POLYETHYLENE OF RAISED TEMPERATURE (PE-RT) IN LOW TEMPERATURE DISTRICT HEATING SYSTEMS
Alex Stolarz, Klaus Grønnegaard Lauridsen
# 2021 Amsterdam
Low temperature District Heating – COOL DH – addresses the challenges of the upcoming decades in the energy sector for new housing developments. Energy efficiency is an important aspect of modern building construction. Improved building insulation and other technologies result in lower heat demand and enable new developments in heating systems like district heating. The project has gone an innovative path and developed pre-insulated pipe systems that operate at lower temperature – thus being more economical, effective and sustainable than conventional high temperature district heating systems – to address these new challenges. New materials such as PE-RT resins are explored in this segment that offer new installation techniques and allow for the first time the use of welding technologies in a wider scale in this industry sector. Resin capability is explained and explored, and the case study of this project is explained addressing challenges of modern energy management.
