A Spanish laboratory managed by Acciona will be used to test the solutions developed by FLEXYNETS project with a focus on tri-generation technologies.
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The first phase of the three-year FLEXYNETS project will concentrate on developing the technology for low-temperature (10-20°C) district heating and cooling networks. In this phase a laboratory will be set up in the Technology Park in Bozen-Bolzano, simulating a small-scale district heating and cooling network. This will enable the simulation and testing of different control strategies as well as operating scenarios.
The Växjö Energi district heating system in Rottne (Sweden) is the second largest high temperature distribution network in Rottne, Växjö. It makes up about 10,300 metres with a total volume of about 64 m³.
Son Llatzer is a hospital situated in Palma de Mallorca (Balearic Islands, Spain) that gives public health assistance to more than 200.000 patients per year with a staff of more than 1500 people.
In 2011 in the surrounding area of Son Llàtzer a tri-generation plant for electricity was installed to supply the hospital and other facilities. The tri-generation plant supplies hot water for air conditioning and sanitary water, and cold water only for air conditioning.
The district heating and cooling (DHC) system in Luleå (Sweden) supplies 31,000 households with heating and cooling on a daily basis. The heat is manly produced at a CHP plant close to the city center. It supplies the base heat production of 185 MW to the grid and gets the fuel (e.g. flue gas) from a neighboring steel plant.
The building that will be renovated within the TRIBE project is the first building of Ozyegin University. Even though it is a very sophisticated building with LEED Gold certificate, it is almost 30% below the targeted energy use, mainly because of the problems with automation, sun shades and under prediction of residence behavior.
There are four pilot buildings in the Zaragoza (Spain) demonstration project.
Pilot 1 – CIRCE headquarters
It is a zero emission building constructed in 2010 dedicated to R+D+I activities, including laboratories and offices. The total area is 1,743 m2.
More than 250 people work at the Technopole, ENTROPY's demo site in Sierre (Switzerland), which is composed of 50 enterprises including HES-SO research institutes' labs and offices, a restaurant, a fitness room and multiple classrooms. Technopole’s energy system is composed of two microgrids based on solar energy since Sierre is the sunniest city in Switzerland. The 1,200 m2 photovoltaic panels produce 207 kWp of solar energy.
The demonstration site of the ENTROPY project in Murcia (Spain) is the campus of The University of Murcia (UMU), one of the biggest universities of Spain. UMU is located in the Region of Murcia, with over 439,712 inhabitants, and it has a population of 40,000 people: students, services personnel, etc with three main campuses and several facilities deployed throughout different cities.
The demonstration site of ENTROPY in Pisa (Tuscany, Italy) is the Navacchio Technology Park. It was born in 2000 from the restoration of an old industrial settlement and now covers an area of 18,000 square meters with almost 60 high-tech companies (ICT, energy and environment, microelectronics and robotics) and approximately 500 employees.
