District heating and more-efficient buildings

Conference · Thu Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1981

OSTI ID:5231679

Pine, G D; Karnitz, M A; Broders, M A; Mixon, W R

The fuel consumed to supply the thermal demands in buildings can be reduced by improving the thermal integrity of buildings or by relying on more efficient methods of converting the fuel energy into heat. It is shown that one conversion option, district heating with cogeneration, requires about the same amount of capital investment per unit of energy saved as required by single-building conservation measures. District heating also offers additional benefits from substitution of more plentiful fuels for oil and gas and improved local air quality in a community. District heating and building efficiency improvements are not mutually exclusive, however, and this analysis indicates that the life cycle cost is minimized when buildings are improved and a district heating system is built.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-26
• OSTI ID: 5231679
• Report Number(s): CONF-810808-10; ON: DE81025437
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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BUILDINGS
CENTRAL HEATING PLANTS
COGENERATION
CONSTRUCTION
CONVERSION
CORRELATIONS
COST
DEUS
DISTRICT HEATING
ECONOMICS
EFFICIENCY
ENERGY EFFICIENCY
ENERGY SYSTEMS
HEATING
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INVESTMENT
LIFE-CYCLE COST
POWER GENERATION
STEAM GENERATION
WASTE HEAT UTILIZATION
WASTE PRODUCT UTILIZATION
WEATHERIZATION