Contribution of Integrated Green District Heating to the Sustainable CitiesrA Case Study of Ferrara, Italy
This study aims to provide brief introduction to district heating (DH) concept and its history; in addition current market situation is reviewed shortly. Ferrara (Italy) District Heating System, which is utilizing 83 ％ renewable sources for the purposes of heating and domestic hot water currently, is given as an example to understand how district heating systems contribute to the sustainability of cities. The strategic aspect of issue is to maximize benefits from local energy sources and to minimize environmental problems such as pollution emissions in the area. The avoided emissions in 2011 are estimated to NOx 48,000 kg, SO2 37,050 kg and CO2, 39,800 tons. The primary energy saving is 15,000 TOE and the primary resource factor (PRF) is decreased from 0.79 to 0.24 between 2008 and 2011. Other potential benefits, that are social and economic, also take place in this study to criticize the issue from a sustainability view. In conclusion, proposed farther developments in present system are criticized and some recommendations are provided in this paper.
District Heating Local Energy Ferrara Potential Benefits Primary Resource Factor(PRF)
Irem Aksulu Rongchang Wang
State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, Key Laboratory of Yangtze Aquatic Environment, Ministry of Education of China, UNEP-Tongji Institute of Environmental Sustainable Development, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University Shanghai, 200092, China
国际会议
三峡
英文
2259-2262
2012-05-18（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）