FOR GEOTHERMAL DISTRICT HEATING APPLICATIONS

Already since more than three decades high capacity centrifugal heat pumps are reducing CO2 emissions and are supplying hot water up to 90°C to district heating systems. In most cases the heat is recovered from low temperature heat sources like waste, river and sea water. However, with the centrifugal heat pump technology energy can also be exploited from high temperature heat sources like geothermal water. With an intelligent heat pump system the district heating return temperature can be boosted and at the same time the exploitation of the geothermal heat source can be increased. In this paper four examples of large centrifugal heat pumps in district heating applications using ground, water from the Neocomian and Dogger aquifers will be presented. The heating capacity of presented examples ranges from 5'000 to 8'650 kW