wastewater network heatmapping

Why should you do Wastewater Network Heatmapping?
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Wastewater networks are collection systems for all the free waste heat that citizens everyday send ‘down their drains’.
Wastewater utilities have this heat, but it is just flushed away. Our buildings and industries can use heat energy, but these sectors don’t know where or how much wastewater heat is available within the city, and policy planners typically don’t know about wastewater heat recycling, so they simply ignore it in their planning processes.
For a sustainable world, we need to stop this massive heat energy waste and recycle wastewater heat via heatpumps to replace fossil fuels which are currently being burnt to generate heat.
Our experience has shown that once wastewater network heatmap information is freely available, good things happen.
The key to recycling this heat energy is bringing people together and getting them talking.
Wastewater network heat maps are like energy treasure maps and are the information bridge needed between the sectors to allow energy planning of low carbon cities

district heating modelling

Why should you do District Heating Modelling?
Scenario modelling allows different scenarios to be quickly assessed for providing heating to single buildings, or district heating systems to groups of buildings (e.g. University Campuses, Business Parks etc) or whole city blocks.
The scenario modelling incorporates information and variables such as:

• High level building data for each of the buildings being assessed (e.g. building height, footprint area, building usage etc).
• Different raw energy sources (e.g. electricity, biomass, gas, oil, coal, wasteheat with heatpumps), with their associated energy costs and carbon emissions.
  
• Capital investments needed and operating costs for each of the heating systems being considered, as well as capital costs for installing district heating pipework.
  
• Climate data for the location in question, based on Heating Degree Day values for baseline heating temperatures for the buildings being assessed.
• Allowing the model to consider systems with/without thermal storage integrated to see if the savings are worth the investment.
  
• Time horizons for the assessments, such as 30 years or 40 years or 50 years, as well as different NPV discount rates.

These are just some of modelling inputs. The full list is not provided here, but this modelling provides a comprehensive and unbiased database of information as a platform for city authorities to make energy planning and investment decisions on.