The Department of Energy District Heating and Cooling program: A decade (1982--1992) of accomplishments

Technical Report · Tue Dec 01 00:00:00 EST 1992

OSTI ID:6587232

District Heating and Cooling (DHC) systems have evolved over an extended period of time within a complex economic, political, social and technical community. Developers and customers from the public and private sectors have worked together, often in fragmented and piecemeal efforts, to develop new or improve old district heating and cooling systems. The US Department of Energy (DOE) works in partnership with industry and the utility sector to develop technological improvements for DHC systems. DOE also works with the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), other federal agencies, state and local governments, universities, private industry, professional societies, trade as associations, and individuals to increase the market adoption rate of energy-efficient and cost-effective DHC systems. The current status report of activities includes on of projects such as the ice slurries field test effort to be completed in 1995/1996, planned by Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) in conjunction with Northern States Power and EPRI; and cost- studies in eight cities for detailed engineering and design of cooling systems scheduled to be completed in September, 1993. Several projects which are currently ongoing are: the DHC market potential estimation study that is being developed by ANL, the DHC/C study conducted by ORNL, and the DHC feasibility assessments to be performed in conjunction with the Georgia Tech University in connection with the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta.

• Research Organization: BNF Technologies, Inc., Alexandria, VA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC01-91CE35038
• OSTI ID: 6587232
• Report Number(s): DOE/CE-0389T; ON: DE93011402
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION
29 ENERGY PLANNING
POLICY AND ECONOMY
DISTRICT HEATING
PROGRAM MANAGEMENT
COOLING SYSTEMS
DEMONSTRATION PROGRAMS
HEAT DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS
MARKETING
PLANNING
HEATING
MANAGEMENT
320603* - Energy Conservation
Consumption
& Utilization- Municipalities & Community Systems- Public Utilities- (1980-)
290800 - Energy Planning & Policy- Heat Utilization- (1980-)