Method of clarification of consumer loads in district heating pipe network using data monitoring of heat energy consumption

Abstract

Currently, to set up heating networks, the programs to calculate the operating modes of networks are widely used. It requires a large number of characteristics of network objects and consumer loads, in particular. At the same time, in the real world, since it is difficult to determine design loads, they are often considered with large errors, and models are unsuitable for setting operating modes. Thus, an urgent task is to clarify the loads of consumers based on an audit of the existing network operation mode. The paper uses methods to calculate the load characteristics of buildings, methods to collect and monitor data of heat energy supply metering units and data to monitor the operating modes of the heat supply system of IGEU boiler house. A method to audit and clarify loads according to monitoring data of the heating system operation modes is proposed, which allows to improve the quality of network configuration. The obtained results have confirmed the possibility to clarify the loads of consumers under the conditions of an unregulated network based on the analysis of the readings of metering devices installed at consumers. The developed method can be used to solve the problems of setting up heating networks of district boiler houses.