IEA
District Heating and Cooling
including CHP
Research Projects: Completed projects 1993 - 1996 / Annex IV
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 IV, the fourth 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 IV Research Activities [48-pages, 198Kb] 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 IV studies can be downloaded here
The projects
  

Design guide for Integrating District Cooling and CHP
  

Advanced Transmission Fluids
  

Piping Technology
  

Supervision of District Heating Networks
  

Efficient substations and Installations
  

Monitoring and Analysing Temperature Variations in District Heating Systems
  

Managing a hydraulic system in District Heating
  

Review of European and North American water treatment practices