District heating/cogeneration application studies for the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. Summary of Twin Cities case study and the St. Paul Project

Technical Report · Tue Feb 01 04:00:00 EST 1983

OSTI ID:6529907

Karnitz, M A; Kolb, J O

A site-specific study was conducted to evaluate the feasibility of a large, cogeneration/district-heating system for US cities. The MInneapolis-St. Paul area was chosen as the site for a case study of a modern hot-water district-heating system. The first phase of the work was a conceptual feasibility study for the entire metropolitan region. The effort concentrated on assessing the heat loads and heat sources that could be connected over a 20-year period. This study phase set the framework for the overall potential for district heating in the region and was the stimulus for the sceond phase, the St. Paul district-heating demonstration project. The St. P District-Heating Development Company is planning to build the first modern hot-water district-heating system in a major US city.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-26
• OSTI ID: 6529907
• Report Number(s): ORNL/TM-6830; ON: DE83008170
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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