IEA
District Heating and Cooling
including CHP
Research Projects: Completed projects 1996 - 1999 / Annex V
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 V, the fifth 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 V Research Activities [48-pages, 229Kb] 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 V studies can be downloaded here.

The projects
  

Optimisation of District Heating Operating Temperatures and an Appraisal of the Benefits of Low Temperature District Heating

  

Combined heating and cooling; balancing the production and demand in CHP
  

Cost effective District Heating networks

  

Fatigue analysis of District Heating systems
  

DH&C in future buildings
  

Handbook on Plastic Pipe Systems for District Heating