Meitingen: Industrial Waste Heat in the Neighborhood
The town of Meitingen, in collaboration with an industrial company, is commissioning a cold local heating network to supply a new development area directly adjacent to the factory premises. The newly planned neighborhood will be supplied with heat via a pipe network.
Effectiveness and flexibility
This involves supplying water at a temperature of approx. 31°C from the process cooling system within the industrial company’s production facility. In the past, this heat had to be dissipated into the environment via cooling systems, which was very power-intensive. Decentralized heat pumps operate in the individual buildings in the district, raising the temperature level accordingly. Due to the high network temperature, the heat pumps operate very effectively, with high coefficients of performance.
Buffer or stratified storage tanks are installed locally in the buildings alongside the heat pumps so that renewable electricity can be used for the heat pumps as flexibly as possible. The project was named the 2017 flagship project by the KUMAS environmental network. The SiMon energy management software is used as the overarching control system, monitoring and controlling the entire generation facilities.
