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Useful Steam - Heat Recovery

December 12th, 2018 By Ute de Groot

While the United Nations Climate Change Conference (UNFCCC) takes place from the 2^nd to the 14^th of December 2018 in Katowice, Poland, we have been investigating how district heating can contribute to the reduction of greenhouse gases.

Some modern systems are now using sustainable heating sources, like waste heat from power plants. Could this approach contribute to fight climate change?

We report from Western Turkey where the city of Soma is taking a new approach to increase energy efficiency in a residential area. The newly installed district heating system in combination with the use of the waste heat of a nearby power plant has been adapted to 4,000 buildings citywide and this is only the beginning...

Watch the video here: www.youris.com/energy/ecobuildings/useful-steam-heat-recovery.kl

More information:
The CITyFiED project aims to develop a replicable, systemic and integrated strategy to adapt European cities and urban ecosystems into the smart city of the future, focusing on reducing the energy demand and GHG emissions and increasing the use of renewable energy sources by developing and implementing innovative technologies and methodologies for building renovation, smart grid and district heating networks and their interfaces with ICTs and Mobility.

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