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District heating has been for many decades a well-established industry for supplying heat in several countries. Surplus heat from power plants and industrial processes are used as well as recently renewable heat sources such as solar thermal, geothermal and heat from biomass combustion. The success of heating distribution to the final users depends significantly on the pipeline network. The need for understanding the response of buried heating pipeline systems has led to the development of a monitoring programme. This programme includes the design, construction and operation of the connection of an instrumented pipeline section to an operating local district heating network. Particular conditions were tested such as thickness of cushion materials, medium temperature ranges and bedding soil type. This unique instrumented pipeline allowed the analysis of initial results of temperature and pipe axial displacements, which are relevant for the district heating industry. It was found that when temperature increased from ambient conditions up to 90 °C, pipes were moving all along their length. Moreover, after a temperature drop from 90 to 20 °C during 20 days and subsequent increase to 90 °C again, axial displacements did not return to the same values as before.
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This work is part of ongoing research programmes on district heating by AGFW for the development and improvement of pipeline networks. The authors are especially grateful to the BMWi German Federal Ministry of Economics and Energy for this funding support (funding code: 03ET13335). The first author would like to greatly acknowledge the funding support granted by ZEIT Stiftung by means of an academic Fellowship at HafenCity University Hamburg.
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Villalobos, F., Hay, S., Weidlich, I. (2019). Monitoring in a District Heating Pipeline System. In: Ferrari, A., Laloui, L. (eds) Energy Geotechnics. SEG 2018. Springer Series in Geomechanics and Geoengineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99670-7_17
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