Summary of district heating and cooling project in Moorhead, Minnesota

Technical Report · Sat Sep 01 04:00:00 EDT 1984

OSTI ID:6201263

Kennedy, A S; Reddy, G N

The project proposed was to retrofit the municipal power plant of the Moorhead Public Service Department (PSD) to function as a cogeneration plant providing the heat source for a medium-temperature (225/sup 0/F), hot-water DHC system. Development of the system would proceed in five stages, beginning with service to Moorhead State University and Concordia College in 1984. Expansion to the central business district and other commercial, residential, and industrial areas would proceed in subsequent phases, with the entire system scheduled to be completed in 1989. The thermal capacity of the DHC system proposed for Moorhead could reach 60 to 100 MW/sub t/ in six years. Furthermore, if the city of Fargo, North Dakota, which is located immediately across the Red River, were to join the system, thermal loads could grow to 200 MW/sub t/. Heat supplied from a refuse-fired municipal boiler facility is an attractive option for expanding the system to that scale, but was not considered within the scope of this study. The results of the Moorhead multiphase work program and the present status of project implementation are summarized herein.

• Research Organization: Argonne National Lab., IL (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: W-31109-ENG-38
• OSTI ID: 6201263
• Report Number(s): ANL/CNSV-TM-147; ON: DE85002608
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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