District heating network maintenance planning optimization

oleh: Matteo Pozzi, Andrea Bettinelli, Fabrizio Detassis, Ettore Filippini, Simone Graziani, Stefano Morgione, Daniele Vigo

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: Elsevier 2021-10-01

Deskripsi

To ensure the correct functioning of district heating networks and minimize critical failures, utilities allocate every year a significant part of their budget to maintenance operations. In the present work we describe a risk-based approach implemented to tackle the problem of designing optimal multi-year maintenance campaigns, applied to the Italian city of Brescia, showing how data-driven techniques can help decision makers assess the long terms impacts of budget allocations.