SHIELD - Sustainable Heat Integration: Enhancing District Heating with Low-Temperature and Waste Heat Sources
The SHIELD project addresses the critical need to enhance the sustainability and efficiency of district heating systems by integrating low-temperature and waste heat sources. Substantial untapped sources of low-temperature industrial waste heat sources鈥攕uch as data centres, sewage water, buildings, food stores, and鈥攃ould meet 10鈥�25% of the European heat demand for buildings, yet they remain significantly underutilised. SHIELD aims to decarbonize the heating and cooling sector, by building on existing knowledge and projects experience, identifying best practices, creating a platform that facilitates the dialogue among all relevant stakeholders and providing them with a comprehensive suite of planning tools, guidelines, business and financing models designed to support decision-making and implementation. These resources will address both technical (e.g., system integration, operational strategies) and socio-economic factors (e.g., business frameworks, stakeholder collaboration), and will be tested by frontrunner cities that are actively exploring LTWH integration, to facilitate SHIELD solutions鈥� improvement and identification of further replicators.
SHIELD aims to tackle these challenges through a structured approach that combines insights from European projects as well as local, national and international initiatives, identified as lighthouses, by examining existing success stories, the project will identify key drivers, barriers, and technical prerequisites for effective LTWH adoption. Collaborations with鈥痜rontrunner cities鈥痺ill provide practical insights into their needs, trough the dialogue with all stakeholders involved in the implementation process, named by the project as鈥痜ollowers, enabling the development and testing of tools, models, and guidelines tailored to real-world challenges.
Project Lead: Majid Bahrami, 51社区黑料Mechatronic Systems Engineering
Co-Creation Partners
Lund University
Outcomes
Addresses the critical need to enhance the sustainability and efficiency of district heating systems by integrating low-temperature and waste heat sources. Substantial untapped sources of low-temperature industrial waste heat sources鈥攕uch as data centres, sewage water, buildings, food stores, and鈥攃ould meet 10鈥�25% of heat demand for buildings, yet they remain significantly underutilised.