New generation of Intelligent & Efficient District Cooling systems

Project Brief: 

INDIGO is a Horizon 2020 EU-funded project carried out by 6 partners from across Europe and 1 from the United Arab Emirates that aims to develop a more efficient, intelligent and economical generation of District Cooling (DC) systems by improving the existing system planning, control and management tools. This will be achieved through two specific objectives. The first one is to widen the use of DC systems and motivate the competitiveness of European DC market by the development of two open-source tools: a planning tool for DC systems with the aim of supporting their optimal design; and a modelling library with thermo-fluid dynamic models of DC System components which will provide the designers detailed information about their physical behaviour. The second objective is to reduce primary energy consumption. This will be addressed by a ground breaking DC system management strategy focused mainly on energy efficiency maximization and on energy cost minimization.

The main characteristic of this strategy is a predictive management capability. However, it will also address other challenges, such as the integration of different types of Energy Sources (including Renewables) and suitable coupling between generation, storage and demand. Intelligent and innovative component controllers (Predictive Controllers) will also be developed at all DC system levels. Some of them include embedded self-learning algorithms, allowing components to respond properly to the established set-points. In addition, open source tools and guidelines will be developed within the project in order to provide more confidence and, consequently, more openness when developing and using DC systems. INDIGO developments will be validated in a real District Heating and Cooling installation with appropriate conditions for testing the new functionalities. The project, coordinated by the Spanish institution VEOLIA, started in March 2016 and will last three and a half years.

New upload

Community


New generation of Intelligent & Efficient District Cooling systems

The main objective of INDIGO is the development of a more efficient, intelligent, and cheaper generation of District Cooling (DC) systems by improving system planning, control and management involving all components and levels of a DC system.

EU / H2020 Grant Agreement No.: 696098

Topic: EE-13-2015 - Technology for district heating and cooling

Starting date of project: 1st of March 2016

Duration: 42 months

Webpage:  www.indigo-project.eu

Read more
Curated by:
tatianaloureiro
Curation policy:

Papers and data related to the INDIGO project, funded under EU / H2020 Grant Agreement No.: 696098

Created:
March 21, 2017
Harvesting API:
OAI-PMH Interface

Want your upload to appear in this community?

  • Click the button above to upload a record directly to this community.
    To add one of your existing records to the community, edit the record, add this community under the "Communities" section, save, and finally publish.
  • The community curator will then be notified to either accept or reject your upload (see community curation policy below).
  • If your upload is rejected by the curator, it will still be available on Zenodo, just not in this community.