Objective
In a small town of EURE department, Conches-en-Ouche, realisation of a heat network covering at 90% the needs of buildings (flats), a swimming-pool and a school.
The heating plant will burn humid wood waste produced by different sawmills in a range of 20 km around Conches.
Heat network connected to a new heating burning sawmill's waste at Conches-en-Ouche (EURE). This network will feed 6 buildings (dwelling buildings, school, swimming-pool, gymnasium) which consume 324 TOE per year. A wood-boiler will produce 90% of needed energy, involving 60% savings on energy and 32% on (energy + maintenance) cost.
Presently, in Haute-Normandie region, wood boilers only feed one installation: hospital, school and currently wood-transforming plants.
This project will permit to demonstrate, locally, the interest of connecting several buildings on a same heat network in order to install a bigger boiler and to substitute a larger quantity of fossil fuel.
The following aspects will be examined during the testing phase :
- Real cost in term of personal time of control and maintenance because of specialized operators ;
- Management of a large quantity of wood wastes delivered by several factories;
- Contribution of remote control system for the operation of the heatingplant and the sub-stations without a permanent operator presence, and the optimization of fossil fuel substitution.
The building and realization phases extend on 15 months and the following heating season is used for measurement phase.
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