced Transmission Fluids

The environmental benefits of District Heating and Cooling

DETECT, the IEA consequence model

Promotional manual for District Energy Systems
  

Advanced Transmission Fluids

CFC-Free plastic Jacket Pipes for District Heating

District Heating Piping with Plastic Medium Pipes;
         Status of the Development and laying costs

Bends for Plastic Jackets Pipe Systems able to withstand high transverse loads
  

Consumer Heating System Simulation (CHESS)
  

Supervision of District Heating Networks
  

Advanced Transmission Fluids

Advanced Energy Transmission Fluids for District Heating and Cooling

The Design and Operation of Ice-Slurry based District Cooling Systems