Brasser, Eva (2020) Heating Houses using Surface Water: A Sustainable Alternative to Natural Gas. Integration Project, Industrial Engineering and Management.
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Abstract
There is a crucial need for the Netherlands to reduce their natural gas consumption, as it has a large impact on our environment, due to CO2-emmisons. The housing stock is one area that consumes large amounts of natural gas, and thus must work towards reducing this, wherever possible. The easiest option is to insulate houses to reduce the energy demand for space heating. Unfortunately, this is not an option for the houses in the historic city centre of Groningen. Therefore, other solutions must be found to address this problem. This research proposes a solution to this problem by using surface water sourced from the canals surrounding the historic centre of Groningen, in order to heat the surrounding houses by means of a heat pump system. This solution was worked through by using different formulas, which allowed for the required parameters to be calculated in order to see whether the aforementioned solution is feasible. The questions that needs to be answered for this research are: a) Is their sufficient energy available to be extracted from the canals to meet the energy demand of the houses, and b) What is the most efficient manner of transferring this energy? The use of surface water in combination with a heat storage system appears to be the best option, both for the capacity of the water as well as the transferring of the energy to the houses. This system will ensure that there is always sufficient heat available from the canal water to heat houses year-r
| Item Type: | Thesis (Integration Project) |
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| Supervisor name: | Benders, R.M.J. and Taheri, M. |
| Degree programme: | Industrial Engineering and Management |
| Thesis type: | Integration Project |
| Language: | English |
| Date Deposited: | 13 Jul 2020 13:46 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Jul 2020 13:46 |
| URI: | https://fse.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/22610 |
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