IEA
District Heating and Cooling
including CHP
Research Projects: Completed projects 2002 - 2005 / Annex VII
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 VII, the seventh 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 VII Research Activities [22-pages, 102Kb] can be downloaded, or the summaries of the individual project reports are available from the brief descriptions via the links below. The complete texts of some of the project reports can be downloaded here.


The projects
  

A Comparison of distributed CHP/DH with large-scale CHP/DH

  

Two-step decision and optimisation model for centralised or decentralised
thermal storage in DH&C systems


  

Improvement of operational temperature differences in district heating systems

  

How cellular gases influence insulation properties of district heating pipes
and the competitiveness of district energy

  

Biofouling and Microbiologically Influenced Corrosion in District Heating Networks

  

Dynamic Heat Storage Optimisation and Demand Side Management

  

Strategies to Manage Heat Losses - Technique and Economy