Digital Twin for DISTRICT HEATING

District Heating Digital Twin designed to improve network management. It’s a virtual simulation of a physical heating network and data including consumer energy metering and smart remote control, heat energy demand forecast, real time thermal – hydraulic calculation, air temperature evaluation, flow temperature optimization, heat production planning and cost optimization.

Digital Twin benefits for District Heating:

• Accurate hourly forecast allows to control DH network in the most efficient way. Heat generation tasks are automatically generated and sent to the responsible staff. The task consists of set points for the temperature, flow, pressure and frequency converters settings.
• In both the generation and planning stages, the human factor is eliminated, which allows to reduce network maintenance costs and manage the network according to the calculated optimal mode for each hour.
• Optimal control of heating networks allows to reduce energy losses by 10%.