The B&O Bad Aibling Park, located in Bavaria, Germany, occupies a 173-acre (70 ha) facility that originally served as an airbase. Although the site buildings were in good repair, their thermal quality was poor. The district heating system was in good condition, but the scale of heat generation was too large. This project described in this paper designed a development plan that could be easily replicated and that could ultimately become a model for a zero energy city. The B&O Bad Aibling Park project employed a rich diversity of technologies that may be scaled up for application in larger urban areas. A biomass-fired boiler and a number of decentralized solar thermal facilities feed heat into an existing district heating grid in combination with grid-fed heat pumps that generate hot water individually in buildings and that use central and decentralized hot water storage tanks. This configuration allows the system to operate with low grid temperatures, and makes use of optimized energy efficiency measures while intensively harvesting solar energy. The B&O Park model project is a test bed, small enough so that it can address questions and problems in a purposeful way, yet large enough to set a standard that can be readily used in other urban areas or military installations.
Product Details
- Published:
- 2014
- Number of Pages:
- 8
- File Size:
- 1 file , 7.2 MB
- Product Code(s):
- D-NY-14-016
- Note:
- This product is unavailable in Russia, Belarus
