Wiki Introduction

• Welcome page

How to apply Hotmaps toolbox

• Guideline: Hotmaps toolbox on local level
• Guideline: Hotmaps toolbox on national level
• Training material

Data sets

• Hotmaps data set: Method of data collection
• Hotmaps open data repositories

General tool functionalities & structure

• Introduction to user interface
• Layers section in the Hotmaps toolbox
• Select a region in the Hotmaps toolbox
• Retrieve indicators of a selected area
• Access to calculation modules
• Database behind the Hotmaps toolbox
• Data upload functionalities
• Data export functionalities

Calculation modules (CM)

• CM - Customized heat and gross floor area density maps
• CM - Scale heat and cool density maps
• CM - Demand projection
• CM - Heat load profiles
• CM - District heating potential areas: user-defined thresholds
• CM - District heating potential: economic assessment
• CM - District heating supply dispatch
• CM - Decentral heating supply
  
• CM - Solar thermal and PV potential
• CM - Shallow geothermal potential
• CM - Heat sources potential
• CM - Biomass potential
• CM - Wind potential
• CM - Excess heat transport potential
• CM - Scenario assessment
• CM - User-defined excess heat potentials
• CM - Vehicle stock at NUTS 2 level

For Developers

• Developers section
• Guidelines for defining indicators

In a glance

This module aims to highlight the heatsource that can be classify as: suitable, conditionally suitable and not suitable for an energy exploitation at urban level.

Introduction

This module generates a shapefile classifying the heat source potential based on the distance of the heat source from the demand, and based on the capacity of the heatsource. Each heat source is classified in three main classes:

• suitable
• conditionally suitable
• not suitable.

The module automatize the methodology as defined by:

Neugebauer, Georg, Florian Kretschmer, René Kollmann, Michael Narodoslawsky, Thomas Ertl, and Gernot Stoeglehner. ‘Mapping Thermal Energy Resource Potentials from Wastewater Treatment Plants’. Sustainability 7, no. 10 (September 2015): 12988–13010. https://doi.org/10.3390/su71012988.

Inputs and outputs

Input layers and parameters are:

• Maximum distance to consider the heat source within the urban areas - (default value: 150m)
• Maximum distance to consider the heat source near the urban areas, all the areas above this threshold will be classified
• Heatsource capacity, default layer is the Waste Water Treatment Plants (WWTP) layer.

Output layers and parameters are:

• heatsource potential classification

Method

GitHub repository of this calculation module

Here you get the bleeding-edge development for this calculation module.

License

Copyright © 2016-2020: Pietro Zambelli

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 International License.

SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0

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Acknowledgement

We would like to convey our deepest appreciation to the Horizon 2020 Hotmaps Project (Grant Agreement number 723677), which provided the funding to carry out the present investigation.