Talk:District heating
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[edit] Looks encyclopedic to me
Because it can be photographed :) Well, I know that's only one criterion, yeah. But there is a whole story here with regard to centralised social provision in the UK, at least, that isn't quite just a matter of a dictionary entry. I'm also not quite clear what that tower I imaged does exactly, not being a hydraulic engineer, so something about the engineering would be good. Efficiency comparisions would be good too, plus I recollect that some of the Soviet schemes (I think some were implemented, actually) were designed to use nuclear reactor secondary coolant. Really needs an expert, this page. Tarquin Binary 12:55, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
- seems like an encyclopaedic article to me now - will delete transwiki note. I am sure it was a useful dicdef too, but as it has history can stay here. Justinc 00:15, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
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- needs some more categories though - can anyone work out what? dont know the engineering cats... Justinc 00:16, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] New York?
By what standard does "Consolidated Edison of New York (Con Ed) operate the largest commercial district heating system ever built"? http://www.energy.rochester.edu/dh/largest.htm ranks New York 9th, by annual heat sales. I'll be tagging that needing a citation for now.
By the way, http://www.energy.rochester.edu/dh/ contains a lot of useful material for anybody interested in improving this article. SGJ 20:09, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Teleheating
I made teleheating redirect here, it was a one sentence article with a very similar definition. It was also already copied to Wiktionary. Google search also shows that it is commonly used as a synomymom for district heating. Question is, is teleheating so well-known term that it is worth mentioning in this article? SGJ 20:14, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
- It would seem that the term is in some use. I have added it to the article. --DV8 2XL 20:33, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] More specifics
More specifics would be good here about district heating (and cooling) in terms of efficiency improvements, energy savings, use of biomass and general revitilization of outdated DH systems - promising area for technology upgrades and desirability due to improved environmental performance. Just an observation - there is a ton of material out there on this.
[edit] Technical description would be useful
For tech-oriented readers it would also be of interest to know more about some key technical aspects, e.g.
- typical and maximum lengths of the heat pipes
- typical temperatures of water/steam in feed and return pipes
- typical materials and thicknesses used for the pipes and insulation
- typical % of heat lost due to conduction (i.e. incomplete insulation of the pipes)
Typofier 17:26, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
Added average % heat losses for Norwegian distribution systems.(Matthew.homola (talk) 18:56, 17 April 2008 (UTC))
